Jack_Ingram_(actor)

Jack Ingram (actor)

Jack Ingram (actor)

American actor


John Samuel Ingram (November 15, 1902 February 20, 1969) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in many serials and Westerns between 1935 and 1966.

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Biography

Ingram served in the U.S. Army in France. After leaving the military, he gave up plans to study law and instead joined a traveling minstrel show. He acted in stock theater with several companies before going into film. Ingram first appeared on screen in a bit part of Westward Ho (1935). His first film credit came in the serial Zorro Rides Again (1937).[1]

In addition to acting, Ingram was a stuntman, working with horses and cars in films in the early 1930s.[2]

He was born in Frankfort, Illinois, and died in Canoga Park, California, of a heart attack. He was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. Ingram also acquired a movie ranch in 1944; several Western films were shot there.[3]

In 1944, Ingram married Eloise Fullerton.[4]

Selected appearances

Film

Serials

TV shows


References

  1. Mayer, Geoff (2017). Encyclopedia of American Film Serials. McFarland. p. 157. ISBN 9780786477623. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  2. Freese, Gene Scott (2014). Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s–1970s: A Biographical Dictionary, 2d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476614700. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  3. "Jack Ingram Western Movie Ranch". Movie Making Locations. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  4. Ayres, Betty (September 12, 1954). "Former Lansingite Helps Build 'Old West' Town in California". Lansing State Journal. Michigan, Lansing. p. 45. Retrieved May 13, 2020 via Newspapers.com.

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