Rex Ingram
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 director Michael Powell.
Acting
Movie
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
as Charles Stewart Parnell
1926
Movie
Baroud
as André Duval
1933
Movie
Mary of the Movies
as (uncredited)
1923
Movie
Snatched from a Burning Death
as Chandler, the lover
1915
Movie
The Evil Men Do
as Margaret's Companion
1915
Movie
Beau Brummel
1913
Movie
The Moonshine Maid and the Man
1914
Crew
Movie
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Director
1921
Movie
The Magician
Director
1926
Movie
The Prisoner of Zenda
Director
1922
Movie
Scaramouche
Director
1923
Movie
Mare Nostrum
Director
1926
Movie
The Conquering Power
Director
1921
Movie
The Three Passions
Director
1928
Movie
The Arab
Director
1924
Movie
Trifling Women
Director
1922
Movie
Black Orchids
Director
1917
Movie
Baroud
Director
1932
Movie
Baroud
Director
1933