Lando Buzzanca
Acting • Born 1935-08-24 – Died 2022-12-18
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.
Filmography
97 credits
The Eroticist
Movie • 1972
Senatore Gianni Puppis
Once a Year, Every Year
Movie • 1994
Mario
Los crápulas
Movie • 1981
When Women Lost Their Tails
Movie • 1972
Ham
The Sucker
Movie • 1965
Lino, le barbier
The Beast
Movie • 1970
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Movie • 2004
Self
Seduced and Abandoned
Movie • 1964
Antonio Ascalone
The Conjugal Debt
Movie • 1970
Orazio
His Days are Numbered
Movie • 1962
Cesare's Son
The Monsters
Movie • 1963
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
I Vicerè
Movie • 2007
Prince Giacomo
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Movie • 1969
Marcello Agost
When Women Had Tails
Movie • 1970
Kao
Made in Italy
Movie • 1965
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
The Lovemakers
Movie • 1970
Carlo Danieli
Secret Fantasy
Movie • 1971
Niccolo Vivaldi
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Movie • 1969
Vittorio Coppa
My Darling Slave
Movie • 1973
Demetrio Cultura
Operation San Pietro
Movie • 1967
Napoleone
Senza sole nè luna
Movie • 1964
Bruno
For a Few Dollars Less
Movie • 1966
Bill
Our Husbands
Movie • 1966
Ragionier Manzi
Il gatto mammone
Movie • 1975
Lollo Mascalucia
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Movie • 1966
Serg. Gringo
Love in Four Dimensions
Movie • 1964
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
According to Pontius Pilate
Movie • 1988
Valeriano
Anyone Can Play
Movie • 1967
ricattatore
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Movie • 1971
Rosario Trapenese
The Handsome Devil
Movie • 1974
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
The Household
Movie • 1974
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
The Girl from Parma
Movie • 1963
Michele Pantanò
The Eye of the Needle
Movie • 1963
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Movie • 1969
Nunzio di Licordia
Una noche embarazosa
Movie • 1977
Amalio Badalamenti
Homo Eroticus
Movie • 1971
Michele Cannaritta
Il segreto del giaguaro
Movie • 2000
Mazzaro
La calandria
Movie • 1972
Lidio
Wife for Sale
Movie • 1973
Furio Cicerone
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Movie • 1976
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Playing the Field
Movie • 1974
Carmelo Lo Cascio
Lend Me Your Wife
Movie • 1980
Alex Fortini
Don Juan in Sicily
Movie • 1967
Giovanni Percolla
Honey Horn
Movie • 2000
Marino
On the Day of the Lord
Movie • 1970
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Incidenti
Movie • 2005
presentatore
The Bird People
Movie • 1999
Antonio Lombardi
The Union
Movie • 1972
Saverio Ravizzi
The Migratory Bird
Movie • 1972
Andrea Pomeraro
Sunstroke
Movie • 1968
Giovanni Angelo Errani
Spia spione
Movie • 1967
Carlo Barazzetti
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Movie • 1982
Giuseppe
The Beasts
Movie • 1971
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Movie • 1975
Costante Nicosia
House of Pleasure
Movie • 1969
Conte Lombardini
Ben-Hur
Movie • 1959
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Better a Widow
Movie • 1968
A Rose for Everyone
Movie • 1967
Lino
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Movie • 1970
Ricky Ceciarelli
Cinema
Movie • 1989
Francisco
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Movie • 2003
Anfitrione
Love and Marriage
Movie • 1964
(segment "Prima notte, La")
Un caso di coscienza
Movie • 1970
Salvatore Vaccagnino
Swept Away by Family Affection
Movie • 1978
Memé Di Costanzo
Case Chiuse
Movie • 2011
Il fidanzamento
Movie • 1975
Luigi Mannozzi
Who Will Save The Roses?
Movie • 2017
Claudio
After the Fox
Movie • 1966
Police Chief
Divorce Italian Style
Movie • 1961
Rosario Mulè
The Married Priest
Movie • 1970
Don Salvatore
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Movie • 2010
Bernardo Tanlongo
The Little Nuns
Movie • 1963
Amilcare Franzetti
Jus primae noctis
Movie • 1972
Ariberto da Ficulle
Criminal Affair
Movie • 1968
Esteban de Flori
Wrong Beds
Movie • 1965
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Movie • 1964
Lo sposo
Corpse for the Lady
Movie • 1964
Enzo, fratello di Laura
La donna a una dimensione
Movie • 1969
Tv-host
The Double Bed
Movie • 1965
Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie • 1964
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
Movie • 1965
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Movie • 1966
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Extraconiugale
Movie • 1964
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
W gli sposi
Movie • 2018
Reverend
O Diabo na Cama
Movie • 1988
Una famiglia per caso
Movie • 2003
Su e giù
Movie • 1965
Cuccio
Io e lui
Movie • 1973
Rico
La paura numero uno
Movie • 1964
Il Brigadiere
Chiara e Francesco
Movie • 2007
Pietro di Bernardone
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Movie • 2009
Self
Libero
TV • 2000
Ospite speciale
The Baroness of Carini
TV • 2007
Don Ippolito
Il restauratore
TV • 2012
Basilio Corsi
Deadly Game
TV • 2013
Franco Binasco (2013)
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
TV • 2005
Federico Vivaldi
Terra ribelle
TV • 2010
General Malagridas