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Rex Ingram
Acting
Biography
Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1969) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Ingram graduated from the Northwestern University medical school in 1919 and was the first African-American man to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from there. He went to Hollywood as a young man where he was literally discovered on a street corner by the casting director for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), starring Elmo Lincoln. He made his (uncredited) screen debut in that film and had many other small roles, usually as a generic black native, such as in the Tarzan films.
With the arrival of sound,…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
as Djinn (archival footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
Journey to Shiloh
as Jacob
Hurry Sundown
as Prof. Thurlow
Your Cheatin' Heart
as Teetot
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
Elmer Gantry
as Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
Desire in the Dust
as Burt Crane
Escort West
as Nelson Walker
Watusi
as Umbopa
TV Shows
The Bill Cosby Show
as George · 1 ep.
Cowboy in Africa
as Dr. Tom Merar · 1 ep.
Daktari
as Chief Makubu · 1 ep.
Branded
as Hannibal - Valet · 1 ep.
Sam Benedict
as Judge Larkin · 1 ep.
Black Saddle
as Alex Booth · 1 ep.
The Rifleman
as Thaddeus · 1 ep.
Gunsmoke
as Juba · 1 ep.
Climax!
as Petraca · 1 ep.
Kraft Television Theatre
as Lem · 1 ep.
