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Lando Buzzanca‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1935-08-24

Popularity

star3.1

Lando Buzzanca

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Lando Buzzanca

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1935-08-24

Popularity

star3.1

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.

Movie Credits

The Eroticist

The Eroticist‌
star5.6
calendar 1972

Once a Year, Every Year

Once a Year, Every Year‌
star0.0
calendar 1994

Los crápulas

Los crápulas‌
star0.0
calendar 1981

When Women Lost Their Tails

When Women Lost Their Tails‌
star3.2
calendar 1972

The Sucker

The Sucker‌
star7.4
calendar 1965

The Beast

The Beast‌
star5.8
calendar 1970

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

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio‌
star6.7
calendar 2004

Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned‌
star7.6
calendar 1964

The Conjugal Debt

The Conjugal Debt‌
star5.6
calendar 1970

His Days Are Numbered

His Days Are Numbered‌
star7.2
calendar 1962

The Monsters

The Monsters‌
star7.3
calendar 1963

I Vicerè

I Vicerè‌
star6.0
calendar 2007

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Monte Carlo or Bust!‌
star5.9
calendar 1969

When Women Had Tails

When Women Had Tails‌
star4.5
calendar 1970

Made in Italy

Made in Italy‌
star6.0
calendar 1965

The Lovemakers

The Lovemakers‌
star4.9
calendar 1970

Secret Fantasy

Secret Fantasy‌
star6.3
calendar 1971

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist‌
star3.8
calendar 1969

My Darling Slave

My Darling Slave‌
star4.8
calendar 1973

Operation San Pietro

Operation San Pietro‌
star5.8
calendar 1967

Senza sole nè luna

Senza sole nè luna‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

For a Few Dollars Less

For a Few Dollars Less‌
star4.0
calendar 1966

Our Husbands

Our Husbands‌
star5.7
calendar 1966

Il gatto mammone

Il gatto mammone‌
star4.5
calendar 1975

Ringo and Gringo Against All

Ringo and Gringo Against All‌
star3.5
calendar 1966

Love in Four Dimensions

Love in Four Dimensions‌
star5.0
calendar 1964

Secondo Ponzio Pilato

Secondo Ponzio Pilato‌
star7.0
calendar 1988

Anyone Can Play

Anyone Can Play‌
star3.9
calendar 1967

No One Will Notice You're Naked

No One Will Notice You're Naked‌
star4.7
calendar 1971

The Handsome Devil

The Handsome Devil‌
star4.0
calendar 1974

The Household

The Household‌
star6.2
calendar 1974

The Girl from Parma

The Girl from Parma‌
star7.4
calendar 1963

The Eye of the Needle

The Eye of the Needle‌
star7.2
calendar 1963

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

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza‌
star8.5
calendar 1969

Una noche embarazosa

Una noche embarazosa‌
star4.9
calendar 1977

Homo Eroticus

Homo Eroticus‌
star4.8
calendar 1971

Il segreto del giaguaro

Il segreto del giaguaro‌
star4.2
calendar 2000

La calandria

La calandria‌
star3.5
calendar 1972

Wife for Sale

Wife for Sale‌
star6.5
calendar 1973

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women‌
star5.3
calendar 1976

Playing the Field

Playing the Field‌
star5.3
calendar 1974

Lend Me Your Wife

Lend Me Your Wife‌
star3.1
calendar 1980

Don Juan in Sicily

Don Juan in Sicily‌
star5.1
calendar 1967

Cornetti al miele

Cornetti al miele‌
star5.0
calendar 2000

On the Day of the Lord

On the Day of the Lord‌
star4.3
calendar 1970

Incidenti

Incidenti‌
star0.0
calendar 2005

The Bird People

The Bird People‌
star0.0
calendar 1999

The Union

The Union‌
star4.1
calendar 1972

The Migratory Bird

The Migratory Bird‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

Sunstroke

Sunstroke‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

Spia spione

Spia spione‌
star5.0
calendar 1967

I'm Going to Live by Myself

I'm Going to Live by Myself‌
star5.8
calendar 1982

The Beasts

The Beasts‌
star2.0
calendar 1971

The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza

The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza‌
star6.2
calendar 1975

House of Pleasure

House of Pleasure‌
star3.5
calendar 1969

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur‌
star7.9
calendar 1959

Better a Widow

Better a Widow‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

A Rose for Everyone

A Rose for Everyone‌
star4.5
calendar 1967

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

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!‌
star5.5
calendar 1970

Cinema

Cinema‌
star5.0
calendar 1989

Quattro passi nel Cinema

Quattro passi nel Cinema‌
star0.0
calendar 2003

Love and Marriage

Love and Marriage‌
star5.5
calendar 1964

Un caso di coscienza

Un caso di coscienza‌
star5.0
calendar 1970

Swept Away by Family Affection

Swept Away by Family Affection‌
star1.0
calendar 1978

Case Chiuse

Case Chiuse‌
star2.5
calendar 2011

Il fidanzamento

Il fidanzamento‌
star3.5
calendar 1975

Who Will Save The Roses?

Who Will Save The Roses?‌
star6.6
calendar 2017

After the Fox

After the Fox‌
star6.0
calendar 1966

Divorce Italian Style

Divorce Italian Style‌
star7.9
calendar 1961

The Married Priest

The Married Priest‌
star3.0
calendar 1970

Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana

Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana‌
star6.8
calendar 2010

The Little Nuns

The Little Nuns‌
star7.0
calendar 1963

Jus primae noctis

Jus primae noctis‌
star3.8
calendar 1972

Criminal Affair

Criminal Affair‌
star2.0
calendar 1968

Letti sbagliati

Letti sbagliati‌
star4.4
calendar 1965

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars‌
star5.6
calendar 1964

Corpse for the Lady

Corpse for the Lady‌
star5.1
calendar 1964

La donna a una dimensione

La donna a una dimensione‌
star0.0
calendar 1969

The Double Bed

The Double Bed‌
star3.0
calendar 1965

The Magnificent Cuckold

The Magnificent Cuckold‌
star6.6
calendar 1964

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

James Tont Operation U.N.O.‌
star5.0
calendar 1965

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

James Tont Operation T.W.O.‌
star4.0
calendar 1966

Extraconiugale

Extraconiugale‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

W gli sposi

W gli sposi‌
star5.8
calendar 2018

O Diabo na Cama

O Diabo na Cama‌
star0.0
calendar 1988

Una famiglia per caso

Una famiglia per caso‌
star0.0
calendar 2003

Su e giù

Su e giù‌
star0.0
calendar 1965

Io e lui

Io e lui‌
star5.0
calendar 1973

La paura numero uno

La paura numero uno‌
star9.0
calendar 1964

Chiara e Francesco

Chiara e Francesco‌
star5.1
calendar 2007

Tv Credits

Libero

Libero‌
star0.0
calendar 2000

La Baronessa di Carini

La Baronessa di Carini‌
star3.5
calendar 2007

Terra ribelle

Terra ribelle‌
star9.5
calendar 2010

Il restauratore

Il restauratore‌
star7.5
calendar 2012

Deadly Game

Deadly Game‌
star0.0
calendar 2013

Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi

Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi‌
star9.0
calendar 2005