Biography

The African actor Bambula (real name Wilhelm Murphy-Bamboula) took part as an actor in few movies of 1919. He impersonated King Makombe in "Die Herrin der Welt - 4. Teil" directed by Joseph Klein and Uwe Jens Krafft at the side of Mia May, Michael Bohnen, Henry Sze, Louis Brody, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Bruno Decarli, Ernst Hofmann, Victor Janson, Hans Mierendorff and Paul Morgan. In Johannes Guter's "Ewiger Strom" he played a black millionaire. To his co-stars belonged Vladimir Agayev, Werner Krauss, Marija Leiko, Heinrich Peer and F. W. Schröder-Schrom. It followed "Fräulein Zahnarzt" with Wilhelm Diegelmann, Charles Willy Kayser, Mia May, Hermann Picha and Otto Reinwald.