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Lando Buzzanca
Born · August 24, 1935
Died · December 18, 2022 (87 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Bio
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.
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Reverend
5.8
2018
Who Will Save The Roses?
Claudio
6.6
2017
Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013) · (2 episodes)
0.0
2013
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi · (28 episodes)
7.5
2012
Case Chiuse
2.5
2011
Terra ribelle
Generale Malagridas · (15 episodes)
9.5
2010
Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana
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6.8
2010
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
6.0
2007
La Baronessa di Carini
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3.5
2007
Chiara e Francesco
Pietro di Bernardone
5.1
2007
Incidenti
presentatore
0.0
2005
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Federico Vivaldi · (12 episodes)
9.0
2005
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
6.7
2004
Una famiglia per caso
0.0
2003
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Anfitrione
0.0
2003
Cornetti al miele
Marino
5.0
2000
Il segreto del giaguaro
Mazzaro
4.2
2000
Libero
Ospite speciale · (1 episode)
0.0
2000
The Bird People
Antonio Lombardi
0.0
1999
Once a Year, Every Year
Mario
0.0
1994
Cinema
Francisco
5.0
1989
O Diabo na Cama
0.0
1988
Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Valeriano
7.0
1987
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Giuseppe
5.8
1982
Los crápulas
0.0
1981
Lend Me Your Wife
Alex Fortini
3.1
1980
Swept Away by Family Affection
Memé Di Costanzo
1.0
1978
Una noche embarazosa
Amalio Badalamenti
4.9
1977
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
5.3
1976
Il gatto mammone
Lollo Mascalucia
4.5
1975
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Costante Nicosia
6.2
1975
Il fidanzamento
Luigi Mannozzi
3.5
1975
The Household
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
6.2
1974
The Handsome Devil
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
4.0
1974
Playing the Field
Carmelo Lo Cascio
5.3
1974
My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultura
4.8
1973
Io e lui
Rico
5.0
1973
Wife for Sale
6.5
1973
La calandria
Lidio
3.5
1972
Jus primae noctis
Ariberto da Ficulle
3.8
1972
The Migratory Bird
Andrea Pomeraro
6.0
1972
The Union
Saverio Ravizzi
4.1
1972
The Eroticist
Senatore Gianni Puppis
5.6
1972
When Women Lost Their Tails
Ham
3.2
1972
Secret Fantasy
Niccolo Vivaldi
6.4
1971
Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
4.8
1971
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapenese
4.9
1971
The Beasts
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3.5
1971
The Lovemakers
Carlo Danieli
4.9
1970
The Married Priest
Don Salvatore
3.0
1970
When Women Had Tails
Kao
4.5
1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Ricky Ceciarelli
5.5
1970
The Conjugal Debt
Orazio
5.6
1970
The Beast
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
5.5
1970
On the Day of the Lord
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
4.3
1970
Un caso di coscienza
Salvatore Vaccagnino
5.0
1970
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Nunzio di Licordia
8.5
1969
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Vittorio Coppa
3.8
1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marcello Agost
5.9
1969
La donna a una dimensione
Tv-host
0.0
1969
House of Pleasure
Conte Lombardini
3.5
1969
Criminal Affair
Esteban de Flori
2.0
1968
Better a Widow
0.0
1968
Sunstroke
Giovanni Angelo Errani
0.0
1968
Operation San Pietro
Napoleone
5.8
1967
Anyone Can Play
ricattatore
3.9
1967
Spia spione
Carlo Barazzetti
5.0
1967
Don Juan in Sicily
Giovanni Percolla
5.1
1967
A Rose for Everyone
Lino
4.5
1967
After the Fox
Police Chief
6.0
1966
Our Husbands
Ragionier Manzi
5.8
1966
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Serg. Gringo
3.5
1966
For a Few Dollars Less
Bill
4.0
1966
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
4.0
1966
Made in Italy
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
6.0
1965
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
5.0
1965
The Double Bed
Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
3.0
1965
Su e giù
Cuccio
0.0
1965
Letti sbagliati
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
4.4
1965
The Sucker
Lino, barber
7.4
1965
Extraconiugale
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
0.0
1964
The Magnificent Cuckold
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6.5
1964
Love and Marriage
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5.5
1964
Corpse for the Lady
Enzo, fratello di Laura
5.1
1964
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
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5.6
1964
Love in Four Dimensions
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
5.0
1964
La paura numero uno
Il Brigadiere
8.0
1964
Seduced and Abandoned
Antonio Ascalone
7.6
1964
Senza sole nè luna
Bruno
0.0
1964
The Monsters
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
7.4
1963
The Eye of the Needle
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
7.2
1963
The Little Nuns
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7.0
1963
The Girl from Parma
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7.4
1963
His Days Are Numbered
Cesare's Son
7.2
1962
Divorce Italian Style
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7.9
1961
Ben-Hur
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
7.9
1959