Lando Buzzanca
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 24, 1935
Day of Death: December 18, 2022 (87 years old)
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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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Actor Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
The Beast
Actor Orazio
The Conjugal Debt
Actor Kao
When Women Had Tails
Actor Carlo Danieli
The Lovemakers
Actor Primo fidanzato di Margherita
On the Day of the Lord
Actor Ricky Ceciarelli
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Actor Salvatore Vaccagnino
Un caso di coscienza
Actor Don Salvatore
The Married Priest
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Actor Antonio Ascalone
Seduced and Abandoned
Actor Bruno
Senza sole nè luna
Actor (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Love in Four Dimensions
Actor (segment "Prima notte, La")
Love and Marriage
Actor Lo sposo
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Actor Enzo, fratello di Laura
Corpse for the Lady
Actor Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
The Magnificent Cuckold
Actor Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
Extraconiugale
Actor Il Brigadiere
La paura numero uno
