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Alfredo Landa

Acting Born Mar 4, 1933 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Around the World in 80 Days

as Extra (uncredited)
Film

The Executioner

as Sacristán
Film

Magic Powder

as Arturo

Full filmography

  • Landa (2026) as Self (Archive Footage)
  • Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Extra (uncredited)
  • The Executioner (1963) as Sacristán
  • Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 (2004) as Eusebio Cascajero y Esparza
  • Profesor eróticus (1981) as Profesor Mussy
  • Magic Powder (1979) as Arturo
  • Amigo (1980) as Padre Velasco
  • La próxima estación (1982) as José Luis
  • The Girl in Mourning (1964) as Rafael Castroviejo
  • Tuset Street (1968) as Cheering Man in Audience (uncredited)
  • Cradle Song (1994) as Don José
  • El rediezcubrimiento de México (1979) as Ceferino Díaz Fernández
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha (1992) as Sancho Panza
  • Amor a la española (1967) as Rafa
  • The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964) as X2
  • Piernas cruzadas (1984) as Jeremías
  • ¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! (1971) as Pepe
  • A Rose in the Wind (1984) as José
  • El precio de la risa (2017) as Himself (archive footage)
  • Las estrellas están verdes (1973) as Luis Oñate
  • Lleno, por favor (1993) as Don Pepe
  • Préstame quince días (1971) as Galdino
  • Guapo heredero busca esposa (1972) as Fidel Frutos
  • A Devil Under the Pillow (1968) as Brocheros