This is Chief Pete Edochie

This is Chief Pete Edochie

Another Kaduna Born Legend

This elder needs no introduction but for the sake of Noodle gobblers here we go:

☞︎ This is Chief Pete Edochie

Born Pete Edochie, on the 7th of March 1947, is a veteran Nigerian actor who is considered to be one of Nigeria’s most talented actors, who came into prominence in the 1980s when he played the lead role of Okonkwo in a Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s all-time best-selling novel, Things Fall Apart.

Edochie was born in Zaria, Kaduna State but hails from Nteje in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State.

He schooled at St. Patrick’s and St. James Primary School, Zaria, before proceeding to St. John’s College for his secondary education.

He also schooled at the School of Journalism and Television in England.

Edochie got into radio broadcasting in 1967 at the age of 20, as a junior programs assistant after which he was elevated to the level of a director.

In 2005, the Actors Guild of Nigeria placed Edochie and several other actors on a one-year ban from filming after they were said to have been collecting huge fees from producers due to their A-list celebrity status.

He is known in the movie industry for playing the role of a wise man and inculcating words of wisdom and proverbs in his lines.

Pete Edochie is married with six children.

In 2009, Edochie was kidnapped and later released by his captors, unharmed.

In the early 2000’s he was honored as a Member of the Order of the Niger by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Chief Edochie has a plethora of movies to his credit, some of which include:

☞︎ Heavy Battle (2008)
☞︎ Test Your Heart (2008)
☞︎ Greatest Harvest (2007)
☞︎ Secret Pain (2007)
☞︎ Passage of Kings (2006)
☞︎ Simple Baby (2006)
☞︎ Zoza (2006)
☞︎ Azima (2005)
☞︎ Baby Girl (2005)
☞︎ End of Money (2005)
☞︎ Living in Tears (2005)
☞︎ Never End (2005)
☞︎ No More War (2005)
☞︎ Ola… the Morning Sun (2005)
☞︎ Price of Ignorance (2005)
☞︎ The Price of Love: Life Is Beautiful (2005)
☞︎ Sacred Tradition (2005)
☞︎ The Tyrant (2005)
☞︎ Across the Niger (2004)
☞︎ Coronation (2004)
☞︎ Dons in Abuja (2004)
☞︎ The Heart of Man (2004)
☞︎ King of the Jungle (2004)
☞︎ Love from Above (2004)
☞︎ Arrows (2003)
☞︎ Billionaire Club (1999)
☞︎ Egg of Life (2003)
☞︎ Onunaeyi: Seeds of Bondage (2003)
☞︎ Rejected Son (2003)
☞︎ Tears in the Sun (2003)
☞︎ Tears & Sorrows (2002)
☞︎ Terrible Sin (2001)
☞︎ Narrow Escape (1999)
☞︎ Living in Darkness (1999)
☞︎ Rituals (1997)
☞︎ Things Fall Apart (1987), TV series
☞︎ Igodo
☞︎ Evil men
☞︎ Unroyal (2020)
☞︎ Lionheart (2018)
☞︎ Mummy Why (2016)

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