Alfredo Landa

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Alfredo Landa Areitio (born March 3, 1933) was born in Pamplona, Navarra (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.

In the 1950s, he worked as a dubbing actor for a short time.

In 1962, he debuted in the cinema.

Dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975 and, after that, censorship began to disappear. This caused a growth of sexual comedies on Spanish cinema. Landa became the "sexual repressed" of that trend, especially under directors Mariano Ozores and Pedro Lazaga. He even created his own trend, that some people call landismo.

Afterwards, with the stabilization of Spanish cinema, Landa changed his image, taking much deeper roles, like his bandit in El Bosque Animado. A dramatic actor, he is now widely recognized.

After a career with more than one dozen of TV series and more than one hundred and twenty movies, 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.