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Rex Ingram
  • Birth Name:
    Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock
  • Date of Birth:
    January 15, 1892
  • Place of Birth:
    Dublin, Ireland
  • Place of Death:
    North Hollywood, California
  • Date of Death:
    July 21, 1950
  • Cause of Death:
    Cerebral Hemorrhage
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

Rex Ingram
  • Spouse:
    Doris Pawn
    Alice Terry

Career

Rex Ingram

Trivia

Rex Ingram
  • He also wrote two novels, "Mars in the House of Death" and "The Legion Advances".
  • For his contribution to the motion picture industry he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street.
  • In 1949, the Directors Guild of America bestowed an Honorary Life Membership on him.
  • Rex Ingram's films were considered by many contemporary directors to be artistic and skillful, with an imaginative and bold visual style.
  • He worked for Edison Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Vitagraph Studios, and then MGM, directing mainly action or supernatural films.
  • His first work as producer-director was in 1916 on the romantic drama "The Great Problem".
  • He emigrated to the United States in 1911.
  • Legendary director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director."
  • Was a film director, producer, writer and actor.

Biography

Rex Ingram
Last Updated: Friday, August 28, 2009
Rex Ingram started 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.

Filmography

Rex Ingram

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