

Rex Ingram
Birthday
October 20, 1895 (73 years)
Place of Birth
Cairo, Illinois, USA
Known For
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, his presence and powerful voice became an asset and he went on to memorable roles in The Green Pastures (1936), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (the 1939 MGM version), The Thief of Bagdad (1940—perhaps his best-known film appearance—as the genie), The Talk of the Town (1942), and Sahara (1943). From 1929, he also appeared on stage, making his debut on Broadway. He appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions, with his final role coming in Kwamina in 1961. He was in the original cast of Haiti (1938), Cabin in the Sky (1940), and St. Louis Woman (1946). He is one of the few actors to have played both God (in The Green Pastures) and the Devil (in Cabin in the Sky). In 1966 he played Tee-Tot in the movie Your Cheatin' Heart. Ingram was arrested for violating the Mann Act in 1948. Pleading guilty to the charge of transporting a teenage girl to New York for immoral purposes, he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. He served just ten months of his sentence, but the incident had a serious effect on his career for the next six years. In 1962, he became the first African-American actor to be hired for a contract role on a soap opera, when he appeared on The Brighter Day. He had other work in television in the 1950s and 1960s. Rex Ingram died of a heart attack at the age of 73. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Rex Ingram Movies & TV-shows on Netflix
Movies with Rex Ingram
The Ten Commandments
Oct 5, 1956
Sahara
Sep 22, 1943
The Thief of Bagdad
Feb 19, 1940
Elmer Gantry
Jul 7, 1960
The Talk of the Town
Aug 20, 1942
The King of Kings
Apr 19, 1927
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Feb 10, 1939
God's Little Acre
Sep 23, 1958
The Ten Commandments
Nov 23, 1923
Emperor Jones
Sep 29, 1933
Tarzan of the Apes
Jan 27, 1918
Hurry Sundown
Feb 9, 1967
TV shows with Rex Ingram
Kraft Television Theatre
May 7, 1947
The Rifleman
Sep 30, 1958
Climax!
Oct 7, 1954
Gunsmoke
Sep 10, 1955
The Bill Cosby Show
Sep 14, 1969
Branded
Jan 24, 1965
Black Saddle
Jan 10, 1959
Daktari
Jan 11, 1966
Daktari
Jan 11, 1966
Sam Benedict
Sep 15, 1962
Cowboy in Africa
Sep 11, 1967
Cowboy in Africa
Sep 11, 1967