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At The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Rex Ingram finally made the break into film direction, starting with the short film, The Symphony of Souls, with Robert Z. Leonard and Ella Hall, released in 1914 by one of Universal’s subsidiary companies, The Rex Motion Picture Company.
With his striking looks, commanding presence and powerful voice, Rex Ingram made a name for himself both in films and on Broadway, and later worked in television. Born in Illinois along the Mississippi River in 1895, Ingram was a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School and became the...
Nov 11, 2014 · Rex Ingram, the film director and not the actor, is largely forgotten today. But at one time, next to De Mille, Griffith, and von Stroheim, the handsome Irish-born Ingram was considered one of cinema’s most brilliantly creative and sought-after directors of the 1920s.
Rex Ingram started his film career as a set designer and painter. His directorial debut was The Great Problem (1916). A true master of the medium, Ingram despised the business haggling required in the Hollywood system. He was also unhappy with the level of writing he found in American writers. This led him to work with such foreign writers as Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, which resulted in the ...
"Rex Ingram" published on by null. (1895–1969).Stage, film, and television performer. An imposing, deep-voiced actor-singer, the tall, muscular African American played in everything from musical revues to absurdist plays.
