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Habib Benglia
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Habib Benglia
Homepage
http://www.spla.pro/fr/fiche.personnes.spla.4127.html
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-08-25,Oran, Algeria
Gender
Male
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 Flory, who introduced him to Cora Laparcerie, director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance. Mobilized for the First World War, he then joined Firmin Gémier's theater company which ended up at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon with Gaston Baty in 1922. Benglia was thus the first black to play roles from the classical repertoire, and he found himself also performing the title role of The Emperor Jones at the Odéon in 19234, at the age of 27. However, he explored other aspects of his art: dance, revues, vaudeville... Theater in all its forms remained his passion for more than 36 years. It was primarily through theater that he played a major role in Parisian cultural life between the wars. Benglia was also interested in cinema, but French cinema hardly offered him good roles. He is most often found in small roles in second-rate films, but also in a few colonial propaganda films, sometimes in ridiculously exotic roles. A few exceptions: Benglia stars in “Daïnah La Métisse”, he has interesting passages in “Sola ou Les Mystères de Paris”, then he makes a brief appearance in “Les Enfants du Paradis”, a film in which he only worked two days (December 5 and 6, 1943). In total, he appeared in around sixty films. It was the range of his deep voice which was most remarkable and which determined the roles entrusted to him. He died on December 2, 1960 at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris.

Filmography

Storm of Marrakech

10

Storm of Marrakech
1932-01-08

You Will Be a Duchess

8

You Will Be a Duchess
1932-02-12

The Secrets of the Red Sea

10

The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937-09-08

Les Gaietés du palace

9

Les Gaietés du palace
1936-12-11

10

Nitchevo
1936-12-18

Les Rois de la flotte

9

Les Rois de la flotte
1938-10-19

Mon curé chez les riches

6

Mon curé chez les riches
1938-12-21

6.4

African Diary
1940-06-25

Le Bateau à soupe

7.5

Le Bateau à soupe
1947-02-19

8

The Figurehead
1948-06-16

Dainah the Mixed

6.733

Dainah the Mixed
1932-08-19

7.35

Hatred
1938-01-26

10

A Missionary
1955-12-02

Some Like It... Cold

5.6

Some Like It... Cold
1960-02-17

Children of Paradise

8.052

Children of Paradise
1945-03-15

10

Alone
1931-02-13

Le Roman d'un spahi

5.9

Le Roman d'un spahi
1936-03-27

Mysteries of Paris

10

Mysteries of Paris
1935-10-13

Tempête sur l'Asie

9

Tempête sur l'Asie
1938-04-20

7.859

Grand Illusion
1937-06-04

10

Native Drums
1955-09-09

9.5

La Renégate
1948-04-09

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

6.357

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960-12-16

L'empreinte rouge

7

L'empreinte rouge
1937-03-19

La Danseuse de Marrakech

10

La Danseuse de Marrakech
1950-04-19

10

Yasmina
1927-02-11

7.045

Tamango
1958-01-24

La Femme et le rossignol

10

La Femme et le rossignol
1931-03-13