Lando Buzzanca
Acting
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.
Known for
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movieW gli sposi
2018
Reverend
tvDeadly Game
2013
Franco Binasco (2013)
tvIl restauratore
2012
Basilio Corsi
tvTerra ribelle
2010
General Malagridas
tvLo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
Bernardo Tanlongo
movieLo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
Bernardo Tanlongo
movieI Vicerè
2007
Prince Giacomo
tvThe Baroness of Carini
2007
Don Ippolito
movieChiara e Francesco
2007
Pietro di Bernardone
movieIncidenti
2005
presentatore
tvIo e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005
Federico Vivaldi
movieHow We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
Self
movieQuattro passi nel Cinema
2003
Anfitrione
movieHoney Horn
2000
Marino
tvLibero
2000
Ospite speciale
movieThe Bird People
1999
Antonio Lombardi
Cinema
1989
Francisco
movieAccording to Pontius Pilate
1988
Valeriano
movieLend Me Your Wife
1980
Alex Fortini
movieSwept Away by Family Affection
1978
Memé Di Costanzo
movieUna noche embarazosa
1977
Amalio Badalamenti
movieSan Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
movieIl gatto mammone
1975
Lollo Mascalucia
movieIl fidanzamento
1975
Luigi Mannozzi
movieThe Household
1974
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
movieThe Handsome Devil
1974
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
moviePlaying the Field
1974
Carmelo Lo Cascio
movieMy Darling Slave
1973
Demetrio Cultura
movieWife for Sale
1973
Furio Cicerone
movieJus primae noctis
1972
Ariberto da Ficulle
movieThe Migratory Bird
1972
Andrea Pomeraro
movieThe Union
1972
Saverio Ravizzi
movieThe Eroticist
1972
Senatore Gianni Puppis
movieSecret Fantasy
1971
Niccolo Vivaldi
movieHomo Eroticus
1971
Michele Cannaritta
movieNo One Will Notice You're Naked
1971
Rosario Trapenese
movieThe Beasts
1971
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
movieThe Lovemakers
1970
Carlo Danieli
movieThe Married Priest
1970
Don Salvatore
movieStop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
Ricky Ceciarelli
movieThe Beast
1970
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
movieOn the Day of the Lord
1970
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
movieUn caso di coscienza
1970
Salvatore Vaccagnino
moviePuro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969
Nunzio di Licordia
movieThe Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969
Vittorio Coppa
movieMonte Carlo or Bust!
1969
Marcello Agost
movieHouse of Pleasure
1969
Conte Lombardini
movieCriminal Affair
1968
Esteban de Flori
movieSunstroke
1968
Giovanni Angelo Errani
movieOperation San Pietro
1967
Napoleone
movieAnyone Can Play
1967
ricattatore
movieSpia spione
1967
Carlo Barazzetti
movieDon Juan in Sicily
1967
Giovanni Percolla
movieAfter the Fox
1966
Police Chief
movieOur Husbands
1966
Ragionier Manzi
movieRingo and Gringo Against All
1966
Serg. Gringo
movieJames Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
movieMade in Italy
1965
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
movieJames Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
movieThe Double Bed
1965
Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
movieSu e giù
1965
Cuccio
movieWrong Beds
1965
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
movieThe Sucker
1965
Lino, le barbier
movieExtraconiugale
1964
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
movieThe Magnificent Cuckold
1964
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
movieLove and Marriage
1964
(segment "Prima notte, La")
movieCorpse for the Lady
1964
Enzo, fratello di Laura
movieLove in Four Dimensions
1964
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
movieLa paura numero uno
1964
Il Brigadiere
movieSeduced and Abandoned
1964
Antonio Ascalone
movieThe Monsters
1963
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
movieThe Eye of the Needle
1963
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
movieThe Little Nuns
1963
Amilcare Franzetti
movieThe Girl from Parma
1963
Michele Pantanò
movieHis Days Are Numbered
1962
Cesare's Son
movieDivorce Italian Style
1961
Rosario Mulè
movieLa trincea
1961
soldato italiano
movieBen-Hur
1959
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)