Lando Buzzanca
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 24, 1935
- Died
- December 18, 2022 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.
Known For
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Filmography
W gli sposi
Movie · as Reverend
Who Will Save The Roses?
Movie · as Claudio
Deadly Game
TV · as Franco Binasco (2013) · 2 eps
Il restauratore
TV · as Basilio Corsi · 28 eps
Case Chiuse
Movie
Terra ribelle
TV · as General Malagridas · 8 eps
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
TV · as Bernardo Tanlongo · 2 eps
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Movie · as Self
I Vicerè
Movie · as Prince Giacomo
Chiara e Francesco
Movie · as Pietro di Bernardone
The Baroness of Carini
TV · as Don Ippolito · 2 eps
Incidenti
Movie · as presentatore
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
TV · as Federico Vivaldi · 12 eps
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Movie · as Self
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Movie · as Anfitrione
Una famiglia per caso
Movie
Il segreto del giaguaro
Movie · as Mazzaro
Honey Horn
Movie · as Marino
Libero
TV · as Ospite speciale · 1 ep
The Bird People
Movie · as Antonio Lombardi
Once a Year, Every Year
Movie · as Mario
Cinema
Movie · as Francisco
According to Pontius Pilate
Movie · as Valeriano
O Diabo na Cama
Movie
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Movie · as Giuseppe
Los crápulas
Movie
Lend Me Your Wife
Movie · as Alex Fortini
Swept Away by Family Affection
Movie · as Memé Di Costanzo
Una noche embarazosa
Movie · as Amalio Badalamenti
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Movie · as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Il gatto mammone
Movie · as Lollo Mascalucia
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Movie · as Costante Nicosia
Il fidanzamento
Movie · as Luigi Mannozzi
The Handsome Devil
Movie · as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
The Household
Movie · as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
Playing the Field
Movie · as Carmelo Lo Cascio
My Darling Slave
Movie · as Demetrio Cultura
Wife for Sale
Movie · as Furio Cicerone
Io e lui
Movie · as Rico
The Eroticist
Movie · as Senatore Gianni Puppis
When Women Lost Their Tails
Movie · as Ham
La calandria
Movie · as Lidio
The Union
Movie · as Saverio Ravizzi
The Migratory Bird
Movie · as Andrea Pomeraro
Jus primae noctis
Movie · as Ariberto da Ficulle
Secret Fantasy
Movie · as Niccolo Vivaldi
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Movie · as Rosario Trapenese
Homo Eroticus
Movie · as Michele Cannaritta
The Beasts
Movie · as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
The Beast
Movie · as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
The Conjugal Debt
Movie · as Orazio
When Women Had Tails
Movie · as Kao
The Lovemakers
Movie · as Carlo Danieli
On the Day of the Lord
Movie · as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Movie · as Ricky Ceciarelli
Un caso di coscienza
Movie · as Salvatore Vaccagnino
The Married Priest
Movie · as Don Salvatore
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Movie · as Marcello Agost
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Movie · as Vittorio Coppa
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Movie · as Nunzio di Licordia
House of Pleasure
Movie · as Conte Lombardini
La donna a una dimensione
Movie · as Tv-host
Sunstroke
Movie · as Giovanni Angelo Errani
Better a Widow
Movie
Criminal Affair
Movie · as Esteban de Flori
Operation San Pietro
Movie · as Napoleone
Anyone Can Play
Movie · as ricattatore
Don Juan in Sicily
Movie · as Giovanni Percolla
Spia spione
Movie · as Carlo Barazzetti
A Rose for Everyone
Movie · as Lino
For a Few Dollars Less
Movie · as Bill
Our Husbands
Movie · as Ragionier Manzi
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Movie · as Serg. Gringo
After the Fox
Movie · as Police Chief
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Movie · as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Io, Gigliola
TV · 1 ep
The Sucker
Movie · as Lino, le barbier
Made in Italy
Movie · as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
Wrong Beds
Movie · as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
The Double Bed
Movie · as Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
Movie · as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Su e giù
Movie · as Cuccio
Seduced and Abandoned
Movie · as Antonio Ascalone
Senza sole nè luna
Movie · as Bruno
Love in Four Dimensions
Movie · as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Love and Marriage
Movie · as (segment "Prima notte, La")
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Movie · as Lo sposo
Corpse for the Lady
Movie · as Enzo, fratello di Laura
The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie · as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Extraconiugale
Movie · as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
La paura numero uno
Movie · as Il Brigadiere
The Monsters
Movie · as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
The Girl from Parma
Movie · as Michele Pantanò
The Eye of the Needle
Movie · as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
The Little Nuns
Movie · as Amilcare Franzetti
His Days Are Numbered
Movie · as Cesare's Son
Divorce Italian Style
Movie · as Rosario Mulè
La trincea
Movie · as soldato italiano
Ben-Hur
Movie · as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)