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