People
Habib Benglia
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
Movies:
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 as The false mahradja's valet | 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 |