
Lando Buzzanca
Born: 1935-08-24
Place of Birth: 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.
Known For

Ben-Hur

The Sucker

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

The Beasts

Il fidanzamento

The Household

Wife for Sale

Playing the Field

The Union

The Beast

The Monsters

The Girl from Parma

La calandria

Homo Eroticus

Better a Widow

I Vicerè

Una noche embarazosa

Incidenti

Wrong Beds

Secret Fantasy

Chiara e Francesco

Monte Carlo or Bust!

His Days are Numbered

When Women Had Tails

Seduced and Abandoned

The Eye of the Needle

W gli sposi

Divorce Italian Style

The Eroticist

Swept Away by Family Affection

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

The Magnificent Cuckold

On the Day of the Lord

Il gatto mammone

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

Made in Italy

Anyone Can Play

O Diabo na Cama

After the Fox

The Conjugal Debt

House of Pleasure

When Women Lost Their Tails

The Married Priest

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

Jus primae noctis

Operation San Pietro

The Handsome Devil

Il segreto del giaguaro

Who Will Save The Roses?

According to Pontius Pilate

Criminal Affair

The Double Bed

Lend Me Your Wife

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

Love and Marriage

The Migratory Bird

My Darling Slave

Don Juan in Sicily

The Lovemakers

Spia spione

Su e giù

For a Few Dollars Less

Un caso di coscienza

Ringo and Gringo Against All

Senza sole nè luna

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

Our Husbands

Honey Horn

No One Will Notice You're Naked

A Rose for Everyone

Io e lui

Extraconiugale

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

Once a Year, Every Year

The Little Nuns

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

Love in Four Dimensions

Los crápulas

Corpse for the Lady

Quattro passi nel Cinema

La donna a una dimensione

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

The Bird People

La paura numero uno

I'm Going to Live by Myself
