Lando Buzzanca
Actor/Actriz
88
Movies
7
TV Shows
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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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As Actor/Actress
Ben-Hur
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Le Corniaud
Lino, le barbier
Divorzio all'italiana
Rosario Mulè
Libero
Ospite speciale
Meglio Vedova
Terra ribelle
General Malagridas
Extraconiugale
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marcello Agost
La Baronessa di Carini
Don Ippolito
Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne
Senatore Gianni Puppis
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
L'arbitro
Carmelo Lo Cascio
Il magnifico cornuto
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Operazione San Pietro
Napoleone
Sedotta e abbandonata
Antonio Ascalone
Quando le donne avevano la coda
Kao
Made in Italy
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
La persecución del zorro
Police Chief
Prestami tua moglie
Alex Fortini
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi
I mostri
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
Il domestico
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
Le monachine
Amilcare Franzetti
Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
Nel giorno del signore
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Un caso di coscienza
Salvatore Vaccagnino
Il gatto mammone
Lollo Mascalucia
La calandria
Lidio
Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte
Conte Lombardini
Cadavere per signora
Enzo, fratello di Laura