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.
Movie | Who Will Save The Roses? | Claudio | 2017-03-23 |
Series | Il restauratore | Basilio Corsi | 2012-01-08 |
Movie | Case Chiuse | 2011-11-03 | |
Movie | Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana | Bernardo Tanlongo | 2010-01-01 |
Series | Terra ribelle | Generale Malagridas | 2010-02-03 |
Movie | I Vicerè | Prince Giacomo | 2007-11-09 |
Movie | Incidenti | presentatore | 2005-03-25 |
Movie | How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio | 2004-09-24 | |
Movie | Una famiglia per caso | 2003-01-05 | |
Movie | Il segreto del giaguaro | Mazzaro | 2000-03-24 |
Movie | Cornetti al miele | Marino | 2000-05-10 |
Movie | The Bird People | Antonio Lombardi | 1999-07-23 |
Movie | Secondo Ponzio Pilato | Valeriano | 1987-08-07 |
Movie | I'm Going to Live by Myself | Giuseppe | 1982-11-04 |
Movie | Lend Me Your Wife | Alex Fortini | 1980-10-03 |
Movie | Swept Away by Family Affection | Memé Di Costanzo | 1978-12-22 |
Movie | Una noche embarazosa | 1977-12-29 | |
Movie | San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women | Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro' | 1976-03-02 |
Movie | Il fidanzamento | Luigi Mannozzi | 1975-02-28 |
Movie | The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza | Costante Nicosia | 1975-08-21 |
Movie | Il gatto mammone | Lollo Mascalucia | 1975-12-05 |
Movie | Playing the Field | Carmelo Lo Cascio | 1974-03-23 |
Movie | The Handsome Devil | Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone | 1974-06-04 |
Movie | The Household | Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni | 1974-10-04 |
Movie | Wife for Sale | 1973-03-02 | |
Movie | My Darling Slave | Demetrio Cultura | 1973-10-04 |
Movie | Io e lui | Rico | 1973-09-19 |
Movie | The Union | Saverio Ravizzi | 1972-08-29 |
Movie | When Women Lost Their Tails | Ham | 1972-02-24 |
Movie | The Eroticist | Senatore Gianni Puppis | 1972-03-16 |
Movie | The Migratory Bird | Andrea Pomeraro | 1972-08-30 |
Movie | Jus primae noctis | Ariberto da Ficulle | 1972-09-07 |
Movie | La calandria | Lidio | 1972-12-21 |
Movie | The Beasts | Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli | 1971-04-25 |
Movie | No One Will Notice You're Naked | Rosario Trapenese | 1971-08-12 |
Movie | Homo Eroticus | Michele Cannaritta | 1971-09-14 |
Movie | Secret Fantasy | Niccolo Vivaldi | 1971-09-22 |
Movie | The Beast | Stagecoach Driver (uncredited) | 1970-09-12 |
Movie | Un caso di coscienza | Salvatore Vaccagnino | 1970-03-04 |
Movie | On the Day of the Lord | Primo fidanzato di Margherita | 1970-03-18 |
Movie | The Conjugal Debt | Orazio | 1970-09-28 |
Movie | Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! | Ricky Ceciarelli | 1970-10-08 |
Movie | The Lovemakers | Carlo Danieli | 1970-12-19 |
Movie | The Married Priest | Don Salvatore | 1970-11-01 |
Movie | When Women Had Tails | Kao | 1970-10-15 |
Movie | House of Pleasure | Conte Lombardini | 1969-01-01 |
Movie | La donna a una dimensione | Tv-host | 1969-03-11 |
Movie | The Viking Who Became a Bigamist | Vittorio Coppa | 1969-09-04 |
Movie | Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza | Nunzio di Licordia | 1969-11-06 |
Movie | Monte Carlo or Bust! | Marcello Agost | 1969-04-28 |
Movie | Sunstroke | Giovanni Angelo Errani | 1968-03-24 |
Movie | Better a Widow | 1968-10-08 | |
Movie | Sexy Susan Sins Again | Conte Lombardini | 1968-11-26 |
Movie | Criminal Affair | Esteban de Flori | 1968-10-17 |
Movie | Don Juan in Sicily | Giovanni Percolla | 1967-04-21 |
Movie | A Rose for Everyone | Lino | 1967-01-18 |
Movie | Spia spione | Carlo Barazzetti | 1967-08-18 |
Movie | Anyone Can Play | ricattatore | 1967-09-21 |
Movie | Operation San Pietro | Napoleone | 1967-12-29 |
Movie | For a Few Dollars Less | Bill | 1966-08-11 |
Movie | James Tont Operation T.W.O. | James Tont Agent 007 1/2 | 1966-03-16 |
Movie | Ringo and Gringo Against All | Serg. Gringo | 1966-08-15 |
Movie | Our Husbands | Ragionier Manzi | 1966-08-21 |
Movie | After the Fox | Police Chief | 1966-09-08 |
Movie | Letti sbagliati | Birolli (Segment "Il complicato") | 1965-04-08 |
Movie | The Sucker | Lino, le barbier | 1965-03-24 |
Movie | The Double Bed | Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre") | 1965-08-06 |
Movie | James Tont Operation U.N.O. | James Tont Agent 007 1/2 | 1965-11-20 |
Movie | Made in Italy | Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2") | 1965-12-22 |
Movie | The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars | Lo sposo | 1964-06-21 |
Movie | Seduced and Abandoned | Antonio Ascalone | 1964-01-30 |
Movie | Love in Four Dimensions | (segment "Amore e alfabeto") | 1964-03-21 |
Movie | Corpse for the Lady | Enzo, fratello di Laura | 1964-08-19 |
Movie | Love and Marriage | (segment "Prima notte, La") | 1964-10-16 |
Movie | Extraconiugale | Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia") | 1964-12-24 |
Movie | The Magnificent Cuckold | Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited) | 1964-10-19 |
Movie | The Girl from Parma | Michele Pantanò | 1963-02-13 |
Movie | The Little Nuns | Amilcare Franzetti | 1963-08-29 |
Movie | The Eye of the Needle | Carabiniere Sanfilippo | 1963-09-14 |
Movie | The Monsters | Luchino (segment "Come un padre") | 1963-10-30 |
Movie | His Days Are Numbered | Figlio di Cesare | 1962-04-05 |
Movie | Divorce Italian Style | Rosario Mulè | 1961-12-20 |
Movie | Ben-Hur | Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited) | 1959-11-18 |