Orlando Martins
ụdịekere | nwoke |
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mba o sị | Naijiria |
aha enyere | Orlando |
aha ezinụlọ ya | Martins |
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 8 Disemba 1899 |
Ebe ọmụmụ | Lagos |
Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya | 25 Septemba 1985 |
Ebe ọ nwụrụ | Lagos |
ọrụ ọ na-arụ | omee |
ebe agụmakwụkwọ | Eko Boys High School |
Orlando Martins | |
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Faịlụ:Actor Orlando Martins.jpg | |
Born | Emmanuel Alhandu Martins 8 Disemba 1899 Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria |
Died | 25 Sepụtemba 1985 Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria | (aged 85)
Other names | Pa Orlando Martins (Epega family great-uncle) "Black Butcher Johnson" |
Occupation | Film and stage actor |
Years active | 1931–71 |
Relatives | Ros Martin (niece) |
. [1]Orlando Martins audio Listen (help·info) (8 Disemba 1899 - 25 September 1985) bụ onye ọsụ ụzọ ihe nkiri na onye na-eme ihe nkiri Yoruba Naijiria . [1] [2] N'ọgwụgwụ 1940s, ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị na-eme ihe nkiri ojii ama na Britain, [3] na ọhụrụ aka emere na 1947, ndụ ya n'etiti ndị na-eme ihe nkiri 15 kacha Britain
Ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si][2]A akwụkwọ ya dị ka Emmanuel Alhandu Martins na Okesuna Street, [1] Lagos, Nigeria, nye nna onye ọrụ obodo nwere ike na Brazil na nne Nigeria. Martins bụ onye ikwu Benjamin Epega. N'afọ 1913, o debara aha ya na Eko Boys High School mana ọ ndị.
. [3]N'oge Agha Mbụ Mbụ, ọ jere ozi dị ka onye na-agba ọsọ na RMS Mauretania iji megwara obi German na ya. Mgbe agha biri, ọ kwagara Lọndọn; Mgbe ọ bịarutere na 1919, o nweghị isi ihe na-akpata ego, ọ na-akpatakwa ụzọ isi kpata ego. N'otu oge ahụ, ụlọ ihe nkiri Lyceum nọ na-achọ "supers" na-ekiri shilling atọ kwa ụbọchị. Martins sonyeere ụlọ ihe nkiri ahụ wee si ebe ahụ ọrụ ihe nkiri dị iche iche iji dị ndụ. N'afọ 1923, Sanger's Circus enwe inwe onye ga- python, Martins weere òkè ya, ọrụ ọrụ ya na-eme egwuregwu. Ọ rụkwara ọrụ dị ka onye mgba mgba (nke a mara dị ka "Black Butcher Johnson").
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si][4]N'afọ 1920, Martins so na ụlọ ọrụ ballet Diaghilev na-emekọ ihe, ma soro ụlọ ọrụ Britain nke Show Boat na-eme njem dị ka onye na-abụ abụ abụ. Ọ bụ onye mgbakwunye na fim ndị gbachiri ozi, ebe o mere mpụta mbụ ya na If Youth But Mara (1926). [1] Na 1930s ọ ihe na-eme ihe na London ogbo, na-egwu Boukman na Toussaint Louverture: Akụkọ nke naanị Nnupụisi Ohu Na-aga nke Ọma na Akụkọ, ihe nkiri 1936 nke CLR James mere nke onye na-eme ihe. nkiri America-American Paul Robeson, [2] ya na Martins. egosila na fim Sanders of the River nke 1935.
[5]agha ahụ, Martins nwere onye ọrụ ihe nkiri na Nwoke si Morocco (1945) na ndị ikom nke mgbe ụwa abụọ (1946), n'ụdị Robert Adams, ekiri onye na-eme ihe nkiri na-achọsi ike nke Peter Noble igwe na 1948 dị ka "ogologo, Ọ dị ike nke onye olu bass miri emi, enyi na enyi, onye nwoke ọbịa na onye nwere nnukwu ọchị." [1] Noble gara n'ihu ikwu banyere Martins: "Ọ nwere ikike dị ukwuu na ntọala nke Negro Theater na London. Dị ka ọ na-arị, sị: 'Ọ bụrụ na nke a na-ahụ mgbe ọ ga-a-nne Ị bụghị na nanị Negro talent na ụlọ ihe nkiri ọ ala nwere ike. a ga-egosi ụwa, ma a na-aga n'ihu na-arụ ọrụ maka talent a nke na-aga n'ihu ugbu a n'ụzọ dị mwute. '
Ọ fim na ihe nkiri 1949 The Hasty Heart (nke na-eme Ronald Reagan na Patricia Neal ), na-egwu dike Africa Blossom, nke ọrụ Martins mekwara na ike ogbo. [1] N'afọ 1950, o mere ihe ngosi ndị ọzọ na ọkwa London, ndị na-ekiri nke Cry, the Beloved Country ( Trafalgar Square Theatre, 1954), na Onye òtù nke Wedding ( Royal Court Theater, 1957), tupu ọ si Lagos na 1959. [1] O mechara ọrụ na fim ndị dị ka Killers of Kilimanjaro (1960), Call Me Bwana (1963), Mister Moses (1965), na Kongi's Harvest (1970, Wole Soyinka's adaptation of his egwu otu aha).
Ọnwụ na ihe nketa
[dezie | dezie ebe o si][3]Martins nwụrụ na 1985 mgbe ọ dị afọ 85 na Lagos, ebe e liri ya na Ikoyi Cemetery .
. [6]Ọ bụ isiokwu nke akwụkwọ 1983 nke Takiu Folami dere, nke aha ya bụ Orlando Martins, The Legend: ihe mere eme nke ụwa mbụ acclaimed African film omee
[7] [8]Onye na-ede egwuregwu na Bristol bụ Ros Martin na-egosi ma na-ahụ ihe gbasara Martins, nna nna ya
Ihe nkiri
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Afọ | Aha | Ọrụ | Ihe ndetu |
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1935 | Sanders nke Osimiri | Klova | Ekwughị ya |
1937 | Green Cockatoo | Ekwughị ya | |
1945 | Nwoke Morocco | Jeremaya | |
1946 | Ndị ikom nke Ụwa Abụọ | Magole | |
1947 | Ọgwụgwụ nke Osimiri | Harrigan | |
1949 | Obi Ngwa ngwa | Okooko | |
1954 | West nke Zanzibar | M'Kwongi | |
1953 | Obi nke Okwu ahụ | Ụkọchukwu Clay | Ekwughị ya |
1954 | West nke Zanzibar | M'Kwongwi | |
1955 | Simba | Onye isi | |
1956 | Safari | Jerusalem | |
1957 | Hapụ ụgbọ mmiri | Sam Holly | |
1957 | Tarzan na Safari efu | Chief Ogonooro | |
1958 | Ụwa gba ọtọ | Onye ebo, onye na-ebu ya | |
1959 | Safaịre | Barman | |
1959 | Akụkọ nke Nun | Kalulu | |
1960 | Ndị na-egbu Kilimanjaro | Onyeisi | |
1963 | Sammy na-aga South | Abu Lubaba | |
1963 | Kpọọ m Bwana | Onyeisi | |
1965 | Onye isi ala Moses | Onyeisi | |
1970 | Owuwe ihe ubi Kongi | Dr. Gbenga | |
1971 | Ihe na-adaba [9] | Obierika | (ọrụ ihe nkiri ikpeazụ) |
Ntụaka
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ Al Monroe, "Swinging the News," Chicago Defender, 18 October 1947, p. 19.
- ↑ "Orlando Martins, Hollywood’s first Yoruba Actor", Yoruba 365, 12 November 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television, London: Continuum, 2001; chapter 7, "Robert Adams and Orlando Martins: Men of Two Worlds", pp. 76–80.
- ↑ "Orlando Jones", AFI Catalog.
- ↑ Peter Noble, The Negro In Films, Skelton Robinson, 1948, p. 178; quoted in Bourne (2001), p. 78.
- ↑ Folami (1983). Orlando Martins, the Legend: An Intimate Biography of the First World Acclaimed African Film Actor. Executive Publishers. ISBN 9789782383006.
- ↑ Ros Martin. Bristol 2014. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved on 23 July 2022.
- ↑ What's Happening in Black British History? IV - Ros Martin. Institute of Commonwealth Studies (7 April 2016). Retrieved on 23 July 2022.
- ↑ Filmportal. "Things Fall Apart".