Pete Edochie
Nigerian actor · Nigeria · On the map · Actors · Born 1947 · age 79
Chief Pete Edochie MON is a Nigerian actor. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his portrayal of Okonkwo in a Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Ikenga: The Last FestivalFilm2023IfedicheFilm2022C.O.L.DFilm2020
UnroyalFilm2018
LionheartFilm, Ernest2008AminaFilm2004Across the NigerFilm2003
Billionaire's Club 2Film
Egg of LifeFilm, 2003Igwe
Love And PoliticsFilm, 2003The PythonFilm, 2003Ochikeze1999
Igodo: The Land of the Living DeadFilm
TokunbohFilm, 1999King Nwude1987
Things Fall ApartSeries, Okonkwo1985“I am senior in the movie industry. I mean, when I did ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1985, there was nothing like Nollywood.”In their words1947Born7 March 1947People around Pete
Nkem Owoh Directed Ikuku (Hurricane) 1 (1995)- Zeb Ejiro Directed Ikuku (Hurricane) 1 (1995)
Genevieve Nnaji Directed Lionheart (2019), also in Super Love
Onyeka Onwenu Also in Lionheart, Nightmare and Chain Reaction- Sam Loco Efe Also in Things fall apart (1987)
Patience Ozokwor Also in Nnewi The Land of Gold and Evil Agenda- Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen Directed Ibuka: King of the Forest (2000)
- Nana Ama McBrown Also in John and John and Church on Fire
Chiwetalu Agu Also in Return of the Ghost and Ifediche
Ebele Okaro Also in Egg of Life and Nnewi The Land of Gold
Linda Osifo Also in Foreigner’s God and Unroyal- Matilda Lambert Produced Unroyal (2020)
Sam Dede Also in Foreigner’s God (2019)
Toka McBaror Directed Nnewi The Land of Gold
Kingsley Abasili Also in Unroyal and Black Chambers
Kofi Asamoah Directed John and John (2017)
Moses Inwang Directed Unroyal (2020)
Rita Edochie Also in The Python and Chain Reaction- Chico Ejiro Directed Freedom (1999)
- Enebeli Elebuwa Also in Oracle and Amina: Unity in Diversity
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, If you hurt the Igbo man once in politics, that is it; he will never allow you to hurt him again. He will recoil into himself and stay there. That's the average Igbo man.
One takes a vow when one wants to get married, and it is for better and for worse. Not for better, for us. One will always think it is greener on the other side.
Situations breed people. When we were young growing up in Zaria, each time we went to watch cowboy movies... we would see them rolling tobacco and smoking.
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About this person
He began his career as an administrator and broadcaster and later became a leading actor and has received several honours, including the Industry Merit Award from Africa Magic, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Africa Film Academy, and the national honour of Member of the Order of the Niger conferred on him in 2003 by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
