
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.
98 acting credits
Acting · 98

Ben-Hur
1959

The Sucker
1965

Divorce Italian Style
1961

Libero
2000

When Women Had Tails
1970
Case Chiuse
2011

The Eroticist
1972

The Baroness of Carini
2007

Terra ribelle
2010

Secret Fantasy
1971

Made in Italy
1965

Seduced and Abandoned
1964

After the Fox
1966

When Women Lost Their Tails
1972

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975

Don Juan in Sicily
1967

Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969

Il gatto mammone
1975

Il restauratore
2012

Jus primae noctis
1972

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009

The Lovemakers
1970

The Magnificent Cuckold
1964

I Vicerè
2007

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964

Wrong Beds
1965

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976

On the Day of the Lord
1970

Lend Me Your Wife
1980

Operation San Pietro
1967

Homo Eroticus
1971

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

No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971

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

The Household
1974

Criminal Affair
1968

The Monsters
1963

James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965

House of Pleasure
1969

Deadly Game
2013

The Union
1972

The Married Priest
1970

Anyone Can Play
1967

La calandria
1972

The Beast
1970

For a Few Dollars Less
1966

Corpse for the Lady
1964

Chiara e Francesco
2007

James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969

Un caso di coscienza
1970

A Rose for Everyone
1967

According to Pontius Pilate
1988

The Migratory Bird
1972

La donna a una dimensione
1969

Love in Four Dimensions
1964

His Days Are Numbered
1962

Our Husbands
1966

Extraconiugale
1964

Swept Away by Family Affection
1978

Better a Widow
1968

The Girl from Parma
1963

Una noche embarazosa
1977

The Beasts
1971

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970

Once a Year, Every Year
1994

Playing the Field
1974

My Darling Slave
1973

Spia spione
1967

Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005

The Double Bed
1965

Who Will Save The Roses?
2017

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010

The Little Nuns
1963

The Conjugal Debt
1970

Wife for Sale
1973

The Handsome Devil
1974

Incidenti
2005

I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982

O Diabo na Cama
1988

Sunstroke
1968

Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966

Io e lui
1973

Il fidanzamento
1975

Il segreto del giaguaro
2000

La paura numero uno
1964

The Bird People
1999

Love and Marriage
1964

Su e giù
1965

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
Una famiglia per caso
2003

The Eye of the Needle
1963

W gli sposi
2018

Honey Horn
2000

Los crápulas
1981
Cinema
1989

Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003

Senza sole nè luna
1964