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Lando Buzzanca
Actor

Lando Buzzanca

24 Aug 1935Born
18 Dec 2022Died
87Age at death
97Credits

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.

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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

Filmography

The 80 most recent of 97 credits.

  1. 2018W gli sposiFilm: Reverend
  2. 2017Who Will Save The Roses?Film: Claudio
  3. 2013Deadly GameSeries: Franco Binasco (2013) (2 episodes)
  4. 2012Il restauratoreSeries: Basilio Corsi (28 episodes)
  5. 2011Case ChiuseFilm
  6. 2010Terra ribelleSeries: General Malagridas (8 episodes)
  7. 2010Lo scandalo della Banca RomanaSeries: Bernardo Tanlongo (2 episodes)
  8. 2007I VicerèFilm: Prince Giacomo
  9. 2007The Baroness of CariniSeries: Don Ippolito (2 episodes)
  10. 2007Chiara e FrancescoFilm: Pietro di Bernardone
  11. 2005IncidentiFilm: presentatore
  12. 2005Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario VivaldiSeries: Federico Vivaldi (12 episodes)
  13. 2003Una famiglia per casoFilm
  14. 2003Quattro passi nel CinemaFilm: Anfitrione
  15. 2000Honey HornFilm: Marino
  16. 2000Il segreto del giaguaroFilm: Mazzaro
  17. 2000LiberoSeries: Ospite speciale (1 episode)
  18. 1999The Bird PeopleFilm: Antonio Lombardi
  19. 1994Once a Year, Every YearFilm: Mario
  20. 1989CinemaFilm: Francisco
  21. 1988O Diabo na CamaFilm
  22. 1988According to Pontius PilateFilm: Valeriano
  23. 1982I'm Going to Live by MyselfFilm: Giuseppe
  24. 1981Los crápulasFilm
  25. 1980Lend Me Your WifeFilm: Alex Fortini
  26. 1978Swept Away by Family AffectionFilm: Memé Di Costanzo
  27. 1977Una noche embarazosaFilm: Amalio Badalamenti
  28. 1976San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of WomenFilm: Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
  29. 1975Il gatto mammoneFilm: Lollo Mascalucia
  30. 1975Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in BrianzaFilm: Costante Nicosia
  31. 1975Il fidanzamentoFilm: Luigi Mannozzi
  32. 1974The HouseholdFilm: Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
  33. 1974The Handsome DevilFilm: Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
  34. 1974Playing the FieldFilm: Carmelo Lo Cascio
  35. 1973My Darling SlaveFilm: Demetrio Cultura
  36. 1973Io e luiFilm: Rico
  37. 1973Wife for SaleFilm: Furio Cicerone
  38. 1972La calandriaFilm: Lidio
  39. 1972Jus primae noctisFilm: Ariberto da Ficulle
  40. 1972The Migratory BirdFilm: Andrea Pomeraro
  41. 1972The UnionFilm: Saverio Ravizzi
  42. 1972The EroticistFilm: Senatore Gianni Puppis
  43. 1972When Women Lost Their TailsFilm: Ham
  44. 1971Secret FantasyFilm: Niccolo Vivaldi
  45. 1971Homo EroticusFilm: Michele Cannaritta
  46. 1971No One Will Notice You're NakedFilm: Rosario Trapenese
  47. 1971The BeastsFilm: Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
  48. 1970The LovemakersFilm: Carlo Danieli
  49. 1970The Married PriestFilm: Don Salvatore
  50. 1970When Women Had TailsFilm: Kao
  51. 1970Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!Film: Ricky Ceciarelli
  52. 1970The Conjugal DebtFilm: Orazio
  53. 1970The BeastFilm: Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
  54. 1970On the Day of the LordFilm: Primo fidanzato di Margherita
  55. 1970Un caso di coscienzaFilm: Salvatore Vaccagnino
  56. 1969Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di MonzaFilm: Nunzio di Licordia
  57. 1969The Viking Who Became a BigamistFilm: Vittorio Coppa
  58. 1969Monte Carlo or Bust!Film: Marcello Agost
  59. 1969La donna a una dimensioneFilm: Tv-host
  60. 1969House of PleasureFilm: Conte Lombardini
  61. 1968Criminal AffairFilm: Esteban de Flori
  62. 1968Better a WidowFilm
  63. 1968SunstrokeFilm: Giovanni Angelo Errani
  64. 1967Operation San PietroFilm: Napoleone
  65. 1967Anyone Can PlayFilm: ricattatore
  66. 1967Spia spioneFilm: Carlo Barazzetti
  67. 1967Don Juan in SicilyFilm: Giovanni Percolla
  68. 1967A Rose for EveryoneFilm: Lino
  69. 1966After the FoxFilm: Police Chief
  70. 1966Our HusbandsFilm: Ragionier Manzi
  71. 1966Ringo and Gringo Against AllFilm: Serg. Gringo
  72. 1966For a Few Dollars LessFilm: Bill
  73. 1966James Tont Operation T.W.O.Film: James Tont Agent 007 1/2
  74. 1966Io, GigliolaSeries (1 episode)
  75. 1965Made in ItalyFilm: Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
  76. 1965James Tont Operation U.N.O.Film: James Tont Agent 007 1/2
  77. 1965The Double BedFilm: Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
  78. 1965Su e giùFilm: Cuccio
  79. 1965Wrong BedsFilm: Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
  80. 1965The SuckerFilm: Lino, le barbier

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