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 de...
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Storm of Marrakech
You Will Be a Duchess
The Secrets of the Red Sea
Les Gaietés du palace
Nitchevo
Les rois de la flotte
Mon curé chez les riches
As (uncredited)
African Diary
Le Bateau à soupe
As Le nègre
The Figurehead
As The black
Dainah the Mixed
As Le mari
Hatred
A Missionary
Some Like It... Cold
Children of Paradise
As L'employé des bains turcs
Alone
As L'Hindou
Le Roman d'un spahi
As Nyaor
Mysteries of Paris
As Le docteur noir
Tempête sur l'Asie
Grand Illusion
As Le sénégalais
Native Drums
La Renégate
As Youssef
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
As Le noir molesté (uncredited)
L'empreinte rouge
La Danseuse de Marrakech
As Taraor
Yasmina
Tamango
As The Black Chief
The woman and the nightingale
As le chef de tribu