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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Acted in
W gli sposi
2018
as Reverend
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017
as Claudio
Deadly Game
2013
as Franco Binasco (2013)
Il restauratore
2012
as Basilio Corsi
Case Chiuse
2011
Terra ribelle
2010
as Generale Malagridas
Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
as Bernardo Tanlongo
I Vicerè
2007
as Prince Giacomo
La Baronessa di Carini
2007
as Don Ippolito
Chiara e Francesco
2007
as Pietro di Bernardone
Incidenti
2005
as presentatore
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005
as Federico Vivaldi
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
Una famiglia per caso
2003
Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003
as Anfitrione
Cornetti al miele
2000
as Marino
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000
as Mazzaro
Libero
2000
as Ospite speciale
The Bird People
1999
as Antonio Lombardi
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
as Mario
Cinema
1989
as Francisco
O Diabo na Cama
1988
Secondo Ponzio Pilato
1987
as Valeriano
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982
as Giuseppe
Los crápulas
1981
Lend Me Your Wife
1980
as Alex Fortini
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978
as Memé Di Costanzo
Una noche embarazosa
1977
as Amalio Badalamenti
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Il gatto mammone
1975
as Lollo Mascalucia
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
as Costante Nicosia
Il fidanzamento
1975
as Luigi Mannozzi
The Household
1974
as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
The Handsome Devil
1974
as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
Playing the Field
1974
as Carmelo Lo Cascio
My Darling Slave
1973
as Demetrio Cultura
Io e lui
1973
as Rico
Wife for Sale
1973
La calandria
1972
as Lidio
Jus primae noctis
1972
as Ariberto da Ficulle
The Migratory Bird
1972
as Andrea Pomeraro
The Union
1972
as Saverio Ravizzi
The Eroticist
1972
as Senatore Gianni Puppis
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972
as Ham
Secret Fantasy
1971
as Niccolo Vivaldi
Homo Eroticus
1971
as Michele Cannaritta
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971
as Rosario Trapenese
The Beasts
1971
as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
The Lovemakers
1970
as Carlo Danieli
The Married Priest
1970
as Don Salvatore
When Women Had Tails
1970
as Kao
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
as Ricky Ceciarelli
The Conjugal Debt
1970
as Orazio
The Beast
1970
as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
1970
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Un caso di coscienza
1970
as Salvatore Vaccagnino
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969
as Nunzio di Licordia
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969
as Vittorio Coppa
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
as Marcello Agost
La donna a una dimensione
1969
as Tv-host
House of Pleasure
1969
as Conte Lombardini
Criminal Affair
1968
as Esteban de Flori
Better a Widow
1968
Sunstroke
1968
as Giovanni Angelo Errani
Operation San Pietro
1967
as Napoleone
Anyone Can Play
1967
as ricattatore
Spia spione
1967
as Carlo Barazzetti
Don Juan in Sicily
1967
as Giovanni Percolla
A Rose for Everyone
1967
as Lino
After the Fox
1966
as Police Chief
Our Husbands
1966
as Ragionier Manzi
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966
as Serg. Gringo
For a Few Dollars Less
1966
as Bill
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Made in Italy
1965
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
The Double Bed
1965
as Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
Su e giù
1965
as Cuccio
Letti sbagliati
1965
as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
The Sucker
1965
as Lino, le barbier
Extraconiugale
1964
as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Love and Marriage
1964
as (segment "Prima notte, La")
Corpse for the Lady
1964
as Enzo, fratello di Laura
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964
as Lo sposo
Love in Four Dimensions
1964
as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
La paura numero uno
1964
as Il Brigadiere
Seduced and Abandoned
1964
as Antonio Ascalone
Senza sole nè luna
1964
as Bruno
The Monsters
1963
as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
The Eye of the Needle
1963
as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
The Little Nuns
1963
as Amilcare Franzetti
The Girl from Parma
1963
as Michele Pantanò
His Days Are Numbered
1962
as Cesare's Son
Divorce Italian Style
1961
as Rosario Mulè
Ben-Hur
1959
as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)