Nigerian playwright, actor and movie director (1929–2013)
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Yemi Ajibade
Born
Adeyemi Olanrewaju Goodman Ajibade
(1929-07-28)28 July 1929
Ìlá Òràngún, Osun State, Nigeria
Died
24 January 2013(2013-01-24) (aged 83)
London, England
Other names
Yemi Goodman Ajibade; Ade-Yemi Ajibade
Occupation(s)
Playwright, actor and director
Notable work
Parcel Post Waiting for Hannibal
Yemi AjibadeListenⓘ (28 July 1929[1][2] – 24 January 2013[3]), usually credited as Yemi Goodman Ajibade or Ade-Yemi Ajibade, was a Nigerian playwright, actor and director [4][5] who, after settling in England in the 1950s, made significant contributions to the British theatre and the canon of Black drama. As an actor he is well-known for Dirty Pretty Things (2002), The Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) and Danger Man (1964). In a career that spanned half a century, he directed and wrote several successful plays, as well as acting in a wide range of drama for television, stage, radio and film.
^Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal Ltd, for Africa Books, 1981, p. 82.
^Later sources give his birth year as 1933.
^Yemi Ajibade at Aveleyman.
^"Yemi Goodman Ajibade". IMDb. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
^Admin (19 September 2016). "AJIBADE, Yemi". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
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