The 'landismo' on TV: 'El Quijote' a 'Los Serrano' - 20minutos.es

class=”text”> Alfredo Landa (d) playing Sancho Panza in the television series of Don Quixote. (IMAGE SERIES)

A career as extensive as that of Alfredo Landa, died Thursday at age 80, serves as a thread in the history of television in Spain, since the days of theater in the small screen to the big hits Series as Serrano (2003), from none other than Don Quixote (1991).

class=”quote_new”> I just believe in God, Don Franco and Santiago Bernabeu Landa, while working mythical tapes as Robbery at three (1962) and The Executioner (1963), participated in the dawn of the Spanish television series productions as Confessions (1963 – 1965) , Jaime de Armiñán, who would also Time and time (1966-1967).

Then came recordings

Study 1, as Carlota (1965) , last monkey (1966) and half-light three (1966), and in 1984 would end up starring in the third and last of the adaptations for Ninette TVE and M. de Murcia , the work of Miguel Mihura directed by Gustavo Pérez-Puig, with Juanjo Menéndez, Victoria Vera, Ismael Merlo, Florinda Chico and Maria Casal.

This followed

Sadness of love (1986) , with Shell Fortified, and five years later his big TV role, that of Sancho Panza Don Quixote , from which the actor said this work might well have finished their career.

But after giving life to the squire of Don Quixote played by Fernando Rey in luxury production, written by Camilo Jose Cela and directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón whose five episodes left to the history of television, the actor returned to life after the hit TV blockbusters such as crack (1981) or The Holy Innocents (1984) .

A mythical phrase

Full please , released in 1993 on Antena 3 , at the beginning of private television, the popularity redoubled Landa issuing their films in the small screen had always provided.

“I only believe in God, Don Franco and Santiago Bernabéu” was the phrase he left in the collective memory of many viewers his character in Full please , revalidated with success Alone at (1995) and Top shape (1997) , where again Shell Fortified match.

latter two series achieved an audience of millions through their presence, because Landa found on television a way to pursue a film career , which ended culminating in another iconic television series in Spain, Los Serrano (2003) , where brother made Resines and Jesus Antonio Bonilla.

“I reincorporated to television with a role in my size “, then said the actor, who was also able to work with Julia Gutiérrez Caba, actress with whom he debuted in theater in early the 60s.