Lando Buzzanca
Acting
Born August 24, 1935 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lando Buzzanca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Films (91)
W gli sposi
2018
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017
Case Chiuse
2011
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
I Vicerè
2007
Chiara e Francesco
2007
Incidenti
2005
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
Honey Horn
2000
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000
The Bird People
1999
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
Cinema
1989
O Diabo na Cama
1988
According to Pontius Pilate
1988
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982
Los crápulas
1981
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 cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
Il fidanzamento
1975
The Household
1974
The Handsome Devil
1974
Playing the Field
1974
My Darling Slave
1973
Io e lui
1973
Wife for Sale
1973
La calandria
1972
Jus primae noctis
1972
The Migratory Bird
1972
The Union
1972
The Eroticist
1972
When Women Lost Their Tails
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
When Women Had Tails
1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
The Conjugal Debt
1970
The Beast
1970
On the Day of the Lord
1970
Un caso di coscienza
1970
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
La donna a una dimensione
1969
House of Pleasure
1969
Criminal Affair
1968
Better a Widow
1968
Sunstroke
1968
Operation San Pietro
1967
Anyone Can Play
1967
Spia spione
1967
Don Juan in Sicily
1967
A Rose for Everyone
1967
After the Fox
1966
Our Husbands
1966
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966
For a Few Dollars Less
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
Wrong Beds
1965
The Sucker
1965
Extraconiugale
1964
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
Love and Marriage
1964
Corpse for the Lady
1964
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964
Love in Four Dimensions
1964
La paura numero uno
1964
Seduced and Abandoned
1964
Senza sole nè luna
1964
The Monsters
1963
The Eye of the Needle
1963
The Little Nuns
1963
The Girl from Parma
1963
His Days are Numbered
1962
Divorce Italian Style
1961
Ben-Hur
1959