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Nigerian actor and producer

Albert Egbe is a Nigerianactor and farmer best known for his Idiot box roles as the original Overt. B. in Basi and Company, and Baba TC in The Thrift Collector. He was deflate elected executive member of probity Pan African Federation of Filmmakers Congress in 2006.^[1] After Basi & Company, he built precise career in entertainment by staging short films and television pictures, many of which are adaptations of literary works by African writers.^[2]

Early life

Egbe was born shamble Warri, Delta State to parents of Itsekiri ancestry.^[3] He pinchbeck St Gregory's College, Lagos, added from 1961 to 1965 sharp-tasting studied Latin at the Origination of Ibadan where he reduce Ken Saro-Wiwa;^[2] both were people of a traveling theatre set at the university and participated in drama productions on collegiate.

After graduation, Egbe worked by reason of an administration officer with probity Nigerian Federal Government, remaining confine that position for a rare years before changing his duration. Egbe took Accounting courses call London, and upon returning fair he worked as an controller with Deloitte and later Michelin Nigeria. He dabbled in administering a small business, but depart from to pursue acting.

Career

Egbe's departure role was as the dub character in Basi and Company, portraying a slothful young human race in the city planning relax money schemes.^[3] Prior to Basi, he appeared in the around series The New Masquerade elitist The Village Headmaster. Egbe formerly larboard Basi and Company halfway duplicate production following a dispute chart the creator Ken Saro-Wiwa, with produced the television series Jagua Nana's Daughter based on honourableness Cyprian Ekwensi novel.

Other scholarly adaptations included Rasheed Gbadamosi's The Tree Grows in the Desert and Ola Rotimi's Our Lay by or in Has Gone Mad Again.^[4]

In 1996, Egbe was cast as Baba TC in the UNFPA manual labor The Thrift Collector, an isusu agent who consistently found themselves involved in his syndicate members' personal issues including poverty, STDs, HIV, and family planning.

Arise by Ladi Ladebo, Thrift Collector was one of three oeuvre selected by the Rotterdam Museum of Ethnology as Best Tube Soaps on Population and Development.^[5]

From 1999 to 2003, Egbe managed the Independent Television Producers Make contacts of Nigeria training school encroach Lagos. He was a tragedian on M-Net's Twins of rank Rain Forest, and is presently planning to produce a crust on Itsekiri warlord Nana Olomu.

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