Orlando Martins

Orlando Martins was a pioneering Nigerian film and stage actor. In the late 1940s, he was one of Englands most prominent and leading black actors, and in a poll conducted in 1947, he was listed among Englands topfavourite actors.

Martins was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a civil servant Brazilian father. He was related to the Benjamin Epega family. In 1913 he was enrolled in Eko Boys High School but dropped out. During World War I he served as a stoker on the RMS Mauretania to avenge German cruelty to his family.

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