Rex Ingram
Actor
Born October 20, 1895 in Cairo, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
The Bill Cosby Show
George
Journey to Shiloh
Jacob
Cowboy in Africa
Dr. Tom Merar
Hurry Sundown
Prof. Thurlow
Daktari
Chief Makubu
Branded
Hannibal - Valet
Your Cheatin' Heart
Teetot
Sam Benedict
Judge Larkin
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Desire in the Dust
Burt Crane
Elmer Gantry
Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
Watusi
Umbopa
Escort West
Nelson Walker
Black Saddle
Alex Booth
Anna Lucasta
Joe Lucasta
The Rifleman
Thaddeus
God's Little Acre
Uncle Felix
The Ten Commandments
Bit Part (uncredited)
Congo Crossing
Dr. Leopold Gorman
Gunsmoke
Juba
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Sukulu Chieftain
Climax!
Petraca
Moonrise
Mose
Kraft Television Theatre
Lem
Shoe Shine Jasper
(voice)
John Henry and the Inky-Poo
Narrator / John Henry (voice)
Adventure
Preacher (unconfirmed)
A Thousand and One Nights
Giant
Dark Waters
Pearson Jackson
Sahara
Sgt. Maj. Tambul
Fired Wife
Charles
Cabin in the Sky
Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
The Talk of the Town
Tilney
The Gay Knighties
Narrator (voice)
Hoola Boola
Narrator (voice)
The Thief of Bagdad
Djinn
Let My People Live
Dr. Gordon
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jim
The Green Pastures
De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
Harlem After Midnight
Emperor Jones
Court Crier
The Four Feathers
Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
The King of Kings
(uncredited)
The Ten Commandments
Israelite Slave (uncredited)
Tarzan of the Apes
(uncredited)