Lando Buzzanca
Acting
Born: August 24, 1935 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died: December 18, 2022 (aged 87)
Highest Rated
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gerlando Buzzanca (born August 24, 1935 in Palermo) is an Italian comedy actor. He left high school in Palermo when he was 16 years old, and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. In order to survive, he took many jobs: waiter, furniture mover, and a brief appearance as a slave in the film Ben-Hur. In his long career he often interpreted the role of the average Italian immigrant from southern Italy, who slowly began to enjoy moderate success during the years of the Italian economic miracle. His films showcased all the freshness of the 1960s, the 1970s and the heavier transition to the 1980s, focusing on the common life in several Italian cities such as Rome, Verona or Milan, balanced between personal happiness and professional achievement. Buzzanca often interpreted roles of a subordinate white collar worker, with a heavy vein of machismo, as a frustrated employee who tries to redeem his dull existence with his virility. He became famous for his role in the film Il merlo maschio, (The Male Blackbird), where in a provincial environment of cultural importance, the philharmonic orchestra of the Arena di Verona, he vents out his own frustrations, indulging into candaulism when he induces his bride to expose her naked body in the middle of a bridge in Verona. Some critics, in a lighter vein, have defined Buzzanca as a "Homo eroticus": a human being halfway between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, who risked extinction in the 1970s because of the harsh struggle with feminism activists. Today, even though much less so, this male type is still found among Italian males. Buzzanca's fame is greater in foreign countries than in his native land, and in countries as France, Japan, Greece, Israel, Spain and Switzerland he is a renowned international stereotype of the Italian provincialotto, elegant, naif, always causing mischief, and not obtaining anything from it. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lando Buzzanca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (86)
Ben-Hur
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
The Sucker
Lino, le barbier
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marcello Agost
Divorce Italian Style
Rosario Mulè
When Women Lost Their Tails
Ham
The Eroticist
Senatore Gianni Puppis
Seduced and Abandoned
Antonio Ascalone
Operation San Pietro
Napoleone
When Women Had Tails
Kao
After the Fox
Police Chief
House of Pleasure
Conte Lombardini
The Little Nuns
Amilcare Franzetti
Anyone Can Play
ricattatore
Secret Fantasy
Niccolo Vivaldi
The Magnificent Cuckold
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Vittorio Coppa
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
Made in Italy
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Un caso di coscienza
Salvatore Vaccagnino
The Monsters
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
Lend Me Your Wife
Alex Fortini
Playing the Field
Carmelo Lo Cascio
Il segreto del giaguaro
Mazzaro
Who Will Save The Roses?
Claudio
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Lo sposo
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Costante Nicosia
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Serg. Gringo
On the Day of the Lord
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
The Lovemakers
Carlo Danieli
Better a Widow
1968
The Union
Saverio Ravizzi
Criminal Affair
Esteban de Flori
The Household
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultura
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapenese
Il gatto mammone
Lollo Mascalucia
Senza sole nè luna
Bruno
For a Few Dollars Less
Bill
La calandria
Lidio
Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
Once a Year, Every Year
Mario
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Nunzio di Licordia
A Rose for Everyone
Lino
The Handsome Devil
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Our Husbands
Ragionier Manzi
Love in Four Dimensions
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Swept Away by Family Affection
Memé Di Costanzo
La trincea
soldato italiano
The Double Bed
Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
Chiara e Francesco
Pietro di Bernardone
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Giuseppe
The Eye of the Needle
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
Don Juan in Sicily
Giovanni Percolla
The Bird People
Antonio Lombardi
His Days Are Numbered
Cesare's Son
Spia spione
Carlo Barazzetti
Love and Marriage
(segment "Prima notte, La")
Una noche embarazosa
Amalio Badalamenti
Io e lui
Rico
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Ricky Ceciarelli
Jus primae noctis
Ariberto da Ficulle
Su e giù
Cuccio
The Girl from Parma
Michele Pantanò
The Beast
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
Honey Horn
Marino
La donna a una dimensione
Tv-host
The Conjugal Debt
Orazio
Wrong Beds
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
The Married Priest
Don Salvatore
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
The Beasts
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
Sunstroke
Giovanni Angelo Errani
Il fidanzamento
Luigi Mannozzi
O Diabo na Cama
1988
Extraconiugale
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
The Migratory Bird
Andrea Pomeraro
Wife for Sale
Furio Cicerone
W gli sposi
Reverend
According to Pontius Pilate
Valeriano
La paura numero uno
Il Brigadiere
Los crápulas
1981
Corpse for the Lady
Enzo, fratello di Laura
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Anfitrione
Incidenti
presentatore
TV Shows (8)
Libero
Ospite speciale · 1 eps
Terra ribelle
General Malagridas · 8 eps
Io, Gigliola
1 eps
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo · 2 eps
The Baroness of Carini
Don Ippolito · 2 eps
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Federico Vivaldi · 12 eps
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi · 28 eps
Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013) · 2 eps
