Lando Buzzanca
Age: 88 | From: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Person Details
Birthday: 1935-08-24 07:33:39
Aliases: Gerlando Buzzanca
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 17
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Ben-Hur
(1959) Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Libero
(2000) Ospite speciale
La Baronessa di Carini
(2007) Don Ippolito
Terra ribelle
(2010) Generale Malagridas
Deadly Game
(2013) Franco Binasco (2013)
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
(2005) Federico Vivaldi
I Vicerè
(2007) Prince Giacomo
For a Few Dollars Less
(1966) BillActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Reverend | |
| 2017 | Claudio | |
| 2013 | Franco Binasco (2013) | |
| 2012 | Basilio Corsi | |
| 2011 | N/A | |
| 2010 | Generale Malagridas | |
| Bernardo Tanlongo | ||
| 2007 | Prince Giacomo | |
| Don Ippolito | ||
| 2005 | presentatore | |
| Federico Vivaldi | ||
| 2004 | N/A | |
| 2003 | N/A | |
| 2000 | Marino | |
| Mazzaro | ||
| Ospite speciale | ||
| 1999 | Antonio Lombardi | |
| 1994 | Mario | |
| 1989 | Francisco | |
| 1988 | N/A | |
| 1987 | Valeriano | |
| 1982 | Giuseppe | |
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1980 | Alex Fortini | |
| 1978 | Memé Di Costanzo | |
| 1977 | N/A | |
| 1976 | Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro' | |
| 1975 | Lollo Mascalucia | |
| Costante Nicosia | ||
| Luigi Mannozzi | ||
| 1974 | Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni | |
| Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone | ||
| Carmelo Lo Cascio | ||
| 1973 | Demetrio Cultura | |
| Rico | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1972 | Lidio | |
| Ariberto da Ficulle | ||
| Andrea Pomeraro | ||
| Saverio Ravizzi | ||
| Senatore Gianni Puppis | ||
| Ham | ||
| 1971 | Niccolo Vivaldi | |
| Michele Cannaritta | ||
| Rosario Trapenese | ||
| Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli | ||
| 1970 | Carlo Danieli | |
| Don Salvatore | ||
| Kao | ||
| Ricky Ceciarelli | ||
| Orazio | ||
| Stagecoach Driver (uncredited) | ||
| Primo fidanzato di Margherita | ||
| Salvatore Vaccagnino | ||
| 1969 | Nunzio di Licordia | |
| Vittorio Coppa | ||
| Marcello Agost | ||
| Tv-host | ||
| Conte Lombardini | ||
| 1968 | Esteban de Flori | |
| Giovanni Angelo Errani | ||
| 1967 | Napoleone | |
| ricattatore | ||
| Carlo Barazzetti | ||
| Giovanni Percolla | ||
| Lino | ||
| 1966 | Police Chief | |
| Ragionier Manzi | ||
| Serg. Gringo | ||
| Bill | ||
| James Tont Agent 007 1/2 | ||
| 1965 | Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2") | |
| James Tont Agent 007 1/2 | ||
| Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre") | ||
| Cuccio | ||
| Birolli (Segment "Il complicato") | ||
| Lino, barber | ||
| 1964 | Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia") | |
| Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited) | ||
| (segment "Prima notte, La") | ||
| Enzo, fratello di Laura | ||
| Lo sposo | ||
| (segment "Amore e alfabeto") | ||
| Il Brigadiere | ||
| Antonio Ascalone | ||
| Bruno | ||
| 1963 | Luchino (segment "Come un padre") | |
| Carabiniere Sanfilippo | ||
| Amilcare Franzetti | ||
| Michele Pantanò | ||
| 1962 | Figlio di Cesare | |
| 1961 | Rosario Mulè | |
| 1959 | Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
