Rex Ingram (director)
| Rex Ingram | |
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Ingram, c. 1920
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| Born |
Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock 15 January 1892 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 21 July 1950 (aged 58) North Hollywood, California |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, writer and actor |
| Years active | 1913–1933 |
| Employer |
Edison Studios Fox Film Corporation Vitagraph Studios MGM Metro Gaumont British |
| Known for |
Broken Fetters (1916) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) The Conquering Power (1921) The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) Trifling Women (1922) Scaramouche (1923) Where the Pavement Ends (1923) The Arab (1924) Mare Nostrum (1926) The Magician (1926) The Garden of Allah (1927) The Three Passions (1929) |
| Spouse(s) |
Doris Pawn (m. 1917–20) Alice Terry (m. 1921–50) |
| Relatives | Francis Clere Hitchcock (brother) |
| Honors | Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street |
Rex Ingram (15 January 1892 – 21 July 1950) was an Irish film director, producer, writer and actor. Director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director."
Born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock in Dublin, Ireland, he was educated at Saint Columba's College, near Rathfarnham, County Dublin. He spent much of his adolescence living in the Old Rectory, Kinnitty, Birr, County Offaly where his father was the Church of Ireland rector. He emigrated to the United States in 1911.
His brother Francis joined the British Army and fought during World War I where he was awarded the Military Cross and rose to the rank of Colonel.
Ingram studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He soon moved into film, first taking acting work from 1913 and then writing, producing and directing. His first work as producer-director was in 1916 on the romantic drama The Great Problem. He worked for Edison Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Vitagraph Studios, and then MGM, directing mainly action or supernatural films.
In 1920, he moved to Metro, where he was under supervision of executive June Mathis. Mathis and Ingram would go on to make four films together, Hearts are Trump, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Conquering Power, and Turn to the Right. It is believed the two were romantically involved. Ingram and Mathis had begun to grow distant when her new find, Rudolph Valentino, began to overshadow his own fame. Their relationship ended when Ingram eloped with Alice Terry in 1921.
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