Cast

Lando Buzzanca

Acting

Cast

Lando Buzzanca

Known for

Acting

Born

1935-08-24

From

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died

2022-12-18

Also known as Gerlando Buzzanca

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.

Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca

Biography

Ben-Hur

The Sucker

The Eroticist

The Monsters

Operation San Pietro

Il gatto mammone

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

Case Chiuse

When Women Had Tails

Su e giù

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

Monte Carlo or Bust!

The Magnificent Cuckold

Made in Italy

Divorce Italian Style

Homo Eroticus

His Days Are Numbered

Swept Away by Family Affection

After the Fox

La calandria

Secret Fantasy

Don Juan in Sicily

On the Day of the Lord

A Rose for Everyone

Lend Me Your Wife

Anyone Can Play

Criminal Affair

The Beast

Wrong Beds

The Double Bed

I Vicerè

Chiara e Francesco

For a Few Dollars Less

Io e lui

The Beasts

Jus primae noctis

According to Pontius Pilate

Extraconiugale

Seduced and Abandoned

The Lovemakers

The Union

Un caso di coscienza

When Women Lost Their Tails

Il fidanzamento

House of Pleasure

The Migratory Bird

Una noche embarazosa

No One Will Notice You're Naked

The Household

I'm Going to Live by Myself

Playing the Field

My Darling Slave

The Eye of the Needle

Better a Widow

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

The Girl from Parma

The Conjugal Debt

Love and Marriage

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza

Wife for Sale

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

Sunstroke

Love in Four Dimensions

Spia spione

Our Husbands

Who Will Save The Roses?

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

The Little Nuns

The Handsome Devil

O Diabo na Cama

W gli sposi

Ringo and Gringo Against All

Senza sole nè luna

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

The Married Priest

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!