Cast & creator
Lando Buzzanca
Best known for Ben-Hur, Io, Gigliola, The Sucker
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.
Also known as: Gerlando Buzzanca
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1959–2018 · acting roles
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Filmography (99)
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Ben-Hur
Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
1959
Io, Gigliola
1966
The Sucker
Lino, le barbier
1965
Secret Fantasy
Niccolo Vivaldi
1971
The Eroticist
Senatore Gianni Puppis
1972
Terra ribelle
General Malagridas
2010
Divorce Italian Style
Rosario Mulè
1961
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marcello Agost
1969
Libero
Ospite speciale
2000
The Monsters
Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
1963
When Women Had Tails
Kao
1970
The Magnificent Cuckold
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
1964
When Women Lost Their Tails
Ham
1972
After the Fox
Police Chief
1966
The Baroness of Carini
Don Ippolito
2007
Seduced and Abandoned
Antonio Ascalone
1964
Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
1971
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo
2010
House of Pleasure
Conte Lombardini
1969
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Lo sposo
1964
Operation San Pietro
Napoleone
1967
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Nunzio di Licordia
1969
For a Few Dollars Less
Bill
1966
A Rose for Everyone
Lino
1967
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapenese
1971
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Costante Nicosia
1975
Criminal Affair
Esteban de Flori
1968
Un caso di coscienza
Salvatore Vaccagnino
1970
The Double Bed
Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
1965
Made in Italy
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
1965
Chiara e Francesco
Pietro di Bernardone
2007
Swept Away by Family Affection
Memé Di Costanzo
1978
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Self
2004
Il gatto mammone
Lollo Mascalucia
1975
Our Husbands
Ragionier Manzi
1966
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Serg. Gringo
1966
My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultura
1973
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi
2012
The Lovemakers
Carlo Danieli
1970
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
1965
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
2009Una famiglia per caso
2003
Playing the Field
Carmelo Lo Cascio
1974
Su e giù
Cuccio
1965
Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013)
2013
Love in Four Dimensions
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
1964
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Ricky Ceciarelli
1970
On the Day of the Lord
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
1970
La calandria
Lidio
1972
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
2007
The Union
Saverio Ravizzi
1972
Il segreto del giaguaro
Mazzaro
2000
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Giuseppe
1982
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
1966
O Diabo na Cama
1988
Anyone Can Play
ricattatore
1967
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
1976
The Married Priest
Don Salvatore
1970
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Vittorio Coppa
1969
Lend Me Your Wife
Alex Fortini
1980
The Handsome Devil
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
1974
His Days Are Numbered
Cesare's Son
1962Case Chiuse
2011
Who Will Save The Roses?
Claudio
2017
Once a Year, Every Year
Mario
1994
Senza sole nè luna
Bruno
1964
Una noche embarazosa
Amalio Badalamenti
1977
La paura numero uno
Il Brigadiere
1964
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Federico Vivaldi
2005
Don Juan in Sicily
Giovanni Percolla
1967
The Eye of the Needle
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
1963
Wrong Beds
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
1965
The Beast
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
1970
The Bird People
Antonio Lombardi
1999
Extraconiugale
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
1964
La donna a una dimensione
Tv-host
1969
Corpse for the Lady
Enzo, fratello di Laura
1964
The Household
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
1974
The Little Nuns
Amilcare Franzetti
1963
Better a Widow
1968
According to Pontius Pilate
Valeriano
1988
Los crápulas
1981
The Migratory Bird
Andrea Pomeraro
1972
Love and Marriage
(segment "Prima notte, La")
1964
The Conjugal Debt
Orazio
1970
Jus primae noctis
Ariberto da Ficulle
1972
Il fidanzamento
Luigi Mannozzi
1975
Spia spione
Carlo Barazzetti
1967
Sunstroke
Giovanni Angelo Errani
1968
Honey Horn
Marino
2000
Io e lui
Rico
1973
The Girl from Parma
Michele Pantanò
1963
The Beasts
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
1971
Wife for Sale
Furio Cicerone
1973
Incidenti
presentatore
2005
La trincea
soldato italiano
1961
W gli sposi
Reverend
2018
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Anfitrione
2003Cinema
Francisco
1989