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]
Tilney
Film 1942
Israelite Slave (uncredited)
Film 1923
Djinn
Film 1940
Pearson Jackson
Film 1944
Uncle Felix
Film 1958
Court Crier
Film 1933
Sgt. Maj. Tambul
Film 1943
Self (archive footage)
Film 1961
Bit Part (uncredited)
Film 1956
Sukulu Chieftain
Film 1955
Teetot
Film 1964
Jim
Film 1939
De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
Film 1936
(uncredited)
Film 1918
Film 1934
Umbopa
Film 1959
Joe Lucasta
Film 1958
Narrator (voice)
Film 1941
(voice)
Film 1944
Charles
Film 1943
(uncredited)
Film 1927
Self (archive footage)
Film 1973
Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
Film 1929
Dr. Gordon
Film 1939
Djinn (archival footage)
Film 2008
(voice)
Film 1947
Nelson Walker
Film 1959
Narrator / John Henry (voice)
Film 1946
Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
Film 1960
Preacher (unconfirmed)
Film 1945
Narrator (voice)
Film 1941
Petraca
Tv 1954
Alex Booth
Tv 1959
Hannibal - Valet
Tv 1965
Lem
Tv 1947
Nhinga
Tv 1967
Natoma
Tv 1966
Dr. Tom Merar
Tv 1967
Chief Makubu
Tv 1966
Judge Larkin
Tv 1962