Lando Buzzanca
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-08-24
Day of Death
2022-12-18 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.
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Acting
(2018)
W gli sposi
as Reverend
(2017)
Who Will Save The Roses?
as Claudio
(2011)
(2010)
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
as Bernardo Tanlongo
(2009)
(2007)
I Vicerè
as Prince Giacomo
(2007)
Chiara e Francesco
as Pietro di Bernardone
(2005)
Incidenti
as presentatore
(2004)
(2003)
(2003)
Quattro passi nel Cinema
as Anfitrione
(2000)
Honey Horn
as Marino
(2000)
Il segreto del giaguaro
as Mazzaro
(1999)
The Bird People
as Antonio Lombardi
(1994)
Once a Year, Every Year
as Mario
(1989)
Cinema
as Francisco
(1988)
(1987)
According to Pontius Pilate
as Valeriano
(1982)
I'm Going to Live by Myself
as Giuseppe
(1981)
(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)
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Costante Nicosia
(1975)
Il fidanzamento
as Luigi Mannozzi
(1974)
The Household
as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
(1974)
Playing the Field
as Carmelo Lo Cascio
(1974)
The Handsome Devil
as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
(1973)
Io e lui
as Rico
(1973)
My Darling Slave
as Demetrio Cultura
(1973)
(1972)
The Eroticist
as Senatore Gianni Puppis
(1972)
(1972)
La calandria
as Lidio
(1972)
The Union
as Saverio Ravizzi
(1972)
The Migratory Bird
as Andrea Pomeraro
(1972)
Jus primae noctis
as Ariberto da Ficulle
(1971)
Homo Eroticus
as Michele Cannaritta
(1971)
Secret Fantasy
as Niccolo Vivaldi
(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)
When Women Had Tails
as Kao
(1970)
The Lovemakers
as Carlo Danieli
(1970)
On the Day of the Lord
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
(1970)
The Beast
as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
(1970)
The Married Priest
as Don Salvatore
(1970)
The Conjugal Debt
as Orazio
(1970)
Un caso di coscienza
as Salvatore Vaccagnino
(1970)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Ricky Ceciarelli
(1969)
House of Pleasure
as Conte Lombardini
(1969)
Monte Carlo or Bust!
as Marcello Agost
(1969)
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
as Vittorio Coppa
(1969)
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
as Nunzio di Licordia
(1969)
La donna a una dimensione
as Tv-host
(1968)
Criminal Affair
as Esteban de Flori
(1968)
(1968)
Sunstroke
as Giovanni Angelo Errani
(1967)
Don Juan in Sicily
as Giovanni Percolla
(1967)
Operation San Pietro
as Napoleone
(1967)
Anyone Can Play
as ricattatore
(1967)
A Rose for Everyone
as Lino
(1967)
Spia spione
as Carlo Barazzetti
(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)
The Sucker
as Lino, barber
(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)
Su e giù
as Cuccio
(1965)
Wrong Beds
as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
(1965)
The Double Bed
as Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
(1964)
Seduced and Abandoned
as Antonio Ascalone
(1964)
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
as Lo sposo
(1964)
The Magnificent Cuckold
as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
(1964)
Extraconiugale
as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
(1964)
Love in Four Dimensions
as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
(1964)
Corpse for the Lady
as Enzo, fratello di Laura
(1964)
Love and Marriage
as (segment "Prima notte, La")
(1964)
Senza sole nè luna
as Bruno
(1964)
La paura numero uno
as Il Brigadiere
(1963)
The Monsters
as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
(1963)
The Eye of the Needle
as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
(1963)
The Girl from Parma
as Michele Pantanò
(1963)
The Little Nuns
as Amilcare Franzetti
(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)