Orlando Martins (8 December 1899 – 25 September 1985) was a pioneering Nigerian film and stage actor. In the late 1940s, he was one of England's most prominent and leading black actors,and in a poll conducted in 1947, he was listed among England's top 15 favourite actors.
Martins was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a civil servant 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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| Orlando Martins in The Hasty Heart, alongside Ronald Reagan who later became a President of the United States of America. |
After returning back to Lagos in 1959, he subsequently took roles in such films as Killers of Kilimanjaro (1960), Call Me Bwana (1963), Mister Moses (1965), and Kongi's Harvest (1970, Wole Soyinka's adaptation of his play of the same name).
Martins died in 1985 at the age of 85 in Lagos, where he was buried at Ikoyi Cemetery.
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