{"id":230976,"date":"2026-06-06T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230976"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:55:07","slug":"sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230976","title":{"rendered":"Sad news in Nollywood as veteran actor Davis Ofor dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GistReel<br \/>\nVeteran Nollywood actor Davis Ofor, best remembered as Clarus in the iconic 1980s sitcom New Masquerade, has died at the age of 85. The news of his passing broke on Tuesday, sending a wave of grief across Nigeria\u2019s entertainment community. Fellow actor Tony Akposheri confirmed the sad development on Instagram&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gistreel.com\/sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GistReel Veteran Nollywood actor Davis Ofor, best remembered as Clarus in the iconic 1980s sitcom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",720,402,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",640,357,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",640,357,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",720,402,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",720,402,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",720,402,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85.jpg",720,402,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230976-sad-news-in-nollywood-as-veteran-actor-davis-ofor-dies-at-85-590x402.jpg",590,402,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}