Hadj Cheriff

Hadj Cheriff was both an Arabian knife juggler and an acrobat. He had little to do with filmmaking of any sort, as his debut was in the 1894 Edison short film "Hadj Cheriff" which features him performing part of his act in Edison's Black Maria studio. Cheriff later appeared in another Edison film, "Arabian Gun Twirler" from 1899. These two shorts ...