Rex Ingram

Rex Ingram

Acting 1895-10-20 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. 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]

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2008 Djinn (archival footage)
1973 Self (archive footage)
1969 George
1968 Jacob
1967 Prof. Thurlow
1967 Dr. Tom Merar
1967 Nhinga
1966 Chief Makubu
1966 Natoma
1965 Hannibal - Valet
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1964 Teetot
1962 Judge Larkin
1961 Self (archive footage)
1960 Burt Crane
1960 Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
1959 Umbopa
1959 Nelson Walker
1959 Alex Booth
1958 Uncle Felix
1958 Joe Lucasta
1958 Thaddeus
1956 Bit Part (uncredited)
1956 Dr. Leopold Gorman
1955 Sukulu Chieftain
1955 Juba
1954 Petraca
1948 Mose
1947 (voice)
1946 Narrator / John Henry (voice)
1945 Giant
1945 Preacher (unconfirmed)
1944 Pearson Jackson
1944 (voice)
1943 Sgt. Maj. Tambul
1943 Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
1943 Charles
1942 Tilney
1941 Narrator (voice)
1941 Narrator (voice)
1940 Djinn
1939 Dr. Gordon
1936 De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
1933 Court Crier
1929 Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
1927 (uncredited)
1923 Israelite Slave (uncredited)
1918 (uncredited)