# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/justus-esiri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:54:17.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/justus-esiri"
name: "Justus Esiri"
slug: "justus-esiri"
description: "Justus Esiri was a Nigerian actor, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Nollywood with a career spanning several decades from the 1960s. He gained prominence for his role in the Nigerian Television Authority television series The Village Headmaster and in the film adaptation of Chinua Achebe's book Things Fall Apart, where he played Obierika.\nHe posthumously won the Best Actor award at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards for his role in Assassins Practice and was also honoured as the inaugural recipient of the Goodluck Jonathan Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Nollywood Movies Awards. The Nigerian government conferred on him national honours, including Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian film industry. He was the father of Mavin Records musician Dr Sid."
tagline: "Nigerian actor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Justus_Esiri.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-11-20"
deathDate: "2013-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.01
  momentum:             4.03361344537815
  historical:           9.285926666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2140303/"
    handle:    "nm2140303"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "جوستوس إيسيري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "چوستوس اسيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD_%D4%B7%D5%BD%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%AB"
    title: "Հուստուս Էսիրի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kai.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Esiri"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15992949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1060457"
    title: "Justus Esiri"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump