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Bolaji Badejo
Sign in to saveNigerian actor (1953–1992)
Film & TV
Nigeria
Bolaji Badejo was a Nigerian design student who portrayed the eponymous Alien in the 1979 film Alien. Alien was Badejo's only acting appearance. As a child, Badejo had been diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia. Several months after his 39th birthday, Bolaji fell ill and was taken to St. Stephen Hospital in Ebute Metta, Lagos, where he died on December 22, 1992 of complications from the disease.…
Known for
- Alien — Alien1979
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- Listeners
- 13
- Total plays
- 22
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Lagos
- Place of death
- Lagos
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- Yoruba
- Native language
- Yoruba
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- date of birth
- 1953-08-23
- date of death
- 1992-12-22
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- sickle-cell disease
- name in native language
- Bolaji Badejo
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
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