Rex Ingram was an Irish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director".
Ingram, c. 1920
Ingram at work with Ralph Lewis, Rudolph Valentino, and his wife, Alice Terry, on the set of The Conquering Power
Ingram working on the set of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema.
Stroheim in 1946
Erich Von Stroheim caricature by John Held Jr.
Stroheim, c. 1920
Stroheim as Sergius Karamzin in Foolish Wives, 1922