Lando Buzzanca
Acting
Born 1935-08-24
Died 2022-12-18
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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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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Acting
59 credits
Ben-Hur
The Sucker
Il restauratore
Divorce Italian Style
Il gatto mammone
The Eroticist
When Women Had Tails
The Monsters
Terra ribelle
Libero
Seduced and Abandoned
The Baroness of Carini
After the Fox
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Lend Me Your Wife
Secret Fantasy
The Magnificent Cuckold
Homo Eroticus
Made in Italy
No One Will Notice You're Naked
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
House of Pleasure
Operation San Pietro
La calandria
Deadly Game
Criminal Affair
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Su e giù
Swept Away by Family Affection
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
The Double Bed
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
When Women Lost Their Tails
I Vicerè
A Rose for Everyone
Chiara e Francesco
Playing the Field
Don Juan in Sicily
His Days Are Numbered
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Wrong Beds
The Little Nuns
Jus primae noctis
Una noche embarazosa
According to Pontius Pilate
Once a Year, Every Year
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Anyone Can Play
The Lovemakers
The Handsome Devil
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
The Union
My Darling Slave
Love and Marriage
The Married Priest
Spia spione
Our Husbands
For a Few Dollars Less
Sunstroke
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