Lando Buzzanca
Born August 24, 1935 (Age: 90)
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.
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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Filmography
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
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as Bernardo Tanlongo
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Age: 74
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
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as Self
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Age: 74
Incidenti
2005
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as presentatore
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Age: 69
Honey Horn
2000
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as Marino
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Age: 64
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000
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as Mazzaro
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Age: 64
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
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as Mario
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Age: 59
No Image
Cinema
1989
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as Francisco
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Age: 53
O Diabo na Cama
1988
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as
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Age: 52
According to Pontius Pilate
1988
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as Valeriano
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Age: 52
Los crápulas
1981
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as
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Age: 45
Lend Me Your Wife
1980
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as Alex Fortini
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Age: 45
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978
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as Memé Di Costanzo
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Age: 43
The Household
1974
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as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
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Age: 39
The Handsome Devil
1974
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as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
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Age: 38
Playing the Field
1974
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as Carmelo Lo Cascio
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Age: 38
My Darling Slave
1973
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as Demetrio Cultura
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Age: 38
Io e lui
1973
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as Rico
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Age: 38
Wife for Sale
1973
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as Furio Cicerone
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Age: 37
La calandria
1972
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as Lidio
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Age: 37
Jus primae noctis
1972
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as Ariberto da Ficulle
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Age: 37
The Migratory Bird
1972
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as Andrea Pomeraro
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Age: 37
The Union
1972
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as Saverio Ravizzi
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Age: 37
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969
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as Nunzio di Licordia
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Age: 34
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969
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as Vittorio Coppa
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Age: 34
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
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as Marcello Agost
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Age: 33
La donna a una dimensione
1969
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as Tv-host
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Age: 33
House of Pleasure
1969
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as Conte Lombardini
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Age: 33
Made in Italy
1965
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as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
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Age: 30
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965
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as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
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Age: 30
The Double Bed
1965
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as Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
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Age: 29
Su e giù
1965
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as Cuccio
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Age: 29
Wrong Beds
1965
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as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
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Age: 29
The Sucker
1965
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as Lino, le barbier
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Age: 29
Extraconiugale
1964
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as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
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Age: 29
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
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as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
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Age: 29
Love and Marriage
1964
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as (segment "Prima notte, La")
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Age: 29
Corpse for the Lady
1964
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as Enzo, fratello di Laura
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Age: 28
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964
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as Lo sposo
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Age: 28
Love in Four Dimensions
1964
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as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
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Age: 28
La paura numero uno
1964
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as Il Brigadiere
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Age: 28
Seduced and Abandoned
1964
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as Antonio Ascalone
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Age: 28
Senza sole nè luna
1964
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as Bruno
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Age: 28
The Monsters
1963
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as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
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Age: 28
The Eye of the Needle
1963
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as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
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Age: 28
The Little Nuns
1963
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as Amilcare Franzetti
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Age: 28
The Girl from Parma
1963
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as Michele Pantanò
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Age: 27
His Days are Numbered
1962
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as Cesare's Son
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Age: 26
Divorce Italian Style
1961
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as Rosario Mulè
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Age: 26
Ben-Hur
1959
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as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
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Age: 24