Acting
Lando Buzzanca
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
W gli sposi
Film · 2018
Who Will Save The Roses?
Film · 2017
Deadly Game
Series · 2013
Il restauratore
Series · 2012
Case Chiuse
Film · 2011
Terra ribelle
Series · 2010
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Series · 2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Film · 2009
I Vicerè
Film · 2007
Chiara e Francesco
Film · 2007
The Baroness of Carini
Series · 2007
Incidenti
Film · 2005
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Series · 2005
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Film · 2004
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Film · 2003
Una famiglia per caso
Film · 2003
Il segreto del giaguaro
Film · 2000
Honey Horn
Film · 2000
Libero
Series · 2000
The Bird People
Film · 1999
Once a Year, Every Year
Film · 1994
Cinema
Film · 1989
According to Pontius Pilate
Film · 1988
O Diabo na Cama
Film · 1988
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Film · 1982
Los crápulas
Film · 1981
Lend Me Your Wife
Film · 1980
Swept Away by Family Affection
Film · 1978
Una noche embarazosa
Film · 1977
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Film · 1976
Il gatto mammone
Film · 1975
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Film · 1975
Il fidanzamento
Film · 1975
The Handsome Devil
Film · 1974
The Household
Film · 1974
Playing the Field
Film · 1974
My Darling Slave
Film · 1973
Wife for Sale
Film · 1973
Io e lui
Film · 1973
The Eroticist
Film · 1972
When Women Lost Their Tails
Film · 1972
La calandria
Film · 1972
The Union
Film · 1972
The Migratory Bird
Film · 1972
Jus primae noctis
Film · 1972
Secret Fantasy
Film · 1971
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Film · 1971
Homo Eroticus
Film · 1971
The Beasts
Film · 1971
The Beast
Film · 1970
The Conjugal Debt
Film · 1970
When Women Had Tails
Film · 1970
The Lovemakers
Film · 1970
On the Day of the Lord
Film · 1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Film · 1970
Un caso di coscienza
Film · 1970
The Married Priest
Film · 1970
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Film · 1969
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Film · 1969
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Film · 1969
House of Pleasure
Film · 1969
La donna a una dimensione
Film · 1969
Sunstroke
Film · 1968
Better a Widow
Film · 1968
Criminal Affair
Film · 1968
Operation San Pietro
Film · 1967
Anyone Can Play
Film · 1967
Don Juan in Sicily
Film · 1967
Spia spione
Film · 1967
A Rose for Everyone
Film · 1967
For a Few Dollars Less
Film · 1966
Our Husbands
Film · 1966
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Film · 1966
After the Fox
Film · 1966
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Film · 1966
Io, Gigliola
Series · 1966
The Sucker
Film · 1965
Made in Italy
Film · 1965
Wrong Beds
Film · 1965
The Double Bed
Film · 1965
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
Film · 1965
Su e giù
Film · 1965
Seduced and Abandoned
Film · 1964
Senza sole nè luna
Film · 1964
Love in Four Dimensions
Film · 1964
Love and Marriage
Film · 1964
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Film · 1964
Corpse for the Lady
Film · 1964
The Magnificent Cuckold
Film · 1964
Extraconiugale
Film · 1964
La paura numero uno
Film · 1964
The Monsters
Film · 1963
The Girl from Parma
Film · 1963
The Eye of the Needle
Film · 1963
The Little Nuns
Film · 1963
His Days Are Numbered
Film · 1962
Divorce Italian Style
Film · 1961
La trincea
Film · 1961
Ben-Hur
Film · 1959