Director

Rex Ingram

Directing

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Directed movies: 24Directed series: 0All crew credits: 29

TMDB ID: 71786

IMDb ID: nm0002271

Known for: Directing

Born: January 15, 1892

Died: July 21, 1950

Age: 58

Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1913 - 1932

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 6.33

Wikidata: Q1750696

Also known as

Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock • Rex Hitchcock

Frequent jobs

Director (24)Scenario Writer (2)Art Direction (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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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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