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Lando Buzzanca
Actor
Born August 24, 1935Died December 18, 2022 (87 years)
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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.
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2019 | W gli Sposi · as Reverend |
| 2017 | Who Will Save the Roses? · as Claudio |
| 2013 | Deadly Game (TV Series) · as Franco Binasco (2013) |
| 2012 | Il Restauratore (TV Series) · as Basilio Corsi |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | Rebel Land (TV Series) · as Generale Malagridas |
| 2010 | Lo scandalo della Banca Romana · as Bernardo Tanlongo |
| 2007 | I Viceré · as Prince Giacomo |
| 2007 | La baronessa di Carini · as Don Ippolito |
| 2007 | Chiara e Francesco · as Pietro Di Bernardone |
| 2006 | Capri (TV Series) · as Rodolfo Taurisano |
| 2004 | |
| 2000 | Il segreto del giaguaro · as Mazzaro |
| 2000 | Libero (TV Series) · as Ospite Speciale |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | Secondo Ponzio Pilato · as Valeriano |
| 1982 | I'm Going to Live by Myself · as Giuseppe |
| 1980 | Prestami tua moglie · as Alex Fortini |
| 1978 | Travolto dagli affetti familiari · as Memé Di Costanzo |
| 1977 | Una noche embarazosa · as Amalio Badalamenti |
| 1976 | San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne · as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'femminaro' |
| 1975 | Il gatto mammone · as Lollo Mascalucia |
| 1975 | Dracula in the Provinces · as Costante Nicosia |
| 1974 | My Darling Domestic · as Rosario 'sasa' Cabaduni |
| 1974 | The Handsome Devil · as Gaetano 'tano' Avallone |
| 1974 | Playing the Field · as Carmelo Lo Cascio |
| 1973 | The Slave · as Demetrio Cultura |
| 1973 | Io e lui · as Rico |
| 1973 | |
| 1972 | La calandria · as Lidio |
| 1972 | L'uccello migratore · as Andrea Pomeraro |
| 1972 | Jus primae noctis · as Ariberto Da Ficulle |
| 1972 | Il sindacalista · as Saverio Ravizzi |
| 1972 | The Eroticist · as Senatore Gianni Puppis |
| 1972 | When Women Lost Their Tails · as Ham |
| 1971 | X-Rated Girl · as Niccolo Vivaldi |
| 1971 | Man of the Year · as Michele Cannaritta |
| 1971 | No One Will Notice You're Naked · as Rosario Trapenese |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | Il prete sposato · as Don Salvatore |
| 1970 | When Women Had Tails · as Kao |
| 1970 | The Conjugal Debt · as Orazio |
| 1970 | The Beast · as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Nel giorno del signore · as Primo Fidanzato Di Margherita |
| 1970 | Un caso di coscienza · as Salvatore Vaccagnino |
| 1969 | The Viking Who Became a Bigamist · as Vittorio Coppa |
| 1969 | Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies · as Marcello Agost |
| 1969 | Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte · as Conte Lombardini |
| 1968 | Criminal Affair · as Esteban De Flori |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | Colpo di sole · as Giovanni Angelo Errani |
| 1967 | Operazione San Pietro · as Napoleone |
| 1967 | Anyone Can Play · as Ricattatore |
| 1967 | Spia spione · as Carlo Barazzetti |
| 1967 | Don Juan in Sicily · as Giovanni Percolla |
| 1967 | A Rose for Everyone · as Lino |
| 1966 | After the Fox · as Police Chief |
| 1966 | I nostri mariti · as Ragionier Manzi |
| 1966 | Ringo and Gringo Against All · as Serg. Gringo |
| 1966 | For a Few Dollars Less · as Bill |
| 1966 | The Wacky World of James Tont · as James Tont Agent 007 1/2 |
| 1965 | Made in Italy · as Giulio (segment "1 'usi E Costumi', Episode 2") |
| 1965 | Goldsinger · as James Tont Agent 007 1/2 |
| 1965 | The Double Bed · as Vincenzo (segment 4 "mourir Pour Vivre") |
| 1965 | Letti sbagliati · as Birolli (segment "il Complicato") |
| 1965 | The Sucker · as Lino, Le Barbier |
| 1964 | Extraconjugal · as Roberto Savello (segment "la Doccia") |
| 1964 | The Magnificent Cuckold · as Giovannino - Younger Manservant At The Artusis (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Corpse for the Lady · as Enzo, Fratello Di Laura |
| 1964 | Seduced and Abandoned · as Antonio Ascalone |
| 1964 | The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars · as Lo Sposo |
| 1964 | Love in Four Dimensions · as (segment "amore E Alfabeto") |
| 1964 | La paura numero uno · as Brigadiere Di Pubblica Sicurezza |
| 1964 | La Grande Magia · as Brigadiere |
| 1963 | The Monsters · as Luchino (segment "come Un Padre") |
| 1963 | La parmigiana · as Michele Pantanò |
| 1963 | The Little Nuns · as Amilcare Franzetti |
| 1963 | The Eye of the Needle · as Carabiniere Sanfilippo |
| 1962 | His Days Are Numbered · as Cesare's Son |
| 1962 | Totò di notte n. 1 · as Passenger On Plane |
| 1961 | Divorce Italian Style · as Rosario Mulè |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur · as Jewish Slave In The Desert (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Sanremo Music Festival (TV Series) · as Guest |