Lando Buzzanca

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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	2.191
Birthday	1935-08-24
Place of Birth	Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Also Known As	Gerlando Buzzanca,

The Eroticist

Once a Year, Every Year

Los crápulas

When Women Lost Their Tails

The Sucker

The Beast

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

Seduced and Abandoned

The Conjugal Debt

His Days Are Numbered

The Monsters

I Vicerè

Monte Carlo or Bust!

When Women Had Tails

Made in Italy

The Lovemakers

Secret Fantasy

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

My Darling Slave

Operation San Pietro

Senza sole nè luna

For a Few Dollars Less

Our Husbands

Il gatto mammone

Ringo and Gringo Against All

Love in Four Dimensions

Secondo Ponzio Pilato

Anyone Can Play

No One Will Notice You're Naked

The Handsome Devil

The Household

The Girl from Parma

The Eye of the Needle

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

Una noche embarazosa

Homo Eroticus

Il segreto del giaguaro

La calandria

Wife for Sale

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women

Playing the Field

Lend Me Your Wife

Don Juan in Sicily

Cornetti al miele

On the Day of the Lord

Incidenti

The Bird People

The Union

The Migratory Bird

Sunstroke

Spia spione

I'm Going to Live by Myself

The Beasts

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

House of Pleasure

Ben-Hur

Better a Widow

A Rose for Everyone

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

Cinema

Quattro passi nel Cinema

Love and Marriage

Un caso di coscienza

Swept Away by Family Affection

Case Chiuse

Il fidanzamento

Who Will Save The Roses?

After the Fox

Divorce Italian Style

The Married Priest

Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana

The Little Nuns

Jus primae noctis

Criminal Affair

Letti sbagliati

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

Corpse for the Lady

La donna a una dimensione

The Double Bed

The Magnificent Cuckold