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Rex Ingram

Director, Editor, Producer, Writer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born January 15, 1892Died July 21, 1950 (58 years)
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 first major role for the young Rudolph Valentino. Ingram was a great friend of Erich von Stroheim, who, like Ingram, was a great filmmaker, but often went way over budget.

In 1924, Ingram moved to Nice, France, where, in his own studios, he directed films of his own choosing, often with his then-wife Alice Terry. In his later career he acted as a mentor to the young Michael Powell.

Known For

  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  • The Magician
  • Scaramouche
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
  • The Conquering Power
  • Love in Morocco
  • Baroud
  • The Garden of Allah

Rex Ingram Filmography

1924

1932
Love in Morocco · as André Duval
1914
Her Great Scoop · as Horace Bryson
1913
1913

1932
Love in Morocco · as Adaptation
1926
The Magician · as Adaptation

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