8.5
8.5
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969
as Nunzio di Licordia
Lando Buzzanca
Acting
Born:August 24, 1935
Died:December 18, 2022(aged 87)
Birthplace:Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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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.
Filmography (89 movies)
8.0
8.0
La paura numero uno
1964
as Il Brigadiere
7.9
7.9
Ben-Hur
1959
as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
7.9
7.9
Divorce Italian Style
1961
as Rosario Mulè
7.6
7.6
Seduced and Abandoned
1964
as Antonio Ascalone
7.4
7.4
The Girl from Parma
1963
as Michele Pantanò
7.4
7.4
The Sucker
1965
as Lino, barber
7.3
7.3
The Monsters
1963
as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
7.2
7.2
The Eye of the Needle
1963
as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
7.1
7.1
His Days are Numbered
1962
as Cesare's Son
7.0
7.0
The Little Nuns
1963
as Amilcare Franzetti
7.0
7.0
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
as Self
6.8
6.8
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
as Bernardo Tanlongo
6.7
6.7
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as Self
6.6
6.6
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017
as Claudio
6.5
6.5
Wife for Sale
1973
6.3
6.3
According to Pontius Pilate
1988
as Valeriano
6.1
6.1
Secret Fantasy
1971
as Niccolo Vivaldi
6.0
6.0
Made in Italy
1965
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
6.0
6.0
I Vicerè
2007
as Prince Giacomo
6.0
6.0
After the Fox
1966
as Police Chief
6.0
6.0
The Migratory Bird
1972
as Andrea Pomeraro
5.9
5.9
Operation San Pietro
1967
as Napoleone
5.8
5.8
Un caso di coscienza
1970
as Salvatore Vaccagnino
5.8
5.8
Our Husbands
1966
as Ragionier Manzi
5.8
5.8
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
as Marcello Agost
5.7
5.7
The Household
1974
as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
5.7
5.7
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
as Costante Nicosia
5.7
5.7
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982
as Giuseppe
5.6
5.6
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964
as Lo sposo
5.5
5.5
The Eroticist
1972
as Senatore Gianni Puppis
5.5
5.5
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
as Ricky Ceciarelli
5.2
5.2
Playing the Field
1974
as Carmelo Lo Cascio
5.2
5.2
W gli sposi
2018
as Reverend
5.2
5.2
Chiara e Francesco
2007
as Pietro di Bernardone
5.1
5.1
Corpse for the Lady
1964
as Enzo, fratello di Laura
5.0
5.0
Don Juan in Sicily
1967
as Giovanni Percolla
5.0
5.0
Love in Four Dimensions
1964
as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
5.0
5.0
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
5.0
5.0
Io e lui
1973
as Rico
5.0
5.0
Spia spione
1967
as Carlo Barazzetti
5.0
5.0
Honey Horn
2000
as Marino
5.0
5.0
Cinema
1989
as Francisco
4.9
4.9
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971
as Rosario Trapenese
4.9
4.9
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
4.7
4.7
The Conjugal Debt
1970
as Orazio
4.6
4.6
My Darling Slave
1973
as Demetrio Cultura
4.5
4.5
The Lovemakers
1970
as Carlo Danieli
4.5
4.5
A Rose for Everyone
1967
as Lino
4.4
4.4
The Union
1972
as Saverio Ravizzi
4.4
4.4
Una noche embarazosa
1977
as Amalio Badalamenti
4.2
4.2
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
4.2
4.2
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000
as Mazzaro
4.2
4.2
Il gatto mammone
1975
as Lollo Mascalucia
4.2
4.2
Homo Eroticus
1971
as Michele Cannaritta
4.1
4.1
When Women Had Tails
1970
as Kao
4.0
4.0
O Diabo na Cama
1988
4.0
4.0
House of Pleasure
1969
as Conte Lombardini
4.0
4.0
Love and Marriage
1964
as (segment "Prima notte, La")
3.9
3.9
Wrong Beds
1965
as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
3.9
3.9
For a Few Dollars Less
1966
as Bill
3.8
3.8
Anyone Can Play
1967
as ricattatore
3.7
3.7
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969
as Vittorio Coppa
3.5
3.5
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966
as Serg. Gringo
3.5
3.5
Criminal Affair
1968
as Esteban de Flori
3.5
3.5
On the Day of the Lord
1970
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
3.3
3.3
The Handsome Devil
1974
as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
3.1
3.1
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972
as Ham
3.0
3.0
The Beasts
1971
as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
2.9
2.9
La calandria
1972
as Lidio
2.8
2.8
Jus primae noctis
1972
as Ariberto da Ficulle
2.8
2.8
Lend Me Your Wife
1980
as Alex Fortini
2.7
2.7
Il fidanzamento
1975
as Luigi Mannozzi
2.5
2.5
The Double Bed
1965
as Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
2.5
2.5
Case Chiuse
2011
2.3
2.3
The Married Priest
1970
as Don Salvatore
1.7
1.7
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978
as Memé Di Costanzo
Sunstroke
1968
as Giovanni Angelo Errani
Better a Widow
1968
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
as Mario
La donna a una dimensione
1969
as Tv-host
Extraconiugale
1964
as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003
as Anfitrione
The Bird People
1999
as Antonio Lombardi
Una famiglia per caso
2003
Su e giù
1965
as Cuccio
Los crápulas
1981
Senza sole nè luna
1964
as Bruno
Incidenti
2005
as presentatore
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