Rex Ingram

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1892-01-15 (58 years old)

Deathday

1950-07-21

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Rex Ingram

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1923

Mary of the Movies

as (uncredited)

1915

Snatched from a Burning Death

as Chandler, the lover

1915

The Evil Men Do

as Margaret's Companion

1932

Baroud

as André Duval

1926

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

as Charles Stewart Parnell

Production

1918

Humdrum Brown

as Director

1926

The Magician

as Director

1926

The Magician

as Producer

1926

The Magician

as Adaptation

1923

Scaramouche

as Director

1920

1915

1922

1921

1926

Mare Nostrum

as Director

1924

The Arab

as Director

1917

Black Orchids

as Director

1921

1916

Broken Fetters

as Screenplay

1923

Scaramouche

as Producer

1932

Baroud

as Director

1932

Baroud

as Writer

1928

1932

Baroud

as Director

1932

Baroud

as Producer

1927

1917

Black Orchids

as Scenario Writer

1923

1916

1917

1922

1922

Trifling Women

as Director

1922

1916

Broken Fetters

as Director

1916

Broken Fetters

as Scenario Writer

1916

1916

The Great Problem

as Scenario Writer

1917

The Reward of the Faithless

as Scenario Writer

1928

1929

L'évadée

as Art Direction

1929

L'évadée

as Producer

1924

The Arab

as Writer

1917

1917

1922

1917

1917

1916

1919

The Day She Paid

as Director

1920

Shore Acres

as Director

1920

1926

Mare Nostrum

as Producer

1917

1926

The Magician

as Screenplay

1915

1915

The Wonderful Adventure

as Scenario Writer

1915

Should a Mother Tell

as Scenario Writer

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