Habib Benglia

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Habib Benglia

Born 1895-08-25 Oran, Algeria 28 films

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 came…

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Filmography

28 films
Tamango poster

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African sla…

Tamango

★ 7.0 1958

Native Drums poster

A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sicknes…

Native Drums

★ 10.0 1955

The Figurehead poster

At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehea…

The Figurehead

★ 8.0 1948

La Renégate poster

In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita…

La Renégate

★ 9.5 1948

African Diary poster

During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the…

African Diary

★ 6.4 1940