Rex Ingram

Rex Ingram

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]

  • Title: Rex Ingram
  • Popularity: 2.195
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1895-10-20
  • Place of Birth: Cairo, Illinois, USA
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Rex Ingram Movies

  • 1942
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    The Talk of the Town

    The Talk of the Town

    7.3 1942 HD

    Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a...

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  • 1923
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    The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments

    6.564 1923 HD

    The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden...

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  • 1940
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    The Thief of Bagdad

    The Thief of Bagdad

    7.093 1940 HD

    When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...

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  • 1948
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    Moonrise

    Moonrise

    6.2 1948 HD

    Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most...

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  • 1944
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    Dark Waters

    Dark Waters

    5.9 1944 HD

    Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters...

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  • 1958
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    God's Little Acre

    God's Little Acre

    6.1 1958 HD

    In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related...

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  • 1933
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    The Emperor Jones

    The Emperor Jones

    5.786 1933 HD

    Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a...

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  • 1968
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    Journey to Shiloh

    Journey to Shiloh

    5.4 1968 HD

    At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

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  • 1943
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    Sahara

    Sahara

    7.2 1943 HD

    In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a...

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  • 1961
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    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    1 1961 HD

    A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

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  • 1956
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    The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments

    7.757 1956 HD

    Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal...

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  • 1955
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    Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

    Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

    4.9 1955 HD

    Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.

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  • 1964
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    Your Cheatin' Heart

    Your Cheatin' Heart

    6.3 1964 HD

    The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.

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  • 1939
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    6.412 1939 HD

    Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

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  • 1936
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    The Green Pastures

    The Green Pastures

    6.3 1936 HD

    God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black...

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  • 1918
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    Tarzan of the Apes

    Tarzan of the Apes

    5.318 1918 HD

    A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and...

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  • 1934
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    Harlem After Midnight

    Harlem After Midnight

    1 1934 HD

    Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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  • 1943
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    Cabin in the Sky

    Cabin in the Sky

    6.3 1943 HD

    When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

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  • 1967
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    Hurry Sundown

    Hurry Sundown

    6.5 1967 HD

    Post-WWII, a corporation seeks Georgia farmland, but two owners—a white veteran and a black man—refuse to sell, forming an alliance...

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  • 1959
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    Watusi

    Watusi

    5.7 1959 HD

    Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given...

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  • 1956
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    Congo Crossing

    Congo Crossing

    5.2 1956 HD

    Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from...

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  • 1958
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    Anna Lucasta

    Anna Lucasta

    6.2 1958 HD

    The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent acquaintance out of greed.

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  • 1941
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    The Gay Knighties

    The Gay Knighties

    1 1941 HD

    A Puppetoon by George Pal.

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  • 1944
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    Jasper's Paradise

    Jasper's Paradise

    1 1944 HD

    Jasper goes to heaven in this George Pal Puppetoon.

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  • 1943
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    Fired Wife

    Fired Wife

    4.8 1943 HD

    A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

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  • 1927
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    The King of Kings

    The King of Kings

    6.431 1927 HD

    The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in...

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  • 1973
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    The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1929
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    The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers

    4.4 1929 HD

    An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.

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  • 1939
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    Let My People Live

    Let My People Live

    1 1939 HD

    Aimed at African Americans and shot at Tuskegee University, this film instructs viewers in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by focusing...

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  • 1960
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    Desire in the Dust

    Desire in the Dust

    4 1960 HD

    Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile...

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  • 2008
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    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    7 2008 HD

    Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

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  • 1947
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    Shoe Shine Jasper

    Shoe Shine Jasper

    1 1947 HD

    George Pal shines a shoes while fairy godmother visits him.

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  • 1959
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    Escort West

    Escort West

    5.6 1959 HD

    Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose...

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  • 1946
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    John Henry and the Inky-Poo

    John Henry and the Inky-Poo

    5.9 1946 HD

    In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice...

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  • 1945
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    A Thousand and One Nights

    A Thousand and One Nights

    5.6 1945 HD

    On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it...

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  • 1960
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    Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry

    7.254 1960 HD

    When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her...

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  • 1945
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    Adventure

    Adventure

    6.2 1945 HD

    A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

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  • 1941
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    Hoola Boola

    Hoola Boola

    9 1941 HD

    Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. Soon a tribe of cannibals kidnap him. A Puppetoon animated short film.

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  • 1962
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    Sam Benedict

    Sam Benedict

    6 1962 HD

    Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack...

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1958
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    The Rifleman

    The Rifleman

    7 1958 HD

    The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It...

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  • 1959
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    Black Saddle

    Black Saddle

    6 1959 HD

    Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The...

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

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  • 1965
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    Branded

    Branded

    6.4 1965 HD

    Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern...

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  • 1947
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    Kraft Television Theatre

    Kraft Television Theatre

    7.333 1947 HD

    Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series

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  • 1967
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    Cowboy in Africa

    Cowboy in Africa

    5 1967 HD

    Cowboy in Africa was an American Broadcasting Company television series produced during 1967-1968 by Ivan Tors and featuring Chuck Connors as the...

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  • 1966
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    Daktari

    Daktari

    7 1966 HD

    Daktari is an American children's drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The series, an Ivan Tors Films Production in association with...

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  • 1967
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    Cowboy in Africa

    Cowboy in Africa

    5 1967 HD

    Cowboy in Africa was an American Broadcasting Company television series produced during 1967-1968 by Ivan Tors and featuring Chuck Connors as the...

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  • 1966
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    Daktari

    Daktari

    7 1966 HD

    Daktari is an American children's drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The series, an Ivan Tors Films Production in association with...

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  • 1969
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    The Bill Cosby Show

    The Bill Cosby Show

    5.036 1969 HD

    The Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday night schedule from 1969 until 1971, under the...

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