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Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca

Known for ActingBorn 1935-08-24Died 2022-12-18Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.Read more

Movies & web series

Incidenti10.0
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Incidenti

2005 · Movie

Sunstroke10.0
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Sunstroke

1968 · Movie

Terra ribelle9.5
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Terra ribelle

2010 · Series

Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi9.0
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Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi

2005 · Series

Once a Year, Every Year9.0
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Once a Year, Every Year

1994 · Movie

Su e giù9.0
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Su e giù

1965 · Movie

Il restauratore8.0
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Il restauratore

2012 · Series

Una famiglia per caso
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Una famiglia per caso

2003 · Movie

Wife for Sale8.3
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Wife for Sale

1973 · Movie

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza8.0
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Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza

1969 · Movie

La paura numero uno8.0
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La paura numero uno

1964 · Movie

Divorce Italian Style7.9
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Divorce Italian Style

1961 · Movie

Ben-Hur7.9
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Ben-Hur

1959 · Movie

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!7.8
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Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

1970 · Movie

Seduced and Abandoned7.6
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Seduced and Abandoned

1964 · Movie

The Girl from Parma7.6
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The Girl from Parma

1963 · Movie

The Eye of the Needle7.5
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The Eye of the Needle

1963 · Movie

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad7.0
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Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

2009 · Movie

The Sucker7.4
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The Sucker

1965 · Movie

Honey Horn7.0
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Honey Horn

2000 · Movie

The Bird People7.0
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The Bird People

1999 · Movie

The Monsters7.4
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The Monsters

1963 · Movie

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana6.8
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Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

2010 · Movie

Los crápulas7.0
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Los crápulas

1981 · Movie

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio6.8
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

2004 · Movie

Who Will Save The Roses?6.6
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Who Will Save The Roses?

2017 · Movie

His Days Are Numbered7.1
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His Days Are Numbered

1962 · Movie

La donna a una dimensione7.0
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La donna a una dimensione

1969 · Movie

Better a Widow7.0
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Better a Widow

1968 · Movie

Extraconiugale7.0
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Extraconiugale

1964 · Movie

According to Pontius Pilate6.7
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According to Pontius Pilate

1988 · Movie

The Little Nuns6.8
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The Little Nuns

1963 · Movie

The Magnificent Cuckold6.6
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The Magnificent Cuckold

1964 · Movie

I Vicerè6.1
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I Vicerè

2007 · Movie

Love in Four Dimensions6.5
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Love in Four Dimensions

1964 · Movie

Operation San Pietro6.3
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Operation San Pietro

1967 · Movie

The Migratory Bird6.3
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The Migratory Bird

1972 · Movie

Spia spione6.3
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Spia spione

1967 · Movie

Un caso di coscienza6.2
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Un caso di coscienza

1970 · Movie

Cinema
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Cinema

1989 · Movie

The Household6.1
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The Household

1974 · Movie

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza6.1
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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

1975 · Movie

The Beast6.1
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The Beast

1970 · Movie

Secret Fantasy6.1
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Secret Fantasy

1971 · Movie

Made in Italy6.1
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Made in Italy

1965 · Movie

After the Fox6.1
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After the Fox

1966 · Movie

Io e lui6.0
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Io e lui

1973 · Movie

A Rose for Everyone6.0
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A Rose for Everyone

1967 · Movie