Rex Ingram

Rex Ingram

October 20, 1895

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…

Known For

10 titles
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The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

1940 · 1h 46m · Movie

After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

7.4
2
Sahara

Sahara

1943 · 1h 37m · Movie

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

7.5
3
The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

1942 · 1h 58m · Movie

An escaped prisoner must prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with help from a spirited schoolteacher.

7.5
4
Cabin in the Sky

Cabin in the Sky

1943 · 1h 38m · Movie

A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.

7.1
5
Moonrise

Moonrise

1948 · 1h 30m · Movie

Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.

7.0
6
God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre

1958 · 1h 58m · Movie

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their f...

6.5
7
The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones

1933 · 1h 12m · Movie

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

6.4
8
The Green Pastures

The Green Pastures

1936 · 1h 33m · Movie

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

7.0
9
Anna Lucasta

Anna Lucasta

1958 · 1h 37m · Movie

A young woman struggling with a sordid past finds that her biggest enemy had larger demons than she did.

6.8
10
A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights

1945 · 1h 33m · Movie

Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.

6.0