Lando Buzzanca [53660] Gender: Male Popularity: 0.6913 Birthplace: Palermo, Sicily, Italy Birthday: 1935-08-24 Deathday: 2022-12-18 Age: 87 years Movies: 91 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. W gli sposi2018-01-01 Who Will Save Th2017-03-23 Case Chiuse2011-11-03 Lo scandalo dell2010-01-01 Pietro Germi - T2009-12-06 I Vicerè2007-11-09 Chiara e Frances2007-01-01 Incidenti2005-03-25 How We Got the I2004-09-24 Una famiglia per2003-01-05 Quattro passi ne2003-01-01 Honey Horn2000-05-10 Il segreto del g2000-03-24 The Bird People1999-07-23 Once a Year, Eve1994-10-13 Cinema1989-05-30 O Diabo na Cama1988-06-16 According to Pon1987-10-28 I'm Going to Liv1982-11-04 Los crápulas1981-06-11 Lend Me Your Wif1980-10-03 Swept Away by Fa1978-12-22 Una noche embara1977-12-29 San Pasquale Bay1976-03-02 Il gatto mammone1975-12-05 Il cav. Costante1975-08-21 Il fidanzamento1975-02-28 The Household1974-10-04 The Handsome Dev1974-06-04 Playing the Fiel1974-03-23 My Darling Slave1973-10-04 Io e lui1973-09-19 Wife for Sale1973-03-02 La calandria1972-12-21 Jus primae nocti1972-09-07 The Migratory Bi1972-08-30 The Union1972-08-29 The Eroticist1972-03-16 When Women Lost 1972-02-24 Secret Fantasy1971-09-22 Homo Eroticus1971-09-14 No One Will Noti1971-08-12 The Beasts1971-04-25 The Lovemakers1970-12-19 The Married Prie1970-11-01 When Women Had T1970-10-15 Stop the World..1970-10-08 The Conjugal Deb1970-09-28 The Beast1970-09-12 On the Day of th1970-03-18 Un caso di cosci1970-03-04 Puro siccome un 1969-11-06 The Viking Who B1969-09-04 Monte Carlo or B1969-04-28 La donna a una d1969-03-11 House of Pleasur1969-01-01 Criminal Affair1968-10-17 Better a Widow1968-10-08 Sunstroke1968-03-24 Operation San Pi1967-12-29 Anyone Can Play1967-09-21 Spia spione1967-08-18 Don Juan in Sici1967-04-21 A Rose for Every1967-01-18 After the Fox1966-09-08 Our Husbands1966-08-21 Ringo and Gringo1966-08-15 For a Few Dollar1966-08-11 James Tont Opera1966-03-16 Made in Italy1965-12-22 James Tont Opera1965-11-20 The Double Bed1965-08-06 Su e giù1965-04-17 Wrong Beds1965-04-08 The Sucker1965-03-24 Extraconiugale1964-12-24 The Magnificent 1964-10-19 Love and Marriag1964-10-16 Corpse for the L1964-08-19 The Twelve-Hande1964-06-21 Love in Four Dim1964-03-21 La paura numero 1964-03-18 Seduced and Aban1964-01-30 Senza sole nè l1964-01-01 The Monsters1963-10-30 The Eye of the N1963-09-14 The Little Nuns1963-08-29 The Girl from Pa1963-02-13 His Days Are Num1962-04-05 Divorce Italian 1961-12-20 Ben-Hur1959-11-18