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.
Acted in 94
2010s
- 2018
W gli sposi
Reverend
- 2017
- 2013
Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013) · 2 episodes
- 2012
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi · 28 episodes
- 2010
Terra ribelle
General Malagridas · 8 episodes
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo · 2 episodes
2000s
- 2007
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
The Baroness of Carini
Don Ippolito · 2 episodes
Chiara e Francesco
Pietro di Bernardone
- 2005
Incidenti
presentatore
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Federico Vivaldi · 12 episodes
- 2003
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Anfitrione
- 2000
Honey Horn
Marino
Libero
Ospite speciale · 1 episode
1990s
- 1999
The Bird People
Antonio Lombardi
- 1994
Once a Year, Every Year
Mario
1980s
- 1988
O Diabo na Cama
Movie
- 1982
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Giuseppe
- 1981
Los crápulas
Movie
- 1980
Lend Me Your Wife
Alex Fortini
1970s
- 1978
Swept Away by Family Affection
Memé Di Costanzo
- 1977
Una noche embarazosa
Amalio Badalamenti
- 1976
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
- 1975
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Costante Nicosia
Il fidanzamento
Luigi Mannozzi
- 1974
The Household
Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
The Handsome Devil
Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
Playing the Field
Carmelo Lo Cascio
- 1973
My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultura
Io e lui
Rico
Wife for Sale
Furio Cicerone
- 1972
La calandria
Lidio
Jus primae noctis
Ariberto da Ficulle
The Migratory Bird
Andrea Pomeraro
The Union
Saverio Ravizzi
- 1971
Secret Fantasy
Niccolo Vivaldi
Homo Eroticus
Michele Cannaritta
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapenese
The Beasts
Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
- 1970
The Lovemakers
Carlo Danieli
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Ricky Ceciarelli
The Conjugal Debt
Orazio
The Beast
Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
On the Day of the Lord
Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Un caso di coscienza
Salvatore Vaccagnino
1960s
- 1969
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Nunzio di Licordia
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Vittorio Coppa
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Marcello Agost
La donna a una dimensione
Tv-host
House of Pleasure
Conte Lombardini
- 1968
Criminal Affair
Esteban de Flori
Sunstroke
Giovanni Angelo Errani
- 1967
Operation San Pietro
Napoleone
Anyone Can Play
ricattatore
Don Juan in Sicily
Giovanni Percolla
A Rose for Everyone
Lino
- 1966
Our Husbands
Ragionier Manzi
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Serg. Gringo
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Io, Gigliola
TV
- 1965
Made in Italy
Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
James Tont Agent 007 1/2
The Double Bed
Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
Su e giù
Cuccio
Wrong Beds
Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
- 1964
Extraconiugale
Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
The Magnificent Cuckold
Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Love and Marriage
(segment "Prima notte, La")
Corpse for the Lady
Enzo, fratello di Laura
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Lo sposo
Love in Four Dimensions
(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
La paura numero uno
Il Brigadiere
Seduced and Abandoned
Antonio Ascalone
Senza sole nè luna
Bruno
- 1963
The Eye of the Needle
Carabiniere Sanfilippo
The Little Nuns
Amilcare Franzetti
The Girl from Parma
Michele Pantanò
- 1962
His Days Are Numbered
Cesare's Son
- 1961
La trincea
soldato italiano
Appearances2
2000s
- 2009
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
- 2004
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Self