Orlando Martins

Orlando Martins Listen  (8 ga watan Disambar shekarar 1899 - 25 ga watan Satumbar shekarar 1985) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Yarbawa na kasar Najeriya na farko. A ƙarshen shekarar 1940s, ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin fitattun ƴan wasan baƙar fata na Biritaniya, Harry Levette, "This is Hollywood". Chicago Defender, 10 September 1949, p. 25. kuma a cikin zaɓen da aka gudanar a shekarar 1947, an jera shi cikin manyan ƴan wasan kwaikwayo 15 na yankin Biritaniya. Al Monroe, "Swinging the News," Chicago Defender, 18 October 1947, p. 19.

 Rayuwa 
An haife shi a matsayin Emmanuel Alhandu Martins a Okesuna Street,garin Lagos, kasar Nigeria, ga mahaifin ma'aikacin gwamnati mai tushe a Brazil kuma mahaifiya sa yar kasar Najeriya. Martins yana da alaƙa da dangin Benjamin Epega. A shekarar 1913, an shigar da shi makarantar sakandare ta Eko Boys amma ya bar makarantar. "Orlando Martins, Hollywood’s first Yoruba Actor" , Yoruba 365, 12 November 2014.

A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai tuƙi a kan RMS <i id="mwJA">Mauretania</i> don rama zaluncin Jamus ga danginsa. Bayan kammala yakin, ya koma Landan; a lokacin da ya isa a shekarar 1919, ba shi da hanyar samun kudin shiga kuma dole ne ya nemi hanyoyin samun kuɗi. Kusan lokaci guda, gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Lyceum yana neman "supers" akan farashin shilling uku kowace rana. Martins ya shiga gidan wasan kwaikwayo kuma daga nan ya ɗauki ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo daban-daban don tsira. A cikin shekarar 1923, Sanger 's Circus ya so ya sami wanda zai nuna python, Martins ya ɗauki bangare, ya fara aikinsa a cikin circus. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin kokawa (wanda aka sani da "Black Butcher Johnson"). 

 Sana'a 
A cikin shekarar 1920, Martins ya kasance ƙarin aiki tare da kamfanin ballet na Diaghilev, kuma yana kan yawon shakatawa tare da kamfanin Burtaniya na Show Boat a matsayin ƙwararren mawaƙi. Ya kasance ƙari a cikin fina-finai na shiru, wanda ya fara fitowa a cikin If Youth But Know (1926).  A cikin shekarar 1930s ya shiga wasan kwaikwayo a matakin London, yana wasa Boukman a cikin Toussaint Louverture: Labarin Tawayen Bawa Kawai Nasara a Tarihi, wasan kwaikwayo na 1936 na CLR James wanda ya nuna ɗan wasan Ba'amurke ɗan Afirka Paul Robeson, C. L. R. James, Christian Høgsbjerg, Laurent Dubois, Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts, Duke University Press, 2012, p. 25. tare da Martins. ya fito a cikin fim din Sanders na Kogin a shekarar 1935. "Orlando Jones", AFI Catalog.

Bayan yakin, Martins yana da rawar fim a cikin Mutum daga Maroko shekarar (1945) da kuma a cikin Maza na Duniya biyu (1946), tare da Robert Adams, ya zama ɗan wasan kwaikwayo wanda Peter Noble ya bayyana a cikin shekarar 1948 a matsayin "tsayi mai tsayi. babban mutum mai zurfin muryar bass, abokantaka, karimci kuma mai yawan ban dariya." 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. Noble ya ci gaba da cewa game da Martins: "Yana da sha'awar kafuwar gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Negro a London. Kamar yadda ya nuna: 'Idan wannan ya kasance yana nufin ba wai kawai cewa basirar Negro a cikin kowane gidan wasan kwaikwayo za a iya nunawa ga duniya ba, amma ci gaba da yin aiki ga wannan basirar da ke faruwa a yanzu. Peter Noble, The Negro In Films, Skelton Robinson, 1948, p. 178; quoted in Bourne (2001), p. 78.

Ya fito a cikin fim din shekarar 1949 mai suna The Hasty Heart (wanda ya hada da Ronald Reagan da Patricia Neal ), yana wasa da jarumin Afrika Blossom, wanda kuma rawar da Martins ya taka a cikin shirin.  A cikin 1950s ya yi wasu bayyanuwa a kan matakin London, ciki har da daidaitawa na Cry, Ƙasar Ƙaunataccen ( Trafalgar Square Theater, 1954), da Memba na Bikin aure ( Royal Court Theater, shekarar 1957), kafin ya koma Legas a shekarar 1959.  Daga baya ya taka rawar gani a fina-finai kamar Killers of Kilimanjaro (1960), Call Me Bwana (1963), Mister Moses (1965), da Kongi's Harvest (1970, Wole Soyinka 's adaptation of his play of the same name ).

 Mutuwa da gado 
Martins ya rasu a shekarar 1985 yana da shekaru 85 a Legas, inda aka binne shi a makabartar Ikoyi . 

Shi ne batun wani littafi na shekarar 1983 ta Takiu Folami, mai suna Orlando Martins, da Legend: wani m biography na duniya na farko acclaimed African fim actor . 

Marubucin wasan kwaikwayo na zaune a Bristol Ros Martin yana bincike da haɓaka abubuwa dangane da Martins, kawunta. 

 Finafinai 
YearTitleRoleNotes1935Sanders of the RiverKlovaUncredited1937The Green CockatooUncredited1945The Man from MoroccoJeremiah1946Men of Two WorldsMagole1947The End of the RiverHarrigan1949The Hasty HeartBlossom1954West of ZanzibarM'Kwongi1953The Heart of the MatterRev. ClayUncredited1954West of ZanzibarM'Kwongwi1955SimbaHeadman1956SafariJerusalem1957Abandon ShipSam Holly1957Tarzan and the Lost SafariChief Ogonooro1958The Naked EarthTribesman, pall bearer1959SapphireBarman1959The Nun's StoryKalulu1960Killers of KilimanjaroChief1963Sammy Going SouthAbu Lubaba1963Call Me BwanaChief1965Mister MosesChief1970Kongi's HarvestDr. Gbenga1971Things Fall ApartObierika(final film role)

 Nassoshi 

 Kara karantawa 

 Takiu Folami, Orlando Martins, The Legend: wani m biography na farko duniya acclaimed dan wasan fim na Afirka, Lagos, Nigeria: Executive Publishers, 1983,  .

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