Lando Buzzanca

Known for ActingBorn 1935-08-24Died 2022-12-18Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Incidenti

Sunstroke

Terra ribelle

Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi

Once a Year, Every Year

Su e giù

Il restauratore

Una famiglia per caso

Wife for Sale

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

La paura numero uno

Divorce Italian Style

Ben-Hur

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

Seduced and Abandoned

The Girl from Parma

The Eye of the Needle

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

The Sucker

Honey Horn

The Bird People

The Monsters

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

Los crápulas

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

Who Will Save The Roses?

His Days Are Numbered

La donna a una dimensione

Better a Widow

Extraconiugale

According to Pontius Pilate

The Little Nuns

The Magnificent Cuckold

I Vicerè

Love in Four Dimensions

Operation San Pietro

The Migratory Bird

Spia spione

Un caso di coscienza

Cinema

The Household

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

The Beast

Secret Fantasy

Made in Italy

After the Fox

Io e lui

A Rose for Everyone