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Habib Benglia (25 August 1895 – 2 December 1960) was a French film actor. He was the first French-African actor to land major roles in both cinema (he acted in Renoir and Pujol movies among others) and theater (performing in over 100 plays).
Habib Benglia, né le 25 août 1895 à Oran ( Algérie) 1 et mort le 2 décembre 1960 à l' hôpital Hôtel-Dieu à Paris 4 e 2, est un acteur et danseur français. Il est le premier artiste noir français à connaître autant de succès dès les années 1920.
- 2 décembre 1960 (à 65 ans)Paris, France
- Française
- 25 août 1895Oran, Département d'Oran, Algérie
- Acteur
Habib Benglia was born on 25 August 1895 in Oran, Oran, France [now Algeria]. He was an actor, known for Children of Paradise (1945), La Confession (1959) and Tu seras Duchesse (1932). He died on 2 December 1960 in Paris, France.
- Actor
- August 25, 1895
- Habib Benglia
- December 2, 1960
In 1923 the Algerian actor Habib Benglia played an uncanny Emperor Jones for the nation that colonized his own.1 On the stage of Paris's Odeon Theatre, one of France's most esteemed national performance venues, the French-speaking Benglia—a colonized subject—assumed the role of a colonizer (Brutus Jones) in a play that has been central.
Aug 25, 2023 · Arrivé à Paris en 1912, où il devait livrer des dromadaires à la tristement célèbre exposition coloniale "Les Nègres", présenté au jardin d'acclimatation, Habib Benglia décida de rester à la...
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.
Jul 29, 2014 · Today, I would like to talk about Habib Benglia, one of the pioneers of Black theater and cinema in France. Habib Benglia was an African artist born in Oran, Algeria, on 25 August 1895. He was originally from Mali, and lived in Timbuktu throughout his childhood.
