Med Hondo

Biography

Med Hondo was a Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. He emigrated to France in 1959 and began to work in film during the 1960s. He received critical acclaim for his 1967 directorial début Soleil O. Son vrai nom est Mohamed Abid né le samedi 4 mai 1935, à Ain Beni Mathar au Maroc et décédé le samedi 2 mars 2019 à l'âge de 83 ans au 14ème arrondissement de Paris.

Directed

1. Soleil O (1973) — Director
2. West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) — Director
3. Sarraounia (1986) — Director
4. The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors (1974) — Director
5. Hunger Of The World (1981) — Director
6. Watani: A World Without Evil (1998) — Director
7. Black Light (1994) — Director
8. We shall have the whole of death to sleep (1977) — Director
9. Polisario, a people in arms (1979) — Director
10. Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar (2004) — Director
11. Ballade aux sources (1965) — Director
12. My Neighbours (1971) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Asterix and the Vikings (2006) — La vigie (voice)
2. Masculin Féminin (1966) — Man in the Subway (uncredited)
3. Incontrôlable (2006) — Rex (voice)
4. Shock Troops (1967) — Florent
5. A Walk with Love and Death (1969) — Entertainer
6. Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre (1965) — Gaillac
7. Antilles sur Seine (2000) — Horace
8. 1871 (1990) — Karl Marx
9. Zita (1968) — James
10. The Gods Must Be Daring (1997) — Le pilote
11. Funky Cops (2002) — Ace Anderson
12. Police Commissioner Moulin (1976) — Max, le joueur de saxo
13. The Spiral (1976) — Narrator (voice)
14. The Ambassadors (1975) — Med
15. Spike (2009) — Raymon (voice)
16. Safrana or Freedom of Speech (1978) — Narrator (voice)
17. La Tragédie du Roi Christophe (1965) — Magny
18. Les verts pâturages (1964) — St Pierre
19. L'Année des Guignols - J'y arrive pas (1997) — Pierre Diouf (voice)
20. The Making of West Indies (1979) — Self
21. Môl (1966) — Narrator
22. Med Hondo – Rebel African Film-maker (2022) — Self
23. Ouaga (1988)
24. Artaud (1966)