Orlando Martins

Orlando Martins

Born: December 8, 1899
Died: September 25, 1985

Movies for Orlando Martins...

Things Fall Apart
Title: Things Fall Apart
Character: Obierika
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
When Obi Okonkwo completes his studies in England and returns to Nigeria, he finds himself in a country marked by rapid industrialisation and deep political change. In a time of social upheaval, Obi represents modern Nigeria. Through his gaze, his own expectations, those of his environment and the woman he loves become visible. And the disappointment of these expectations. Obi experiences the spreading corruption, the dominance of the Europeans and the conflicts with the values of traditional societies. In flashbacks, his struggle is interwoven with that of his grandfather Okonkwo. The latter experiences the first foreign influences in his village of Umuofia, from the arrival of the Christian missionaries to British colonialism.
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Kongi's Harvest
Title: Kongi's Harvest
Character: Dr. Gbenga
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at the upcoming harvest festival.
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Mister Moses
Title: Mister Moses
Character: Chief
Released: May 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
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Sammy Going South
Title: Sammy Going South
Character: Abu Lubaba
Released: March 18, 1963
Type: Movie
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Sapphire
Title: Sapphire
Character: Barman
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
Title: Killers of Kilimanjaro
Character: Chief
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
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The Nun's Story
Title: The Nun's Story
Character: Kalulu
Released: June 18, 1959
Type: Movie
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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The Naked Earth
Title: The Naked Earth
Character: Tribesman
Released: February 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
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Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Title: Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Character: Oparian Chieftain Ogonoore
Released: April 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.
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Abandon Ship
Title: Abandon Ship
Character: Sam Holly
Released: March 12, 1957
Type: Movie
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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Safari
Title: Safari
Character: Jerusalem
Released: June 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
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Simba
Title: Simba
Character: Headman
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
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West of Zanzibar
Title: West of Zanzibar
Character: M'Kwongi
Released: March 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
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Where No Vultures Fly
Title: Where No Vultures Fly
Character: M'Kwongwi
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them.
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The Hasty Heart
Title: The Hasty Heart
Character: Blossom
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Kolly
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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The End of the River
Title: The End of the River
Character: Harrigan
Released: December 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.
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Men of Two Worlds
Title: Men of Two Worlds
Character: Magole
Released: September 19, 1946
Type: Movie
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and attempt to take them to healthier land away from disease-infestation.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Jeremiah
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.