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 his own choosing, often with his then-wife Alice Terry. In his later career he acted as a mentor to the young Michael Powell.
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Movies (39)
Baroud
Writer (Writing)
1932
Baroud
as André Duval
1932
L'évadée
Producer (Production)
1929
The Three Passions
Director (Directing)
1928
The Garden of Allah
Director (Directing)
1927
The Magician
Director (Directing)
1926
Mare Nostrum
Director (Directing)
1926
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as Charles Stewart Parnell
1926
The Arab
Director (Directing)
1924
Scaramouche
Director (Directing)
1923
Mary of the Movies
as (uncredited)
1923
Where the Pavement Ends
Director (Directing)
1923
Trifling Women
Writer (Writing)
1922
The Prisoner of Zenda
Director (Directing)
1922
Turn to the Right
Director (Directing)
1922
The Conquering Power
Director (Directing)
1921
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Director (Directing)
1921
Hearts Are Trumps
Director (Directing)
1920
Under Crimson Skies
Director (Directing)
1920
Shore Acres
Director (Directing)
1920
The Day She Paid
Director (Directing)
1919
Humdrum Brown
Director (Directing)
1918
His Robe of Honor
Director (Directing)
1918
The Little Terror
Story (Writing)
1917
The Flower of Doom
Director (Directing)
1917
The Pulse of Life
Director (Directing)
1917
The Reward of the Faithless
Director (Directing)
1917
Black Orchids
Director (Directing)
1917
The Chalice of Sorrow
Director (Directing)
1916
Broken Fetters
Screenplay (Writing)
1916
The Great Problem
Director (Directing)
1916
The Galley Slave
Writer (Writing)
1915
The Wonderful Adventure
Scenario Writer (Writing)
1915
The Song of Hate
Writer (Writing)
1915
Should a Mother Tell
Scenario Writer (Writing)
1915
Snatched from a Burning Death
as Chandler, the lover
1915
The Evil Men Do
as Margaret's Companion
1915
The Moonshine Maid and the Man
1914
Beau Brummel
1913