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Charles Olumo

Nigerian Yoruba film actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ28408353 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alhaji Abdulsalam Sanyaolu (July 1923 – 31 October 2024), better known as Charles Olumo, was a Nigerian actor from Abeokuta, Ogun State. He mainly appeared in Yoruba-language films in "Nollywood".

Life and career

Sanyaolu began acting in 1953 at a church in Lagos. He died on 31 October 2024, at the age of 101.

Editorial summary

“Charles Olumo” enters the record as nigerian Yoruba film actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charles, Olumo and Nigerian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2024, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charles, Olumo and Nigerian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Charles Olumo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Charles, Olumo and Nigerian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28408353. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923, 2024 and 1953.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Olumo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.