Landa, Alfredo

b. 1933, Pamplona (Navarre)

   Actor

   In his career as a film actor Landa has worked for a wide variety of directors including, in the 1970s and 1980s, Bardem in El Puente (The Long Weekend) (1976), Garci in El crack (The Crack) (1981), Camus in Los santos inocentes (The Holy Innocents) (1984), and Patino in Los paraísos perdidos (The Lost Paradises) (1985). In the 1990s he has appeared in films and television productions such as El Quijote (1991), Cuerda's La marrana (The Pig) (1992), for which he won the 1993 Goya Prize for best actor, the 1993 television series Lleno par favor (Full Up), and Gutiérrez Aragón's El rey del río (King of the River) (1995). He was awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Arts in 1992.

   See also: film and cinema

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