Lando Buzzanca
89 movies · 7 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 24, 1935
- Died
- Dec 18, 2022 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- Also known as
- Gerlando Buzzanca
Biography
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Gerlando Buzzanca (born August 24, 1935 in Palermo) is an Italian comedy actor.
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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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Known for
Lando Buzzanca: movies and TV shows
Acting (96)
- 2018 W gli sposi
as Reverend
- 2017 Who Will Save The Roses?
as Claudio
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010
- 2007 I Vicerè
as Prince Giacomo
- 2007
- 2007 Chiara e Francesco
as Pietro di Bernardone
- 2005 Incidenti
as presentatore
- 2005
- 2003
- 2003 Quattro passi nel Cinema
as Anfitrione
- 2000 Honey Horn
as Marino
- 2000 Il segreto del giaguaro
as Mazzaro
- 1999 The Bird People
as Antonio Lombardi
- 1994 Once a Year, Every Year
as Mario
- 1989 Cinema
as Francisco
- 1988
- 1988 According to Pontius Pilate
as Valeriano
- 1982 I'm Going to Live by Myself
as Giuseppe
- 1981
- 1980 Lend Me Your Wife
as Alex Fortini
- 1978 Swept Away by Family Affection
as Memé Di Costanzo
- 1977 Una noche embarazosa
as Amalio Badalamenti
- 1976 San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
- 1975 Il gatto mammone
as Lollo Mascalucia
- 1975 Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Costante Nicosia
- 1975 Il fidanzamento
as Luigi Mannozzi
- 1974 The Household
as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
- 1974 The Handsome Devil
as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
- 1974 Playing the Field
as Carmelo Lo Cascio
- 1973 My Darling Slave
as Demetrio Cultura
- 1973 Io e lui
as Rico
- 1973 Wife for Sale
as Furio Cicerone
- 1972 La calandria
as Lidio
- 1972 Jus primae noctis
as Ariberto da Ficulle
- 1972 The Migratory Bird
as Andrea Pomeraro
- 1972 The Union
as Saverio Ravizzi
- 1972 The Eroticist
as Senatore Gianni Puppis
- 1972 When Women Lost Their Tails
as Ham
- 1971 Secret Fantasy
as Niccolo Vivaldi
- 1971 Homo Eroticus
as Michele Cannaritta
- 1971 No One Will Notice You're Naked
as Rosario Trapenese
- 1971 The Beasts
as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
- 1970 The Lovemakers
as Carlo Danieli
- 1970 The Married Priest
as Don Salvatore
- 1970 When Women Had Tails
as Kao
- 1970 Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Ricky Ceciarelli
- 1970 The Conjugal Debt
as Orazio
- 1970 The Beast
as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
- 1970 On the Day of the Lord
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
- 1970 Un caso di coscienza
as Salvatore Vaccagnino
- 1969 Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
as Nunzio di Licordia
- 1969 The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
as Vittorio Coppa
- 1969 Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Marcello Agost
- 1969 La donna a una dimensione
as Tv-host
- 1969 House of Pleasure
as Conte Lombardini
- 1968 Criminal Affair
as Esteban de Flori
- 1968
- 1968 Sunstroke
as Giovanni Angelo Errani
- 1967 Operation 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 Our Husbands
as Ragionier Manzi
- 1966 Ringo and Gringo Against All
as Serg. Gringo
- 1966 For a Few Dollars Less
as Bill
- 1966 James Tont Operation T.W.O.
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
- 1966
- 1965 Made in Italy
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
- 1965 James Tont Operation U.N.O.
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
- 1965 The Double Bed
as Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
- 1965 Su e giù
as Cuccio
- 1965 Wrong Beds
as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
- 1965 The Sucker
as Lino, le barbier
- 1964 Extraconiugale
as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
- 1964 The Magnificent Cuckold
as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
- 1964 Love and Marriage
as (segment "Prima notte, La")
- 1964 Corpse for the Lady
as Enzo, fratello di Laura
- 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 Il Brigadiere
- 1964 Seduced and Abandoned
as Antonio Ascalone
- 1964 Senza sole nè luna
as Bruno
- 1963 The Monsters
as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
- 1963 The Eye of the Needle
as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
- 1963 The Little Nuns
as Amilcare Franzetti
- 1963 The Girl from Parma
as Michele Pantanò
- 1962 His Days Are Numbered
as Cesare's Son
- 1961 Divorce Italian Style
as Rosario Mulè
- 1961 La trincea
as soldato italiano
- 1959 Ben-Hur
as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 2009
- 2004
- 2000 Libero
1 episode