W gli sposi
2018 · Movie
as Reverend
Lando Buzzanca
1935-08-24
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Palermo, 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.
Filmography
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017 · Movie
as Claudio
Deadly Game
2013 · TV Show
as Franco Binasco (2013)
Il restauratore
2012 · TV Show
as Basilio Corsi
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Case Chiuse
2011 · Movie
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010 · Movie
as Bernardo Tanlongo
Terra ribelle
2010 · TV Show
as General Malagridas
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010 · TV Show
as Bernardo Tanlongo
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009 · Movie
as Self
I Vicerè
2007 · Movie
as Prince Giacomo
Chiara e Francesco
2007 · Movie
as Pietro di Bernardone
The Baroness of Carini
2007 · TV Show
as Don Ippolito
Incidenti
2005 · Movie
as presentatore
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005 · TV Show
as Federico Vivaldi
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004 · Movie
as Self
Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003 · Movie
as Anfitrione
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Una famiglia per caso
2003 · Movie
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000 · Movie
as Mazzaro
Honey Horn
2000 · Movie
as Marino
Libero
2000 · TV Show
as Ospite speciale
The Bird People
1999 · Movie
as Antonio Lombardi
Once a Year, Every Year
1994 · Movie
as Mario
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Cinema
1989 · Movie
as Francisco
According to Pontius Pilate
1988 · Movie
as Valeriano
O Diabo na Cama
1988 · Movie
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982 · Movie
as Giuseppe
Los crápulas
1981 · Movie
Lend Me Your Wife
1980 · Movie
as Alex Fortini
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978 · Movie
as Memé Di Costanzo
Una noche embarazosa
1977 · Movie
as Amalio Badalamenti
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976 · Movie
as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Il gatto mammone
1975 · Movie
as Lollo Mascalucia
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975 · Movie
as Costante Nicosia
Il fidanzamento
1975 · Movie
as Luigi Mannozzi
The Handsome Devil
1974 · Movie
as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
The Household
1974 · Movie
as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
Playing the Field
1974 · Movie
as Carmelo Lo Cascio
My Darling Slave
1973 · Movie
as Demetrio Cultura
Wife for Sale
1973 · Movie
as Furio Cicerone
Io e lui
1973 · Movie
as Rico
The Eroticist
1972 · Movie
as Senatore Gianni Puppis
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972 · Movie
as Ham
La calandria
1972 · Movie
as Lidio
The Union
1972 · Movie
as Saverio Ravizzi
The Migratory Bird
1972 · Movie
as Andrea Pomeraro
Jus primae noctis
1972 · Movie
as Ariberto da Ficulle
Secret Fantasy
1971 · Movie
as Niccolo Vivaldi
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971 · Movie
as Rosario Trapenese
Homo Eroticus
1971 · Movie
as Michele Cannaritta
The Beasts
1971 · Movie
as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
The Beast
1970 · Movie
as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
The Conjugal Debt
1970 · Movie
as Orazio
When Women Had Tails
1970 · Movie
as Kao
The Lovemakers
1970 · Movie
as Carlo Danieli
On the Day of the Lord
1970 · Movie
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970 · Movie
as Ricky Ceciarelli
Un caso di coscienza
1970 · Movie
as Salvatore Vaccagnino
The Married Priest
1970 · Movie
as Don Salvatore
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969 · Movie
as Marcello Agost
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969 · Movie
as Vittorio Coppa
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969 · Movie
as Nunzio di Licordia
House of Pleasure
1969 · Movie
as Conte Lombardini
La donna a una dimensione
1969 · Movie
as Tv-host
Sunstroke
1968 · Movie
as Giovanni Angelo Errani
Better a Widow
1968 · Movie
Criminal Affair
1968 · Movie
as Esteban de Flori
Operation San Pietro
1967 · Movie
as Napoleone
Anyone Can Play
1967 · Movie
as ricattatore
Don Juan in Sicily
1967 · Movie
as Giovanni Percolla
Spia spione
1967 · Movie
as Carlo Barazzetti
A Rose for Everyone
1967 · Movie
as Lino
For a Few Dollars Less
1966 · Movie
as Bill
Our Husbands
1966 · Movie
as Ragionier Manzi
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966 · Movie
as Serg. Gringo
After the Fox
1966 · Movie
as Police Chief
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966 · Movie
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
The Sucker
1965 · Movie
as Lino, le barbier
Made in Italy
1965 · Movie
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
Wrong Beds
1965 · Movie
as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
The Double Bed
1965 · Movie
as Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965 · Movie
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Su e giù
1965 · Movie
as Cuccio
Seduced and Abandoned
1964 · Movie
as Antonio Ascalone
Senza sole nè luna
1964 · Movie
as Bruno
Love in Four Dimensions
1964 · Movie
as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Love and Marriage
1964 · Movie
as (segment "Prima notte, La")
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964 · Movie
as Lo sposo
Corpse for the Lady
1964 · Movie
as Enzo, fratello di Laura
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964 · Movie
as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Extraconiugale
1964 · Movie
as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
La paura numero uno
1964 · Movie
as Il Brigadiere
The Monsters
1963 · Movie
as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
The Girl from Parma
1963 · Movie
as Michele Pantanò
The Eye of the Needle
1963 · Movie
as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
The Little Nuns
1963 · Movie
as Amilcare Franzetti
His Days Are Numbered
1962 · Movie
as Cesare's Son
Divorce Italian Style
1961 · Movie
as Rosario Mulè
La trincea
1961 · Movie
as soldato italiano
Ben-Hur
1959 · Movie
as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
