Lando Buzzanca
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
Credits
- 2018 · W gli sposi as Reverend
- 2017 · Who Will Save The Roses? as Claudio
- 2013 · Deadly Game as Franco Binasco (2013)
- 2012 · Il restauratore as Basilio Corsi
- 2011 · Case Chiuse as
- 2010 · Terra ribelle as Generale Malagridas
- 2010 · Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana as Bernardo Tanlongo
- 2007 · I Vicerè as Prince Giacomo
- 2007 · La Baronessa di Carini as Don Ippolito
- 2007 · Chiara e Francesco as Pietro di Bernardone
- 2005 · Incidenti as presentatore
- 2005 · Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi as Federico Vivaldi
- 2004 · How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio as
- 2003 · Una famiglia per caso as
- 2003 · Quattro passi nel Cinema as Anfitrione
- 2000 · Cornetti al miele as Marino
- 2000 · Il segreto del giaguaro as Mazzaro
- 2000 · Libero as Ospite speciale
- 1999 · The Bird People as Antonio Lombardi
- 1994 · Once a Year, Every Year as Mario
- 1989 · Cinema as Francisco
- 1988 · O Diabo na Cama as
- 1988 · Secondo Ponzio Pilato as Valeriano
- 1982 · I'm Going to Live by Myself as Giuseppe
- 1981 · Los crápulas as
- 1980 · Lend Me Your Wife as Alex Fortini
- 1978 · Swept Away by Family Affection as Memé Di Costanzo
- 1977 · Una noche embarazosa as Amalio Badalamenti
- 1976 · San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
- 1975 · Il gatto mammone as Lollo Mascalucia
- 1975 · The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza as Costante Nicosia
- 1975 · Il fidanzamento as Luigi Mannozzi
- 1974 · The Household as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
- 1974 · The Handsome Devil as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
- 1974 · Playing the Field as Carmelo Lo Cascio
- 1973 · My Darling Slave as Demetrio Cultura
- 1973 · Io e lui as Rico
- 1973 · Wife for Sale as
- 1972 · La calandria as Lidio
- 1972 · Jus primae noctis as Ariberto da Ficulle
- 1972 · The Migratory Bird as Andrea Pomeraro
- 1972 · The Union as Saverio Ravizzi
- 1972 · The Eroticist as Senatore Gianni Puppis
- 1972 · When Women Lost Their Tails as Ham
- 1971 · Secret Fantasy as Niccolo Vivaldi
- 1971 · Homo Eroticus as Michele Cannaritta
- 1971 · No One Will Notice You're Naked as Rosario Trapenese
- 1971 · The Beasts as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
- 1970 · The Lovemakers as Carlo Danieli
- 1970 · The Married Priest as Don Salvatore
- 1970 · When Women Had Tails as Kao
- 1970 · Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! as Ricky Ceciarelli
- 1970 · The Conjugal Debt as Orazio
- 1970 · The Beast as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
- 1970 · On the Day of the Lord as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
- 1970 · Un caso di coscienza as Salvatore Vaccagnino
- 1969 · Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza as Nunzio di Licordia
- 1969 · The Viking Who Became a Bigamist as Vittorio Coppa
- 1969 · Monte Carlo or Bust! as Marcello Agost
- 1969 · La donna a una dimensione as Tv-host
- 1969 · House of Pleasure as Conte Lombardini
- 1968 · Criminal Affair as Esteban de Flori
- 1968 · Better a Widow as
- 1968 · Sunstroke as Giovanni Angelo Errani
- 1967 · Operation San Pietro as Napoleone
- 1967 · Anyone Can Play as ricattatore
- 1967 · Spia spione as Carlo Barazzetti
- 1967 · Don Juan in Sicily as Giovanni Percolla
- 1967 · A Rose for Everyone as Lino
- 1966 · After the Fox as Police Chief
- 1966 · Our Husbands as Ragionier Manzi
- 1966 · Ringo and Gringo Against All as Serg. Gringo
- 1966 · For a Few Dollars Less as Bill
- 1966 · James Tont Operation T.W.O. as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
- 1965 · Made in Italy as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
- 1965 · James Tont Operation U.N.O. as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
- 1965 · The Double Bed as Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
- 1965 · Su e giù as Cuccio
- 1965 · Letti sbagliati as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
- 1965 · The Sucker as Lino, le barbier
- 1964 · Extraconiugale as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
- 1964 · The Magnificent Cuckold as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
- 1964 · Love and Marriage as (segment "Prima notte, La")
- 1964 · Corpse for the Lady as Enzo, fratello di Laura
- 1964 · The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars as Lo sposo
- 1964 · Love in Four Dimensions as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
- 1964 · La paura numero uno as Il Brigadiere
- 1964 · Seduced and Abandoned as Antonio Ascalone
- 1964 · Senza sole nè luna as Bruno
- 1963 · The Monsters as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
- 1963 · The Eye of the Needle as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
- 1963 · The Little Nuns as Amilcare Franzetti
- 1963 · The Girl from Parma as Michele Pantanò
- 1962 · His Days Are Numbered as Cesare's Son
- 1961 · Divorce Italian Style as Rosario Mulè
- 1959 · Ben-Hur as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)