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.
The Eroticist
(Senatore Gianni Puppis)
Once a Year, Every Year
(Mario)
Los crápulas
When Women Lost Their Tails
(Ham)
The Sucker
(Lino, barber)
The Beast
(Stagecoach Driver (uncredited))
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Seduced and Abandoned
(Antonio Ascalone)
The Conjugal Debt
(Orazio)
His Days Are Numbered
(Cesare's Son)
The Monsters
(Luchino (segment "Come un padre"))
I Vicerè
(Prince Giacomo)
Monte Carlo or Bust!
(Marcello Agost)
When Women Had Tails
(Kao)
Made in Italy
(Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2"))
The Lovemakers
(Carlo Danieli)
Secret Fantasy
(Niccolo Vivaldi)
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
(Vittorio Coppa)
My Darling Slave
(Demetrio Cultura)
Operation San Pietro
(Napoleone)
Senza sole nè luna
(Bruno)
For a Few Dollars Less
(Bill)
Our Husbands
(Ragionier Manzi)
Il gatto mammone
(Lollo Mascalucia)
Ringo and Gringo Against All
(Serg. Gringo)
Love in Four Dimensions
((segment "Amore e alfabeto"))
Secondo Ponzio Pilato
(Valeriano)
Anyone Can Play
(ricattatore)
No One Will Notice You're Naked
(Rosario Trapenese)
The Handsome Devil
(Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone)
The Household
(Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni)
The Girl from Parma
(Michele Pantanò)
The Eye of the Needle
(Carabiniere Sanfilippo)
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
(Nunzio di Licordia)
Una noche embarazosa
(Amalio Badalamenti)
Homo Eroticus
(Michele Cannaritta)
Il segreto del giaguaro
(Mazzaro)
La calandria
(Lidio)
Wife for Sale
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
(Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro')
Playing the Field
(Carmelo Lo Cascio)
Lend Me Your Wife
(Alex Fortini)
Don Juan in Sicily
(Giovanni Percolla)
Cornetti al miele
(Marino)
On the Day of the Lord
(Primo fidanzato di Margherita)
Incidenti
(presentatore)
The Bird People
(Antonio Lombardi)
The Union
(Saverio Ravizzi)
The Migratory Bird
(Andrea Pomeraro)
Sunstroke
(Giovanni Angelo Errani)
Spia spione
(Carlo Barazzetti)
I'm Going to Live by Myself
(Giuseppe)
The Beasts
(Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli)
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
(Costante Nicosia)
House of Pleasure
(Conte Lombardini)
Ben-Hur
(Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited))
Better a Widow
A Rose for Everyone
(Lino)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
(Ricky Ceciarelli)
Cinema
(Francisco)
Quattro passi nel Cinema
(Anfitrione)
Love and Marriage
((segment "Prima notte, La"))
Un caso di coscienza
(Salvatore Vaccagnino)
Swept Away by Family Affection
(Memé Di Costanzo)
Case Chiuse
Il fidanzamento
(Luigi Mannozzi)
Who Will Save The Roses?
(Claudio)
After the Fox
(Police Chief)
Divorce Italian Style
(Rosario Mulè)
The Married Priest
(Don Salvatore)
Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana
(Bernardo Tanlongo)
The Little Nuns
(Amilcare Franzetti)
Jus primae noctis
(Ariberto da Ficulle)
Criminal Affair
(Esteban de Flori)
Letti sbagliati
(Birolli (Segment "Il complicato"))
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
(Lo sposo)
Corpse for the Lady
(Enzo, fratello di Laura)
La donna a una dimensione
(Tv-host)
The Double Bed
(Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre"))
The Magnificent Cuckold
(Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited))
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
(James Tont Agent 007 1/2)
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
(James Tont Agent 007 1/2)
Extraconiugale
(Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia"))
W gli sposi
(Reverend)
O Diabo na Cama
Una famiglia per caso
Su e giù
(Cuccio)
Io e lui
(Rico)
La paura numero uno
(Il Brigadiere)
Chiara e Francesco
(Pietro di Bernardone)
Libero
(Ospite speciale)
La Baronessa di Carini
(Don Ippolito)
Terra ribelle
(Generale Malagridas)
Il restauratore
(Basilio Corsi)
Deadly Game
(Franco Binasco (2013))
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
(Federico Vivaldi)