Lando Buzzanca
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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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Fotos
Películas (91)
W gli sposi
2018 · Reverend
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017 · Claudio
Case Chiuse
2011
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009 · Self
Los virreyes
2007 · Prince Giacomo
Clara y Francisco
2007 · Pietro di Bernardone
Incidenti
2005 · presentatore
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004 · Self
Una famiglia per caso
2003
Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003 · Anfitrione
Honey Horn
2000 · Marino
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000 · Mazzaro
The Bird People
1999 · Antonio Lombardi
Once a Year, Every Year
1994 · Mario
Cinema
1989 · Francisco
O Diabo na Cama
1988
According to Pontius Pilate
1988 · Valeriano
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982 · Giuseppe
Los crápulas
1981
Lend Me Your Wife
1980 · Alex Fortini
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978 · Memé Di Costanzo
Una noche embarazosa
1977 · Amalio Badalamenti
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976 · Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Il gatto mammone
1975 · Lollo Mascalucia
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975 · Costante Nicosia
Il fidanzamento
1975 · Luigi Mannozzi
The Household
1974 · Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
The Handsome Devil
1974 · Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
Playing the Field
1974 · Carmelo Lo Cascio
My Darling Slave
1973 · Demetrio Cultura
Io e lui
1973 · Rico
Wife for Sale
1973 · Furio Cicerone
La calandria
1972 · Lidio
Jus primae noctis
1972 · Ariberto da Ficulle
The Migratory Bird
1972 · Andrea Pomeraro
The Union
1972 · Saverio Ravizzi
The Eroticist
1972 · Senatore Gianni Puppis
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972 · Ham
Secret Fantasy
1971 · Niccolo Vivaldi
Homo Eroticus
1971 · Michele Cannaritta
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971 · Rosario Trapenese
The Beasts
1971 · Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
The Lovemakers
1970 · Carlo Danieli
The Married Priest
1970 · Don Salvatore
When Women Had Tails
1970 · Kao
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970 · Ricky Ceciarelli
The Conjugal Debt
1970 · Orazio
The Beast
1970 · Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
1970 · Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Un caso di coscienza
1970 · Salvatore Vaccagnino
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969 · Nunzio di Licordia
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969 · Vittorio Coppa
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969 · Marcello Agost
La donna a una dimensione
1969 · Tv-host
House of Pleasure
1969 · Conte Lombardini
Criminal Affair
1968 · Esteban de Flori
Better a Widow
1968
Sunstroke
1968 · Giovanni Angelo Errani
Operation San Pietro
1967 · Napoleone
Anyone Can Play
1967 · ricattatore
Spia spione
1967 · Carlo Barazzetti
Don Juan in Sicily
1967 · Giovanni Percolla
A Rose for Everyone
1967 · Lino
After the Fox
1966 · Police Chief
Our Husbands
1966 · Ragionier Manzi
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966 · Serg. Gringo
For a Few Dollars Less
1966 · Bill
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966 · James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Made in Italy
1965 · Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965 · James Tont Agent 007 1/2
The Double Bed
1965 · Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
Su e giù
1965 · Cuccio
Wrong Beds
1965 · Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
The Sucker
1965 · Lino, le barbier
Extraconiugale
1964 · Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964 · Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Love and Marriage
1964 · (segment "Prima notte, La")
Corpse for the Lady
1964 · Enzo, fratello di Laura
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964 · Lo sposo
Love in Four Dimensions
1964 · (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
La paura numero uno
1964 · Il Brigadiere
Seduced and Abandoned
1964 · Antonio Ascalone
Senza sole nè luna
1964 · Bruno
The Monsters
1963 · Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
The Eye of the Needle
1963 · Carabiniere Sanfilippo
The Little Nuns
1963 · Amilcare Franzetti
The Girl from Parma
1963 · Michele Pantanò
His Days Are Numbered
1962 · Cesare's Son
Divorce Italian Style
1961 · Rosario Mulè
La trincea
1961 · soldato italiano
Ben-Hur
1959 · Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Series (8)
Deadly Game
2013 · Franco Binasco (2013)
Il restauratore
2012 · Basilio Corsi
Terra ribelle
2010 · General Malagridas
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010 · Bernardo Tanlongo
The Baroness of Carini
2007 · Don Ippolito
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005 · Federico Vivaldi
Libero
2000 · Ospite speciale
Io, Gigliola
1966