Lando Buzzanca

Acting

Born Aug 24, 1935

From Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died Dec 18, 2022

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.

Lando Buzzanca

Known For

Ben-Hur

The Sucker

Divorce Italian Style

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Better a Widow

Secret Fantasy

The Eroticist

The Magnificent Cuckold

Seduced and Abandoned

Filmography — Acting

Ben-Hur

The Sucker

Divorce Italian Style

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Case Chiuse

Better a Widow

Secret Fantasy

The Eroticist

The Magnificent Cuckold

Seduced and Abandoned

When Women Had Tails

I Vicerè

After the Fox

Made in Italy

The Monsters

House of Pleasure

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

Homo Eroticus

Don Juan in Sicily

Anyone Can Play

Chiara e Francesco

Criminal Affair

La calandria

On the Day of the Lord

When Women Lost Their Tails

Once a Year, Every Year

Spia spione

Who Will Save The Roses?

According to Pontius Pilate

Lend Me Your Wife

Il gatto mammone

Love and Marriage

Su e giù

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

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

The Lovemakers

No One Will Notice You're Naked

Operation San Pietro

Io e lui

Jus primae noctis

Una noche embarazosa

Playing the Field

The Beasts

The Migratory Bird

The Union

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

A Rose for Everyone

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

The Handsome Devil

Sunstroke

Swept Away by Family Affection

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

The Double Bed

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

The Beast

Wrong Beds

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

The Girl from Parma

Extraconiugale

Our Husbands

His Days Are Numbered

Wife for Sale

Un caso di coscienza

O Diabo na Cama

The Little Nuns

My Darling Slave

The Eye of the Needle

The Household