Lando Buzzanca
Acting
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.
Made in Italy
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
Age 30 (now 87)
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Costante Nicosia
Age 39 (now 87)
No One Will Notice You're Naked
as Rosario Trapenese
Age 35 (now 87)
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
as Bernardo Tanlongo
Age 74 (now 87)
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
as Self
Age 74 (now 87)
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as Self
Age 69 (now 87)
Swept Away by Family Affection
as Memé Di Costanzo
Age 43 (now 87)
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Age 40 (now 87)
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Costante Nicosia
Age 39 (now 87)
No One Will Notice You're Naked
as Rosario Trapenese
Age 35 (now 87)
The Beasts
as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
Age 35 (now 87)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Ricky Ceciarelli
Age 35 (now 87)
On the Day of the Lord
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Age 34 (now 87)
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
as Nunzio di Licordia
Age 34 (now 87)
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
as Vittorio Coppa
Age 34 (now 87)
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Age 30 (now 87) Made in Italy
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
Age 30 (now 87)
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Age 30 (now 87)
The Magnificent Cuckold
as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Age 29 (now 87)
Love in Four Dimensions
as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Age 28 (now 87)
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
as Bernardo Tanlongo
Age 74 (now 87)
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
as Federico Vivaldi
Age 69 (now 87)
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Also Known As
Gerlando Buzzanca
IMDB
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