Juan de Landa

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Juan de Landa (actually Juan Crisóstomo Pisón Pagoaga y Landa ; born January 27, 1894 in Mutriku , Province of Gipuzkoa ; † February 18, 1968 ibid) was a Spanish actor .

Life

De Landa spent large parts of his childhood and youth traveling with his family, living in the Basque Country, Paraguay and Argentina. His first professional engagements took him to European music theater stages, where he appeared as a tenor in 1929. Soon after, he went to New York City to appear at the Metropolitan Opera , but failed with his plan. Penniless he ended up in California, where he was hired to act in Spanish-language versions of early Hollywodd sound films after a screen test. In 1930 and 1931 he was seen in a whole series of films, from De frente, march next to Buster Keaton to Last Night by Chester M. Franklin to a western . After these productions were discontinued, de Landa returned to his home country, where he found work without any problems.

After the Spanish Civil War , co-productions with Mussolini- Italy, which was linked to the Franco regime , were popular; De Landa used this for a new phase of his work and went to Italy. The beefy, sedate-looking actor played his most important role at this time in Luchino Visconti's Ossessione 1942. Two years later he returned to Spain and continued his career as a character actor. In 1950 again in Italy, he also managed to return without any problems through important productions for American films such as Chess the Devil . One last change of location, again back to his Basque homeland, was made by de Landa in 1956 for the final four films in the following year.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1930: De frente, march
  • 1930: El último de los Vargas
  • 1940: Sabotage on the Esperanza (Il pirata sono io)
  • 1943: Obsession (Ossessione)
  • 1950: Between love and vice (Alina)
  • 1952: The woman who invented love (La donna che inventò l'amore)
  • 1952: Zorro, the hero (Il sogno di Zorro)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Landa in the Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia
personal data
SURNAME Landa, Juan de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pagoaga y Landa, Juan Crisóstomo Pisón (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mutriku , Province of Guipuzcoa
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1968
Place of death Mutriku , Province of Guipuzcoa