Acting · Palermo, Sicily, Italy · Born August 24, 1935
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.
MovieW gli sposi
2018
as Reverend
MovieWho Will Save The Roses?
2017
as Claudio
TVDeadly Game
2013
as Franco Binasco (2013)
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2012
as Basilio Corsi
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2011
TVTerra ribelle
2010
as General Malagridas
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2010
as Bernardo Tanlongo
MovieLo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
as Bernardo Tanlongo
MoviePietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
as Self
MovieI Vicerè
2007
as Prince Giacomo
TVThe Baroness of Carini
2007
as Don Ippolito
MovieChiara e Francesco
2007
as Pietro di Bernardone
MovieIncidenti
2005
as presentatore
TVIo e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005
as Federico Vivaldi
MovieHow We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004
as Self
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2003
MovieQuattro passi nel Cinema
2003
as Anfitrione
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2000
as Marino
MovieIl segreto del giaguaro
2000
as Mazzaro
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2000
as Ospite speciale
MovieThe Bird People
1999
as Antonio Lombardi
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1994
as Mario
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1989
as Francisco
MovieO Diabo na Cama
1988
MovieAccording to Pontius Pilate
1988
as Valeriano
MovieI'm Going to Live by Myself
1982
as Giuseppe
MovieLos crápulas
1981
MovieLend Me Your Wife
1980
as Alex Fortini
MovieSwept Away by Family Affection
1978
as Memé Di Costanzo
MovieUna noche embarazosa
1977
as Amalio Badalamenti
MovieSan Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
as Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
MovieIl gatto mammone
1975
as Lollo Mascalucia
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1975
as Costante Nicosia
MovieIl fidanzamento
1975
as Luigi Mannozzi
MovieThe Household
1974
as Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
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1974
as Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
MoviePlaying the Field
1974
as Carmelo Lo Cascio
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1973
as Demetrio Cultura
MovieIo e lui
1973
as Rico
MovieWife for Sale
1973
as Furio Cicerone
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1972
as Lidio
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1972
as Ariberto da Ficulle
MovieThe Migratory Bird
1972
as Andrea Pomeraro
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1972
as Saverio Ravizzi
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1972
as Senatore Gianni Puppis
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1972
as Ham
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1971
as Niccolo Vivaldi
MovieHomo Eroticus
1971
as Michele Cannaritta
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1971
as Rosario Trapenese
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1971
as Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
MovieThe Lovemakers
1970
as Carlo Danieli
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1970
as Don Salvatore
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1970
as Kao
MovieStop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
as Ricky Ceciarelli
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1970
as Orazio
MovieThe Beast
1970
as Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
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1970
as Primo fidanzato di Margherita
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1970
as Salvatore Vaccagnino
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1969
as Nunzio di Licordia
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1969
as Vittorio Coppa
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1969
as Marcello Agost
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1969
as Tv-host
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1969
as Conte Lombardini
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1968
as Esteban de Flori
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1968
MovieSunstroke
1968
as Giovanni Angelo Errani
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1967
as Napoleone
MovieAnyone Can Play
1967
as ricattatore
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1967
as Carlo Barazzetti
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1967
as Giovanni Percolla
MovieA Rose for Everyone
1967
as Lino
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1966
as Police Chief
MovieOur Husbands
1966
as Ragionier Manzi
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1966
as Serg. Gringo
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1966
as Bill
MovieJames Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
MovieMade in Italy
1965
as Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
MovieJames Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965
as James Tont Agent 007 1/2
MovieThe Double Bed
1965
as Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
MovieSu e giù
1965
as Cuccio
MovieWrong Beds
1965
as Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
MovieThe Sucker
1965
as Lino, le barbier
MovieExtraconiugale
1964
as Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
MovieThe Magnificent Cuckold
1964
as Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
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1964
as (segment "Prima notte, La")
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1964
as Enzo, fratello di Laura
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1964
as Lo sposo
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1964
as (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
MovieLa paura numero uno
1964
as Il Brigadiere
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1964
as Antonio Ascalone
MovieSenza sole nè luna
1964
as Bruno
MovieThe Monsters
1963
as Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
MovieThe Eye of the Needle
1963
as Carabiniere Sanfilippo
MovieThe Little Nuns
1963
as Amilcare Franzetti
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1963
as Michele Pantanò
MovieHis Days Are Numbered
1962
as Cesare's Son
MovieDivorce Italian Style
1961
as Rosario Mulè
MovieLa trincea
1961
as soldato italiano
MovieBen-Hur
1959
as Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
