Biography
Rex Ingram (20 October 1895 – 19 September 1969) was an American stage, film and television actor. He was born near Cairo, Illinois, graduated from Northwestern University medical school in 1919 and was the first African-American man to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from the university.
Ingram made his screen debut in Tarzan of the Apes (1918) and went on to appear in films including The Green Pastures (1936), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) as the genie, The Talk of the Town (1942) as Tilney, and Sahara (1943). He also had a substantial stage career, making his Broadway debut in 1929 and appearing in more than a dozen productions, among them the original casts of Haiti (1938), Cabin in the Sky (1940) and St. Louis Woman (1946).
