Rex Ingram

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Personal Info

Known for

Acting

From

Cairo, Illinois, USA

Born

10/20/1895

Age

129

Credit(s)

38

Biography

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 ...Show More