{"id":59017,"date":"2019-01-17T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=59017"},"modified":"2019-01-16T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:26:07","slug":"legendary-actor-ataa-mensah-dies-at-91video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/legendary-actor-ataa-mensah-dies-at-91video\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Actor Ataa Mensah Dies At 91(VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Ghanaian actor, Ebenezer Lartey popularly known as Ataa Mensah has kicked<\/p>\n<p>the bucket at the age of 91 according to a report on\u00a0HotfmOnlinegh.com<\/p>\n<p>The sad incident, according to the report occurred on Tuesday, January 15.<\/p>\n<p>According to the wife of the late actor, Ashie Lartey;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMy husband was admitted at the Ridge Hospital in December after complaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> of chest pain. He died yesterday at the Ridge Hospital. The family is yet to decide <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>on when to bury him.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/stop-recording-profane-songs-kojo-antwi\/\">https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/stop-recording-profane-songs-kojo-antwi\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Short Bio On Ataa Mensah<\/h3>\n<p>Late Ataa Mensah was born on January 12, 1928, in Accra. He started his acting career in<\/p>\n<p>1965 and started appearing on TV in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>During the Saka Acquaye\u2019s era, all the dramas and films were then in English so the late<\/p>\n<p>Atta Mensah decided to change the phase of the industry by acting in Ga.<\/p>\n<p>He played the lead character in the popular Showcase in Ga drama troupe.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the scripts of the numerous dramas on GBC and some films were written by him.<\/p>\n<h3>Kindly watch Ataa Mensah\u2019s wife speak on his death below:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Legendary actor Ataa Mensah is dead -Wife confirms\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLc5eM-hAoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Credit:\u00a0HotfmOnlinegh.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Ghanaian actor, Ebenezer Lartey popularly known as Ataa Mensah has kicked the bucket at the age of 91 according to a report on\u00a0HotfmOnlinegh.com The sad incident, according to the report occurred on Tuesday, January 15. According to the wife of the late actor, Ashie Lartey; \u201cMy husband was admitted at the Ridge Hospital in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":59019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57569],"class_list":["post-59017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ataa-mensah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59023,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59017\/revisions\/59023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}