Filmmaker · Mauritania
Med Hondo
Died in 2019
Med Hondo, whose real name was Mohamed Abid, was born in 1935, in Atar according to most sources; the son of a Mauritanian woman and a Senegalese man, he grew up in Mauritania, left for Rabat to learn cookery at a hotel school, then reached France in 1959. A cook, docker and delivery man in Marseille and then in Paris, he took Françoise Rosay's classes and in 1966, with the Guadeloupean Robert Liensol, founded a company devoted to Black authors. He made his living from dubbing, lending his French voice to Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman. He died in Paris on 2 March 2019.