Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1933-03-04
Day of Death
2013-05-09
Place of Birth
Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Alfredo Landa
Biography
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 (124)
Landa
2026
El Quijote desde la platea
2019
El precio de la risa
2017
Barefoot in the Kitchen
2013
Sunday Light
2007
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
2004
Moscow Gold
2003
The End of a Mystery
2003
El refugio del mal
2002
Historia de un beso
2002
El árbol del penitente
2000
Los porretas
1996
King of the River
1995
Alone, at Last!
1994
