Med Hondo

Med Hondo , of its true name Mohammed Abid Hondo , is a Réalisateur and Acteur French of origin Mauritanian. But, much more than its face, it is its voice, French lining of that of Eddie Murphy until in 1997, which is famous.

Biography

Med Hondo was born the May 4th 1936 with Atar, quoted lost in the middle of the solid masses of the Adrar in Mauritania. One of his/her grandmothers is originating in the Mali, his/her father is originating in the the Sahara Occidental. It settles in France in 1959. Docker initially (just like the Senegalese scenario writer Sembène Ousmane), then cook, it discovers the Théâtre at this time and is registered with the courses of dramatic art at Francoise Rosay where it plays as actor in many parts (Shakespeare, Tchekhov, Kateb Yacine, Aimé Césaire, Brecht, etc), then takes part in the creation of the African Comité of the scenario writers , to found a little later, in 1966, his own troop Griotshango .

He also initiates himself with the cinema while turning two court-measurings: Strolls with the sources and Partout or perhaps nowhere . He plays in particular in two films, a man of too of Costa Gavras, in 1966, and Promenade with the love and death of John Huston, in 1969.

In 1965, it writes the scenario of Sun O , a film which it then carries out with a very restricted budget, the actors were voluntary, on the condition of the immigrant workmen, that it finishes in 1969. Defined by the author like “10 years of gaullism seen by the eyes of an African in Paris”, it gains various prices and is selected with prohibited Cannes but thereafter, for diplomatic reasons, in various countries.

Without letting itself cut down, Med Hondo continues its work of realizer, examining the Colonialisme and the Post-colonialism. In 1973 leaves Bicots Nègres your neighbors , always on the topic of the life of the immigrants and racism to France.

In 1977, it makes a film on the fight of the Front Polisario, We will have all death to sleep .

In 1979, it reconsiders from there to its initial topic with West Indies, the maroon negros of freedom , an account slavery and colonialism in the the Caribbean. Hondo qualifies itself the film of " tragi-comic variety ".

In 1986, it takes down the Grand Prix of Fespaco to the Burkina Faso and the price of best film to the festival of London with Sarraounia .

Finally 8 years later, in 1994, leaves its last film black Lumière .

In 2003, it puts in scene the play war the 2000 year old of Kateb Yacine.

Beside all that, it is also producing Acteur and and directs the Société of the actors, realizers and producers French .

Catalog of films

Realization

Trotts with the sources (short-measuring)
  • 1969: King de Cordes (short-measuring)
Everywhere else perhaps nowhere (short-measuring)
  • 1973: Bicots-negros, your neighbors
My Neighbors (short-measuring)
  • 1975: the Sahel hunger why? (documentary)
  • 1976: We will have all death to sleep
  • 1978: Polisario, people arms with it
  • 1979: West Indies or maroon negros of freedom
  • 1986: Sarraounia
  • 1994 : black Light
  • 1998: Watani, a world without evil
  • 2004: Fatima, the Algerian one of Dakar (short-measuring)

Actor

Television

1965: Only in Paris (TV)
Gaillac in Belphégor or the Phantom of Louvre (TV)
Adventures of Bob Morane - episode jewels of the Maharajah (TV)
  • 1966: a rifleman in Return to Bacoli (TV)
  • 1974: At the borders of possible the - episode: the last rampart (TV)
  • 1975: Carlos in Strong OJ (TV)
  • 1989: max, the player of sax in Police chief Mill, judicial police (TV)

Selective Voxography

If it is generally associated with Eddie Murphy, it also should be noted that in the Seventies and Eighties, Med Hondo spoke on behalf of a very great number of actors black, generally American, such as Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed in the series of the Rocky), Ernie Hudson in S.O.S Phantoms, Gregory Hines in the Insane History of the world or Fred Williamson in M.A.S.H. or Johnny Barrows, inter alia multiple examples. Med Hondo on the occasion to reverse with humor this tacit statute of " appointed lapping machine of the actors noirs" in the film the Last Dragon, of Michael Schultz, according to a scenario of Berry Gordy. In this film, mixing Kung Fu and Musical comedy, where the essence of the distribution is made up black actors, Hondo lends its voice to the one of the rare white characters of film, malicious interpreted by Mike Starr. Another remarkable voxologic anecdote: Med Hondo is perhaps the only actor to have doubled the same character in a film and its Remake: Ben, the courageous hero of the Night of Death-Alive the, that at the same time in the version of origin (directed in 1968 by George Romero, where the character was interpreted by Duane Jones), but also in the remake of 1990, carried out by Tom Savini (where Ben was incarnated by Tony Todd).

Films

and Eddie Murphy in the majority of its films, until a change of lapping machine in 1997.

Televised series

Series of animation

External bonds

  • an interview about Black Light, Sarraounnia and of the realization of African films today
  • MedHondo.com
  • very complete Catalog of films of Med Hondo

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