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Habib Benglia

Born
Aug 25, 1895 · Aged 65
Died
Dec 2, 1960
Place of birth
Oran, Algeria
Gender
Male
Movie credits
28
TV credits
0
Also known as (1)
  • حبيب بنجليا

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…