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Habib Benglia

Habib Benglia
  • Name: Habib Benglia
  • Birthday: 1895-08-25
  • Also known as: حبيب بنجليا
  • Place of birth: Oran, Algeria
  • Popularity: 0.057
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 the exhibition was held. colonial "Les Nègres", in 1912. He decided to stay in France and began his career in 1913, both in theater and in cinema, after having met the actress and dancer Régine... Read More

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Title Release date
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century   as  Le noir molesté (uncredited) 1960-12-16
Some Like It... Cold 1960-02-17
Tamango   as  The Black Chief 1958-01-24
A Missionary 1955-12-02
Native Drums 1955-09-09
La Danseuse de Marrakech   as  Taraor 1950-04-19
The Figurehead   as  The black 1948-06-16
La Renégate   as  Youssef 1948-04-09
Le Bateau à soupe   as  Le nègre 1947-02-19
Children of Paradise   as  L'employé des bains turcs 1945-03-15
African Diary 1940-06-25
Mon curé chez les riches   as  (uncredited) 1938-12-21
Les Rois de la flotte 1938-10-19
Tempête sur l'Asie 1938-04-20
Hatred 1938-01-26
The Secrets of the Red Sea 1937-09-08
Grand Illusion   as  Le sénégalais 1937-06-04
L'empreinte rouge 1937-03-19
Nitchevo 1936-12-18
Les Gaietés du palace 1936-12-11
Le Roman d'un spahi   as  Nyaor 1936-03-27
Mysteries of Paris   as  Le docteur noir 1935-10-13
Dainah the Mixed   as  Le mari 1932-08-19
You Will Be a Duchess 1932-02-12
Storm of Marrakech 1932-01-08
The woman and the nightingale   as  le chef de tribu 1931-03-13
Alone   as  L'Hindou 1931-02-13
Yasmina 1927-02-11