Alfredo Landa

Acting

Born: 1933-03-04
Died: 2013-05-09
From: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.4

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.

Awards & Nominations6 won · 1 nominated

🏆 Won

Gold Medal of Work Merit

2008
🏆 Won

Honorary Goya Award

2008
🏆 Won

Goya Award for Best Actor

La marrana

1993
🏆 Won

Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts

1991
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Actor

El bosque animado

1988
🏆 Won

Goya Award for Best Actor

El bosque animado

1987
🏆 Won

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor

The Holy Innocents

1984

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