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Gerlando Buzzanca
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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1935-08-24
- event Death Date 2022-12-18
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 4.7
- info Birth Place Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Lando Buzzanca
5.6
The Eroticist
1972-03-16
0
Once a Year, Every Year
1994-10-13
0
Los crápulas
1981-06-11
3.2
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972-02-24
7.4
The Sucker
1965-03-24
5.8
The Beast
1970-09-12
6.7
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004-09-24
7.7
Seduced and Abandoned
1964-01-30
5.6
The Conjugal Debt
1970-09-28
7.2
His Days Are Numbered
1962-04-05
7.4
The Monsters
1963-10-30
6
I Vicerè
2007-11-09
5.9
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969-04-28
4.5
When Women Had Tails
1970-10-15
6
Made in Italy
1965-12-22
4.9
The Lovemakers
1970-12-19
6.3
Secret Fantasy
1971-09-22
3.8
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969-09-04
4.8
My Darling Slave
1973-10-04
5.5
Operation San Pietro
1967-12-29
0
Senza sole nè luna
1964-01-01
4
For a Few Dollars Less
1966-08-11
5.7
Our Husbands
1966-08-21
4.5
Il gatto mammone
1975-12-05
3.5
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966-08-15
5
Love in Four Dimensions
1964-03-21
7
Secondo Ponzio Pilato
1988-01-15
3.9
Anyone Can Play
1967-09-21
4.7
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971-08-12
4
The Handsome Devil
1974-06-04
6.2
The Household
1974-10-04
7.4
The Girl from Parma
1963-02-13
7.2
The Eye of the Needle
1963-09-14
8.5
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969-11-06
4.9
Una noche embarazosa
1977-12-29
4.8
Homo Eroticus
1971-09-14
4.2
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000-03-24
3.5
La calandria
1972-12-21
6.5
Wife for Sale
1973-03-02
5.3
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976-03-02
5.3
Playing the Field
1974-03-23
3.1
Lend Me Your Wife
1980-10-03
5.1
Don Juan in Sicily
1967-04-21
5
Cornetti al miele
2000-05-10
4.3
On the Day of the Lord
1970-03-18
0
Incidenti
2005-03-25
0
The Bird People
1999-07-23
4.1
The Union
1972-08-29
6
The Migratory Bird
1972-08-30
0
Sunstroke
1968-03-24
5
Spia spione
1967-08-18
5.8
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982-11-04
2
The Beasts
1971-04-25
6.2
The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza
1975-08-21
3.5
House of Pleasure
1969-01-01
7.9
Ben-Hur
1959-11-18
0
Better a Widow
1968-10-08
4.5
A Rose for Everyone
1967-01-18
5.5
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970-10-08
5
Cinema
1989-05-30
0
Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003-01-01
5.5
Love and Marriage
1964-10-16
5
Un caso di coscienza
1970-03-04
1
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978-12-22
2.5
Case Chiuse
2011-11-03
3.5
Il fidanzamento
1975-02-28
6.6
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017-03-23
6
After the Fox
1966-09-08
7.9
Divorce Italian Style
1961-12-20
3
The Married Priest
1970-11-01
6.8
Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana
2010-01-01
7
The Little Nuns
1963-08-29
3.8
Jus primae noctis
1972-09-07
2
Criminal Affair
1968-10-17
4.4
Letti sbagliati
1965-04-08
5.6
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964-06-21
5.1
Corpse for the Lady
1964-08-19
0
La donna a una dimensione
1969-03-11
3
The Double Bed
1965-08-06
6.7
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964-10-19
5
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965-11-20
4
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966-03-16
0
Extraconiugale
1964-12-24
5.8
W gli sposi
2018-01-01
0
O Diabo na Cama
1988-06-16
0
Una famiglia per caso
2003-01-05
0
Su e giù
1965-04-17
5
Io e lui
1973-09-19
9
La paura numero uno
1964-03-18
5.2
Chiara e Francesco
2007-01-01
0
Libero
2000-01-27
3.5
La Baronessa di Carini
2007-10-14
9.5
Terra ribelle
2010-02-03
7.5
Il restauratore
2012-01-08
0
Deadly Game
2013-03-26
9
Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
2005-01-09