Lando Buzzanca
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Lando Buzzanca in 2009 at the Roma Fiction Festival
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| Born | Gerlando Buzzanca 24 August 1935 Palermo, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1959–present |
Gerlando Buzzanca (born 24 August 1935 in Palermo) is an Italian comedy actor.
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Life and career
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.
On November 2, 2014, Buzzanca appeared on Domeica Live with host Barbara D'Urso. He spoke about living in poverty, about his wife, who died 4 years earlier, and about his 2 sons and his grandchildren.
Filmography
1959 – 1969
1970 – 1980
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Other players |
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| 1970 | Nel giorno del Signore | Pietro | Bruno Corbucci | Fred Robsahm, Sydney Earle Chaplin, Ira von Fürstenberg, Lino Banfi, Gino Bramieri, Vittorio Caprioli |
| 1970 | Un caso di coscienza | Salvatore Vaccagnino | Giovanni Grimaldi | Raymond Pellegrin, Aldo Bufi Landi, Nando Gazzolo |
| 1970 | Fermate il mondo…voglio scendere! | Ricky Ceciarelli | Giancarlo Cobelli | Paola Pitagora, Barbara Steele |
| 1970 | When Women Had Tails | Kao | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Senta Berger, Giuliano Gemma, Frank Wolff, Renzo Montagnani, Lino Toffolo, Francesco Mulé, Aldo Giuffrè, Paola Borboni |
- La prima notte del Dottor Danieli, industriale col complesso del... giocattolo (1970)
- Il vichingo venuto dal Sud (1971)
- Homo Eroticus (1971)
- Il merlo maschio (1971)
- La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no (1972)
- The Eroticist (1972)
- Jus primae noctis (1972)
- L'arbitro (1974)
- Il domestico (1974)
- Bello come un arcangelo (1974)
- Il fidanzamento (1975)
- Il gatto mammone (1975)
- San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne (1976)
- Travolto dagli affetti familiari (1978)
- I'm Going to Live by Myself (1982)
- Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1988)
- Tutti gli anni una volta all'anno (1994)
- Il popolo degli uccelli (1999)
- Il segreto del giaguaro (2000)
- Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano (2004)
- Incidenti (2005)
- I Vicerè (2007)
Television
- Cinema (1988)
- Cornetti al miele (1999)
- Una famiglia per caso (2003)
- Il cielo può attendere (2005)
- Mio figlio (2005)
- Chiara e Francesco (2007)
- La baronessa di Carini (2007)
- Lo scandalo della Banca Romana (2010)
- Capri 3 (2010)
- Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi (2010)
- Il Restauratore (2012)
- Terra ribelle – Il nuovo mondo (2012)
- Il Restauratore (2013)
