The celebrated actor died on October 31, 2024, at the ripe age of 101. Despite his age, many mourned Agbako’s demise.

To honour the late actor’s memory, Legit.ng has compiled a list of interesting facts about Charles Olumo.

Alhaji Sanyaolu, aka Charles Olumo or Agbako, revealed during a 2015 interview with City People that his acting career started in 1953 at a church in Lagos. According to the late actor, he was a mechanic, but he acted for the first time in his friend’s church drama at the Apostolic Church in Mushin. The late Agbako said that because of the play, many people took him as the head of the acting troupe, and churches started inviting him to organise church dramas.

Charles Olumo said that acting was more than just money for him. He abandoned his mechanic job for it because of his passion for the profession. The actor also explained that his nickname Agbako came about because he was told to choose an alias that people would easily remember.

In the past, being an actor was seen as a less than noble profession, with many parents kicking against their children getting involved. This was the same case for Charles Olumo. Agbako believed his father tried to use ‘charm’ to make him stop being an actor. The late movie star explained during an interview that he was told his father was dead, and when he went to his village, he met his dad, who then talked to him with charms to abandon acting. However, the effect only lasted for a few days before he ran away from home.