Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 24, 1935
Died
Dec 18, 2022
Place of Birth
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Credits
99 titles
Lando Buzzanca
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. 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
Filmography
W gli sposi
Reverend
Who Will Save The Roses?
Claudio
Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013)
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi
Case Chiuse
Terra ribelle
General Malagridas
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
The Baroness of Carini
Don Ippolito
Chiara e Francesco
Pietro di Bernardone
Incidenti
presentatore
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Federico Vivaldi
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Self
Una famiglia per caso
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Anfitrione
Honey Horn
Marino
Il segreto del giaguaro
Mazzaro
Libero
Ospite speciale
The Bird People
Antonio Lombardi
Once a Year, Every Year
Mario
Cinema
Francisco
O Diabo na Cama
According to Pontius Pilate
Valeriano
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Giuseppe
Los crápulas
Lend Me Your Wife
Alex Fortini
Swept Away by Family Affection
Memé Di Costanzo
Una noche embarazosa
Amalio Badalamenti
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Il gatto mammone
Lollo Mascalucia
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Costante Nicosia
Il fidanzamento
Luigi Mannozzi
The Household
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
The Handsome Devil
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
Playing the Field
Carmelo Lo Cascio
My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultura
Io e lui
Rico
Wife for Sale
Furio Cicerone
La calandria
Lidio
Jus primae noctis
Ariberto da Ficulle
The Migratory Bird
Andrea Pomeraro
The Union
Saverio Ravizzi
The Eroticist
Senatore Gianni Puppis
When Women Lost Their Tails
Ham
Secret Fantasy
Niccolo Vivaldi
Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapenese
The Beasts
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli