Habib Benglia
Birthday
1895/08/25
Day of death
1960/12/02 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Oran, Algeria
Also know as
حبيب بنجليا
Biography
Habib Benglia, born August 25, 1895 in Oran (Algeria) and died December 2, 1960 at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris 4th, is a French actor and dancer. He was the first black French artist to experience such success in the 1920s. Married, he was the father of two children. Born to caravan parents, originally from Mali (then called French Sudan), he lived his entire childhood in Timbuktu, before arriving, with his parents, in mainland France to deliver camels to the acclimatization garden where t...Read more
Acting
(1932) Storm of Marrakech
as ---
(1932) You Will Be a Duchess
as ---
(1937) The Secrets of the Red Sea
as ---
(1936) Les Gaietés du palace
as False mahradja's valet
(1936) Nitchevo
as ---
(1938) Les Rois de la flotte
as ---
(1938) Mon curé chez les riches
as (uncredited)
(1940) African Diary
as ---
(1947) Le Bateau à soupe
as Le nègre
(1948) The Figurehead
as The black
(1932) Dainah the Mixed
as Le mari
(1938) Hatred
as ---
(1955) A Missionary
as ---
(1960) Some Like It... Cold
as ---
(1945) Children of Paradise
as L'employé des bains turcs
(1931) Alone
as L'Hindou
(1936) Le Roman d'un spahi
as Nyaor
(1935) Mysteries of Paris
as Le docteur noir
(1938) Tempête sur l'Asie
as ---
(1937) Grand Illusion
as Le sénégalais
(1955) Native Drums
as ---
(1948) La Renégate
as Youssef
(1960) Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Le noir molesté (uncredited)
(1937) L'empreinte rouge
as ---
(1950) La Danseuse de Marrakech
as Taraor
(1927) Yasmina
as ---
(1958) Tamango
as The Black Chief
(1931) La Femme et le rossignol
as The Chief