Rodolfo Landa

{{Short description|Mexican actor and lawyer}}

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Rodolfo Echeverría Álvarez, better known as Rodolfo Landa (September 24, 1926 – February 14, 2004), was a Mexican actor, lawyer, public official{{Cite book|last1=Barnard|first1=Timothy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFpKgxYTHbAC&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=PA67|title=New Latin American Cinema|last2=Berg|first2=Charles|last3=Burton|first3=Julianne|last4=Maciel|first4=David R.|last5=Mora|first5=Carl J.|date=1997|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=978-0-8143-2586-5|language=en}} and trade unionist.{{Cite book|last=Stein|first=Philip|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVNBwF5sLr4C&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=PA253|title=Siqueiros: His Life and Works|date=1994|publisher=International Publishers Co|isbn=978-0-7178-0706-2|language=en}} He served as a leader of the National Actors Association (ANDA){{Cite book|last=Mora|first=Carl J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOwdFIQiTv8C&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=PA113|title=Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society|date=1989|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-04304-6|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Pilcher|first1=Jeffrey M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIjvlED3ExkC&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=PA161|title=Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity|last2=Pilcher|first2=Professor of History Jeffrey M.|date=2001|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8420-2771-7|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Affairs|first=United States Bureau of International Labor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQcjAQAAMAAJ&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=SA26-PA30|title=Directory of Labor Organizations: Western Hemisphere [excluding the United States].|date=1960|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}} and the Mexican Theater Center of ITI-UNESCO, in addition to developing a theatrical career for which he won critical and public recognition. He was the brother of Luis Echeverría Álvarez, president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.{{Cite book|last=Camp|first=Roderic Ai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96xOHRWNMioC&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=PA283|title=Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition|date=2011-10-01|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-72634-5|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Berg|first=Charles Ramírez|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eGXiuSxYQ_kC&dq=rodolfo+landa&pg=PA44|title=Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983|date=2010-07-05|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-79192-3|language=en}}

Echeverría Álvarez also served in the Chamber of Deputies on two occasions:{{cite web |title=Andi Escenarios: marzo de 2017 |url=https://www.andi.org.mx/revista/revista_andi_18.pdf |publisher=Asociación Nacional de Intérpretes}} from 1952 to 1955, representing the Federal District's 18th electoral district, and from 1961 to 1964, representing the Federal District's 6th electoral district.