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person_profile-Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Aug 24, 1935

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Dec 18, 2022

Biography of

Lando Buzzanca

    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.

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Filmography of

Lando Buzzanca

Found 71 Movies in total

Who Will Save The Roses?

Claudio ( Actor )

... 2017

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

Bernardo Tanlongo ( Actor )

... 2010

I Vicerè

Prince Giacomo ( Actor )

... 2007

Il segreto del giaguaro

Mazzaro ( Actor )

... 2000

The Bird People

Antonio Lombardi ( Actor )

... 1999

... 1994

... 1988

Secondo Ponzio Pilato

Valeriano ( Actor )

... 1987

... 1982

... 1981

Swept Away by Family Affection

Memé Di Costanzo ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1977

Il gatto mammone

Lollo Mascalucia ( Actor )

... 1975

The Household

Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni ( Actor )

... 1974

The Handsome Devil

Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone ( Actor )

... 1974

Playing the Field

Carmelo Lo Cascio ( Actor )

... 1974

Io e lui

Rico ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1973

La calandria

Lidio ( Actor )

... 1972

Jus primae noctis

Ariberto da Ficulle ( Actor )

... 1972

The Migratory Bird

Andrea Pomeraro ( Actor )

... 1972

The Union

Saverio Ravizzi ( Actor )

... 1972

The Eroticist

Senatore Gianni Puppis ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

Secret Fantasy

Niccolo Vivaldi ( Actor )

... 1971

Homo Eroticus

Michele Cannaritta ( Actor )

... 1971

No One Will Notice You're Naked

Rosario Trapenese ( Actor )

... 1971

The Lovemakers

Carlo Danieli ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1970

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

Ricky Ceciarelli ( Actor )

... 1970

The Conjugal Debt

Orazio ( Actor )

... 1970

The Beast

Stagecoach Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1970

On the Day of the Lord

Primo fidanzato di Margherita ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1969

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

Vittorio Coppa ( Actor )

... 1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Marcello Agost ( Actor )

... 1969

La donna a una dimensione

Tv-host ( Actor )

... 1969

House of Pleasure

Conte Lombardini ( Actor )

... 1969

Criminal Affair

Esteban de Flori ( Actor )

... 1968

... 1968

... 1968

Operation San Pietro

Napoleone ( Actor )

... 1967

Anyone Can Play

ricattatore ( Actor )

... 1967

Spia spione

Carlo Barazzetti ( Actor )

... 1967

Don Juan in Sicily

Giovanni Percolla ( Actor )

... 1967

After the Fox

Police Chief ( Actor )

... 1966

Our Husbands

Ragionier Manzi ( Actor )

... 1966

Ringo and Gringo Against All

Serg. Gringo ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

Made in Italy

Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2") ( Actor )

... 1965

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

James Tont Agent 007 1/2 ( Actor )

... 1965

Su e giù

Cuccio ( Actor )

... 1965

Wrong Beds

Birolli (Segment "Il complicato") ( Actor )

... 1965

The Sucker

Lino, barber ( Actor )

... 1965

Extraconiugale

Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia") ( Actor )

... 1964

The Magnificent Cuckold

Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1964

Love and Marriage

(segment "Prima notte, La") ( Actor )

... 1964

Corpse for the Lady

Enzo, fratello di Laura ( Actor )

... 1964

... 1964

Love in Four Dimensions

(segment "Amore e alfabeto") ( Actor )

... 1964

Seduced and Abandoned

Antonio Ascalone ( Actor )

... 1964

The Monsters

Luchino (segment "Come un padre") ( Actor )

... 1963

The Eye of the Needle

Carabiniere Sanfilippo ( Actor )

... 1963

The Little Nuns

Amilcare Franzetti ( Actor )

... 1963

The Girl from Parma

Michele Pantanò ( Actor )

... 1963

His Days Are Numbered

Figlio di Cesare ( Actor )

... 1962

Divorce Italian Style

Rosario Mulè ( Actor )

... 1961

Ben-Hur

Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1959