Albert Egbe

Albert Egbe is a Nigerian actor and producer best known for his TV roles as the original Mr. B. in Basi and Company, and Baba TC in The Thrift Collector. He was an elected executive member of the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers Congress in 2006. After Basi & Company, he built a career in entertainment by producing short films and television movies, many of which are adaptations of literary works by Nigerian writers.

Early life Egbe was born in Warri, Delta State to parents of Itsekiri ancestry. Prior to Basi, he appeared in the television series The New Masquerade and The Village Headmaster. Egbe left Basi and Company halfway through production following a dispute with the creator Ken Saro-Wiwa, and produced the television series Jagua Nana's Daughter based on the Cyprian Ekwensi novel. Other literary adaptations included Rasheed Gbadamosi's The Tree Grows in the Desert and Ola Rotimi's Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again.

In 1996, Egbe was cast as Baba TC in the UNFPA production The Thrift Collector, an isusu agent who consistently found himself involved in his syndicate members' personal issues including poverty, STDs, HIV, and family planning. Produced by Ladi Ladebo, Thrift Collector was one of three productions selected by the Rotterdam Museum of Ethnology as Best TV Soaps on Population and Development.

From 1999 to 2003, Egbe managed the Independent Television Producers Association of Nigeria training school in Lagos. He was a screenwriter on M-Net's Twins of the Rain Forest, and is currently planning to produce a film on Itsekiri warlord Nana Olomu.