Lando Buzzanca

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: August 24, 1935 – December 18, 2022
From: Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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.

Works

92 films

Ben-Hur

19597.9

The Sucker

19657.4

Il gatto mammone

19754.6

The Eroticist

19725.6

When Women Had Tails

19704.3

Divorce Italian Style

19617.9

Monte Carlo or Bust!

19695.9

The Monsters

19637.4

After the Fox

19666.1

Seduced and Abandoned

19647.7

La calandria

19723.9

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

19645.9

Secret Fantasy

19716.1

Swept Away by Family Affection

19783.5

House of Pleasure

19694.6

The Double Bed

19653.4

The Magnificent Cuckold

19646.6

Criminal Affair

19685.3

Case Chiuse

20112.5

Su e giù

19659.0

Made in Italy

19656.1

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

20097.0

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

19756.1

Playing the Field

19745.5

I Vicerè

20076.1

When Women Lost Their Tails

19723.8

Homo Eroticus

19715.2

No One Will Notice You're Naked

19714.9

Operation San Pietro

19676.3

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

19694.4

His Days Are Numbered

19627.1

The Conjugal Debt

19705.6

Lend Me Your Wife

19803.6

A Rose for Everyone

19676.0

The Married Priest

19704.0

Anyone Can Play

19674.6

Our Husbands

19666.0

The Lovemakers

19705.2

Chiara e Francesco

20075.3

The Beast

19706.1

According to Pontius Pilate

19886.7

Don Juan in Sicily

19675.2

The Eye of the Needle

19637.5

Who Will Save The Roses?

20176.6

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

20046.8

The Little Nuns

19636.8

Un caso di coscienza

19706.2

My Darling Slave

19734.9

Una noche embarazosa

19774.7

O Diabo na Cama

19886.8

Jus primae noctis

19723.9

On the Day of the Lord

19704.4

For a Few Dollars Less

19664.3

The Girl from Parma

19637.6

Corpse for the Lady

19645.4

Ringo and Gringo Against All

19665.7

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

19655.7

Wrong Beds

19654.5

Love and Marriage

19645.3

Senza sole nè luna

1964

Sunstroke

196810.0

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

20106.8

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza

19698.0

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

19664.8

The Household

19746.1

I'm Going to Live by Myself

19825.7

Io e lui

19736.0

The Handsome Devil

19744.3

Once a Year, Every Year

19949.0

The Migratory Bird

19726.3

The Union

19724.9

Better a Widow

19687.0

Wife for Sale

19738.3

Extraconiugale

19647.0

Il fidanzamento

19755.0

W gli sposi

20185.2

The Beasts

19714.8

Los crápulas

19817.0

La trincea

1961

Love in Four Dimensions

19646.5

Il segreto del giaguaro

20004.8

Una famiglia per caso

20038.0

Spia spione

19676.3

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

19707.8

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

19765.9

Honey Horn

20007.0

Incidenti

200510.0

La donna a una dimensione

19697.0

La paura numero uno

19648.0

The Bird People

19997.0

Cinema

19896.0

Quattro passi nel Cinema

2003