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 Michael Powell.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(Director)
Humdrum Brown
(Director)
The Magician
(Director)
The Magician
(Producer)
The Magician
(Adaptation)
Scaramouche
(Director)
Under Crimson Skies
(Director)
The Song of Hate
(Writer)
The Prisoner of Zenda
(Director)
The Conquering Power
(Director)
Mare Nostrum
(Director)
The Arab
(Director)
Where the Pavement Ends
(Director)
Black Orchids
(Director)
The Conquering Power
(Producer)
Broken Fetters
(Screenplay)
Scaramouche
(Producer)
Baroud
(Director)
Baroud
(Writer)
The Three Passions
(Director)
Baroud
(Director)
Baroud
(Producer)
The Garden of Allah
(Director)
Black Orchids
(Scenario Writer)
Where the Pavement Ends
(Adaptation)
The Chalice of Sorrow
(Director)
The Chalice of Sorrow
(Writer)
The Flower of Doom
(Director)
The Prisoner of Zenda
(Producer)
Trifling Women
(Director)
Trifling Women
(Writer)
Broken Fetters
(Director)
Broken Fetters
(Scenario Writer)
The Great Problem
(Director)
The Great Problem
(Scenario Writer)
The Reward of the Faithless
(Director)
The Reward of the Faithless
(Scenario Writer)
The Three Passions
(Writer)
L'évadée
(Art Direction)
L'évadée
(Producer)
The Arab
(Writer)
The Little Terror
(Director)
The Little Terror
(Story)
Turn to the Right
(Director)
The Pulse of Life
(Director)
The Pulse of Life
(Writer)
The Great Problem
(Writer)
The Day She Paid
(Director)
Shore Acres
(Director)
Hearts Are Trumps
(Director)
Mare Nostrum
(Producer)
The Flower of Doom
(Writer)
The Magician
(Screenplay)
The Galley Slave
(Writer)
The Wonderful Adventure
(Scenario Writer)
Should a Mother Tell
(Scenario Writer)
Should a Mother Tell
(Story)