Alfredo Landa
Birthday: 1933-03-04
Died: 2013-05-09
Birthplace: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Alfredo Landa (3 March 1933 – 9 May 2013) was a Spanish actor.
Alfredo Landa Arena born in Pamplona (Navarre), Spain. He finished his pre-university studies in San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to work with university school groups. He left university to work in the theater. After working as a dubbing actor for a short time in the 1950s, he debuted with his first considerable role in film in José María Forqué's Atraco a las tres in 1962. When Francisco Franco died in 1975, censorship began to disappear. This led to a growth of erotic comedies on Spanish cinema. Landa became the "sexually repressed" role of that trend, especially under directors Mariano Ozores and Pedro Lazaga. He even created his own trend, that some people called landismo.[2]
Afterwards, Landa changed his image, taking much deeper roles, like his bandit in El Bosque animado. Landa, along with Francisco Rabal, won Best Actor award at 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his memorable performance in Los santos inocentes. He is now widely recognized as a great dramatic actor. After a career with more than one hundred and twenty movies, one dozen of television series, and several stage successes, with a great amount of Spanish and European awards, 74-year-old Landa announced his retirement at the X Festival de Cine de Málaga (10th Movie Festival of Málaga) while receiving a new award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfredo Landa (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Character: Malvís / Bandido Fendetestas
Character: Alfredo Velázquez
Character: Faustino Peláez
Character: Dr. León Hernández
Character: Sargento Pérez
Character: Rodolfo Cisneros
Character: Daniel Martínez
Character: Venancio Torralba 'El Torralba'
Character: Marcial Flores 'El Verónicas'
Character: Pepe García Moratillo, fontanero
Character: Honorio Sigüenza
Character: Miguel Cañete Moste
Character: Antón Gutiérrez
Character: Emilio Vallejo
Character: Comisario Miranda
Character: Profesor Mussy
Character: Jenaro Castrillo
Character: Timoteo Fonseca
Character: Alfonso de la Peña y Peña, abogado (1) / Alfredo, marqués (2) / Benito López (3) / Pascual, soldado (4)
Character: Bienvenido Garcés
Character: Inspector Murphy
Character: Manolo Olmedillo
Character: Antonio Ponce de León
Character: Joaquín Panjero
Character: Antonio Parrondo y Carnicero, novio de Katy (2)
Character: José Rebolledo
Character: Bruno - El jeque árabe
Character: Hipólito Castañón
Character: Federico Villalba/Ricardo Smith
Character: Ceferino Díaz Fernández
Character: Emilio Antúnez
Character: Brigada Castro
Character: Saturnino del Olmo
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Character: Segismundo Porretas
Character: Lucas Fernández
Character: Rodolfo Sicilia
Character: Gabriel Mostazo
Character: Rafael Castroviejo
Character: Cleofás Pérez Zambullo
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Character: Self - Actor / Sancho Panza (archive footage)
Character: Valentín Martínez (segment "El Retrato de Regino")
Character: Eusebio Cascajero y Esparza
Character: Cheering Man in Audience (uncredited)
Character: Jornalero burro (uncredited)
Character: Casimiro Rodríguez, el albañil
Character: Brother Pappina
Character: (archive footage)