Chief Wale OgunyemiListenⓘ, OFR (12 August 1939 – 17 December 2001) was a Nigerian veteran seasoned dramatist, film actor, prolific playwright, and Yoruba language scholar.
[4] He attended the University of Ibadan in 1967 for a year course in drama, the same year he was appointed as a research assistant at Ibadan Institute of African Studies where he later retired.
[5][6][7] Ogunyemi began his acting career as a seasonal actor with the new western Nigerian television service in the early 1960s.
[9] His credible performance made him a choice for the role he played as "The bale" in The Lion and the Jewel[10] and Dende in Kongi's Harvest by professor Wole Soyinka.
[11] He also featured in The Beatification Of Area Boy, a play by Wole Soyinka premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1995.