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name: "Mutia Omoolu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mutia-omoolu"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T21:49:30.700131+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mutia Omoolu

Actor. Born in Machakos, Kenya.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/739674

## Biography

Mutia Omoolu was a Kenyan actor. He played Rencharo, gun bearer to the title character, in the 1931 adventure film *Trader Horn*, directed by W.S. Van Dyke.

Born in 1890 in Machakos, Kenya, he was cast during the production's extensive location filming in Africa and was later brought to Hollywood for reshoots at MGM studios. *Trader Horn* was among the first non-documentary Hollywood features shot on location in Africa. His appearance in the film remains his only documented screen credit.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, kenyanhistory.home.blog.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Trader Horn* (1931), Fi1m 58, as Rencharo — [page](https://film.one/film/trader-horn.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Trader Horn* (1931), as Rencharo — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/trader-horn.md)

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