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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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Filmography
all 100
Movies 94
TV Shows 6
self 2
W gli sposi (2018)
Deadly Game (2013)
Il restauratore (2012)
Terra ribelle (2010)
Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana (2010)
I Vicerè (2007)
La Baronessa di Carini (2007)
Chiara e Francesco (2007)
Incidenti (2005)
Mio figlio (2005)
Quattro passi nel Cinema (2003)
Libero (2000)
The Bird People (1999)
Cinema (1989)
Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1987)
Lend Me Your Wife (1980)
Swept Away by Family Affection (1978)
Una noche embarazosa (1977)
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women (1976)
Il gatto mammone (1975)
Il fidanzamento (1975)
The Handsome Devil (1974)
Playing the Field (1974)
My Darling Slave (1973)
Wife for Sale (1973)
Jus primae noctis (1972)
The Migratory Bird (1972)
The Union (1972)
The Eroticist (1972)
Secret Fantasy (1971)
Homo Eroticus (1971)
No One Will Notice You're Naked (1971)
The Beasts (1971)
The Lovemakers (1970)
The Married Priest (1970)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! (1970)
The Beast (1970)
On the Day of the Lord (1970)
Un caso di coscienza (1970)
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist (1969)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
House of Pleasure (1969)
Criminal Affair (1968)
Sunstroke (1968)
Operation San Pietro (1967)
Anyone Can Play (1967)
Spia spione (1967)
Don Juan in Sicily (1967)
After the Fox (1966)
Our Husbands (1966)
Ringo and Gringo Against All (1966)
James Tont Operation T.W.O. (1966)
Made in Italy (1965)
James Tont Operation U.N.O. (1965)
The Double Bed (1965)
Su e giù (1965)
Letti sbagliati (1965)
The Sucker (1965)
Extraconiugale (1964)
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
Love and Marriage (1964)
Corpse for the Lady (1964)
Love in Four Dimensions (1964)
La paura numero uno (1964)
Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
The Monsters (1963)
The Eye of the Needle (1963)
The Little Nuns (1963)
The Girl from Parma (1963)
Il mondo è una prigione (1962)
His Days Are Numbered (1962)
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Ben-Hur (1959)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1935-08-24
Deathday2022-12-18 (87 years old)
Birth NameGerlando Buzzanca
Birth PlacePalermo, Italy
FatherEmpedocle Buzzanca
RelativesGino Buzzanca
CitizenshipsItaly
Also Known AsGerlando Buzzanca
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