Simba: The King of the Beasts (1928): Cast

The 1928 American black‑and‑white silent documentary, directed by the husband‑and‑wife team Martin and Osa Johnson, chronicles their four‑year trek across the Kenyan veld in pursuit of a lion named Simba. The film records the couple’s observations of the pride’s habits and culminates with a dramatic encounter at the animal’s lair.

• OJ Osa Johnson as themselves
• ME Martin E. Johnson as themselves