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Lando Buzzanca

Acting

1.0 Popularity Aug 24, 1935 (87 years old) Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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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...

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.

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Filmography 97

2018
W gli sposi Movie

as Reverend

2017
2013
Deadly Game TV

as Franco Binasco (2013)

2012
Il restauratore TV

as Basilio Corsi

2011
2010
Terra ribelle TV

as Generale Malagridas

2010
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana Movie

as Bernardo Tanlongo

2007
I Vicerè Movie

as Prince Giacomo

2007
La Baronessa di Carini TV

as Don Ippolito

2007
Chiara e Francesco Movie

as Pietro di Bernardone

2005
Incidenti Movie

as presentatore

2003
Quattro passi nel Cinema Movie

as Anfitrione

2000
Honey Horn Movie

as Marino

2000
Il segreto del giaguaro Movie

as Mazzaro

2000
Libero TV

as Ospite speciale

1999
The Bird People Movie

as Antonio Lombardi

Photos 1

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Personal Details

Known For Acting
Gender Not specified
Birthday August 24, 1935 (87 years old)
Died December 18, 2022
Place of Birth Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Also Known As Gerlando Buzzanca
Years Active 1959 - 2018
Popularity 1.0
Career Stats
97 Total Credits
91 Movie Roles
6 TV Roles
1 Photos