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