Med Hondo

Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid Hondo, 4 May 1936 – 2 March 2019) was a Mauritanian movie director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. 
 Biography 

He moved to France in 1959 and began to work in movies during the 1960s. In 1967, critics praised for the first movie he directed, Soleil O. It won a Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Italy. When American movies are dubbed into French, Hondo often plays the French version of a character. For example, he played the French version of Eddie Murphy's character Donkey in Shrek.

Hondo died in Paris on 2 March 2019, aged 82.
Filmography
Director
1967: Soleil O
1974: Les 'bicots-Nègres' vos voisins (Arabs and Niggers, Your Neighbours)
1975: Sahel la faim pourquoi
1979: West Indies
1986: Sarraounia
1994: Lumière noire (Black Light)
1998: Watani, un monde sans mal
2004: Fatima, l'Algérienne de Dakar

Actor
1964: Les verts pâturages
1965: Bob Morane as Notomi (television series; two episodes)
1965: Belphégor as Gaillac (television series)
1965: Seule à Paris (television series)
1966: Retour à Bacoli as Un tirailleur (television series)
1967: Un homme de trop as Florent
1968: Tante Zita as James
1969: A Walk with Love and Death as Entertainer
1974: Aux frontières du possible as doctor Sosian Cisse (television series)
1975: Jo Gaillard as Carlos (television series)
1977: The Ambassadors as Med
1989–1991: Commissaire Moulin as Max (television series; three episodes)
1990: 1871 as Karl Marx
1997: La divine poursuite as the pilot
2000: Antilles sur Seine as Horace
2003: Funky Cops as Ace (television series; voice)
2006: Asterix and the Vikings as pirate lookout (voice)
2006: Incontrôlable as Rex (voice)

Dubbing
1982: Gandhi as Ben Kingsley's Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1984: Best Defense as Eddie Murphy's Lieutenant T.M. Landry
1994: The Lion King as Rafiki
1995: Se7en as Morgan Freeman's Detective Lt. William Somerset
1996: The Nutty Professor as Eddie Murphy's Sherman Klump
2001: Samurai Jack as Aku
2001: Shrek as Eddie Murphy's Donkey
2003: Xiaolin Showdown as Dojo
2004: Shrek 2 as Donkey
2007: Shrek the Third as Donkey
2010: Shrek Forever After as Donkey

References

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Category:1936 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:Mauritanian people
Category:Movie actors
Category:Movie directors
Category:Movie producers
Category:Screenwriters
Category:Television actors
Category:Voice actors