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