Biography
A WWI veteran who later studied law at the University of Texas, tough-looking Jack Ingram began his long show business career as a minstrel player and later reportedly toured with
Mae West. He began turning up playing scruffy henchmen and assorted other B-Western villains in the mid-'30s and was later the featured heavy in Columbia serials. Ingram would go on to appear in a total of 200 Westerns and approximately 50 serials in a career that later included appearances on such television programs as
The Cisco Kid and
The Lone Ranger. Many of his later films and almost all his television Westerns, including the
Roy Rogers and
Gene Autry shows, were filmed on Ingram's own 200-acre ranch on Mulholland Drive in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking Woodland Hills, which he had purchased from
Charles Chaplin in 1944 and which remains a wilderness today. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide