
Lando Buzzanca
Born
August 24, 1935
Died
December 18, 2022 (87 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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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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Reverend
2018

Who Will Save The Roses?
Claudio
2017

Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013) · (2 episodes)
2013

Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi · (28 episodes)
2012
Case Chiuse
2011

Terra ribelle
Generale Malagridas · (15 episodes)
2010

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
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2010

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
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2009

I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
2007

La Baronessa di Carini
Don Ippolito · (2 episodes)
2007

Chiara e Francesco
Pietro di Bernardone
2007

Incidenti
presentatore
2005

Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Federico Vivaldi · (12 episodes)
2005

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
Una famiglia per caso
2003

Quattro passi nel Cinema
Anfitrione
2003

Honey Horn
Marino
2000

Il segreto del giaguaro
Mazzaro
2000

Libero
Ospite speciale · (1 episode)
2000

The Bird People
Antonio Lombardi
1999

Once a Year, Every Year
Mario
1994
Cinema
Francisco
1989

O Diabo na Cama
1988

Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Valeriano
1987

I'm Going to Live by Myself
Giuseppe
1982

Los crápulas
1981

Lend Me Your Wife
Alex Fortini
1980

Swept Away by Family Affection
Memé Di Costanzo
1978

Una noche embarazosa
Amalio Badalamenti
1977

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
1976

Il gatto mammone
Lollo Mascalucia
1975

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Costante Nicosia
1975

Il fidanzamento
Luigi Mannozzi
1975

The Household
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
1974

The Handsome Devil
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
1974

Playing the Field
Carmelo Lo Cascio
1974

My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultura
1973

Io e lui
Rico
1973

Wife for Sale
1973

La calandria
Lidio
1972

Jus primae noctis
Ariberto da Ficulle
1972

The Migratory Bird
Andrea Pomeraro
1972

The Union
Saverio Ravizzi
1972

The Eroticist
Senatore Gianni Puppis
1972

When Women Lost Their Tails
Ham
1972

Secret Fantasy
Niccolo Vivaldi
1971

Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
1971

No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapenese
1971

The Beasts
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
1971

The Lovemakers
Carlo Danieli
1970

The Married Priest
Don Salvatore
1970

When Women Had Tails
Kao
1970

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Ricky Ceciarelli
1970

The Conjugal Debt
Orazio
1970

The Beast
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
1970

On the Day of the Lord
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
1970

Un caso di coscienza
Salvatore Vaccagnino
1970

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Nunzio di Licordia
1969

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Vittorio Coppa
1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marcello Agost
1969

La donna a una dimensione
Tv-host
1969

House of Pleasure
Conte Lombardini
1969

Criminal Affair
Esteban de Flori
1968

Better a Widow
1968

Sunstroke
Giovanni Angelo Errani
1968

Operation San Pietro
Napoleone
1967

Anyone Can Play
ricattatore
1967

Spia spione
Carlo Barazzetti
1967

Don Juan in Sicily
Giovanni Percolla
1967

A Rose for Everyone
Lino
1967

After the Fox
Police Chief
1966

Our Husbands
Ragionier Manzi
1966

Ringo and Gringo Against All
Serg. Gringo
1966

For a Few Dollars Less
Bill
1966

James Tont Operation T.W.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
1966

Made in Italy
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
1965

James Tont Operation U.N.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
1965

The Double Bed
Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
1965

Su e giù
Cuccio
1965

Wrong Beds
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
1965

The Sucker
Lino, barber
1965

Extraconiugale
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
1964

The Magnificent Cuckold
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
1964

Love and Marriage
(segment "Prima notte, La")
1964

Corpse for the Lady
Enzo, fratello di Laura
1964

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Lo sposo
1964

Love in Four Dimensions
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
1964

La paura numero uno
Il Brigadiere
1964

Seduced and Abandoned
Antonio Ascalone
1964

Senza sole nè luna
Bruno
1964

The Monsters
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
1963

The Eye of the Needle
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
1963

The Little Nuns
Amilcare Franzetti
1963

The Girl from Parma
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1963

His Days Are Numbered
Cesare's Son
1962

Divorce Italian Style
Rosario Mulè
1961

Ben-Hur
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
1959