Veteran Ghanaian actor Kofi Middleton Mends is reported dead as a result of kidney failure.
First daughter of the actor, Araba Botchwey, who confirmed her father’s death revealed that he has been on dialysis for a couple of years now and finally died on Tuesday, 16 August at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The late actor is well-known for his television commercial for Key Soap. He became synonymous with the phrase, “Sarah, my socks”, a statement he made in one of the many movies he featured in.
He has been an actor since the 1960s when he starred in the movie ‘No Tears for Ananse’. He also played a role in the movie ‘Grey Dawn’, which was released in 2015.
He was a lecturer at the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and the University of Ghana but stopped teaching a few years ago.
Araba Botchwey further told the media that her father will be missed greatly. What she remembers very well as a young child was the way her father corrected them when they made mistakes in the pronunciation of English words. “Whenever he tells you bring that brown dictionary, then know that you have pronounced a word wrongly,” she told Joy FM.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
