Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1935-08-24
Deathday: 2022-12-18 (87 years old)

Biography

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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

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Movies 94

TV Shows 6

self 2

Franco Binasco (2013)
Deadly Game

Deadly Game (2013)

TV
Generale Malagridas
Terra ribelle

Terra ribelle (2010)

TV
Principe Giacomo
I Vicerè

I Vicerè (2007)

Movie
Pietro di Bernardone
Chiara e Francesco

Chiara e Francesco (2007)

Movie
Federico Vivaldi
Mio figlio

Mio figlio (2005)

Movie
Ospite speciale
Libero

Libero (2000)

TV
Lollo & Lollo's Father
Il gatto mammone

Il gatto mammone (1975)

Movie
Gaetano Avallone, 'Tano'
The Handsome Devil

The Handsome Devil (1974)

Movie
Saverio Ravizzi
The Union

The Union (1972)

Movie
Senator Giacinto Puppis
The Eroticist

The Eroticist (1972)

Movie
Michele Cannaritta
Homo Eroticus

Homo Eroticus (1971)

Movie
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
The Beast

The Beast (1970)

Movie
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
On the Day of the Lord

On the Day of the Lord (1970)

Movie
Giovanni Angelo Errani
Sunstroke

Sunstroke (1968)

Movie
Carlo Barazzetti
Spia spione

Spia spione (1967)

Movie
Ragionier Giovannino Manzi (segment "Il marito di Olga")
Our Husbands

Our Husbands (1966)

Movie
James Tont aka Giacomino Tontonati
James Tont Operation T.W.O.

James Tont Operation T.W.O. (1966)

Movie
Giulio (segment '1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2')
Made in Italy

Made in Italy (1965)

Movie
James Tont aka Giacomino Tontonati
James Tont Operation U.N.O.

James Tont Operation U.N.O. (1965)

Movie
Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
The Double Bed

The Double Bed (1965)

Movie
Cuccio (segment "Questione di Principo")
Su e giù

Su e giù (1965)

Movie
Birolli (segment "Il complicato")
Letti sbagliati

Letti sbagliati (1965)

Movie
Lino, le barbier
The Sucker

The Sucker (1965)

Movie
1
Roberto Savello, suo fratello (segment "La doccia")
Extraconiugale

Extraconiugale (1964)

Movie
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
The Magnificent Cuckold

The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)

Movie
(segment "Prima notte, La")
Love and Marriage

Love and Marriage (1964)

Movie
Enzo, fratello di Laura
Corpse for the Lady

Corpse for the Lady (1964)

Movie
(segment 'Amore e alfabeto')
Love in Four Dimensions

Love in Four Dimensions (1964)

Movie
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
The Monsters

The Monsters (1963)

Movie
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
The Eye of the Needle

The Eye of the Needle (1963)

Movie
Amilcare Franzetti
The Little Nuns

The Little Nuns (1963)

Movie
Prigioniero che ha staccato i manifesti
Il mondo è una prigione

Il mondo è una prigione (1962)

Movie
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur (1959)

Movie
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Information

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1935-08-24

Deathday
2022-12-18 (87 years old)

Birth Name
Gerlando Buzzanca

Birth Place
Palermo, Italy

Father
Empedocle Buzzanca

Relatives
Gino Buzzanca

Citizenships
Italy

Also Known As
Gerlando Buzzanca

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