1935-08-24 Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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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W gli sposi | Reverend | 2018-01-01 |
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Chi salverà le rose? | Claudio | 2017-03-23 |
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Case Chiuse | 2011-11-03 | |
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Lo scandalo della Banca Romana | Bernardo Tanlongo | 2010-01-01 |
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Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo | Self | 2009-12-06 |
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I Vicerè | Prince Giacomo | 2007-11-09 |
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Chiara e Francesco | Pietro di Bernardone | 2007-01-01 |
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Incidenti | presentatore | 2005-03-25 |
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Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio | 2004-09-24 | |
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Quattro passi nel Cinema | Anfitrione | 2003-01-01 |
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Una famiglia per caso | 2003-01-05 | |
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Cornetti al miele | Marino | 2000-05-10 |
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Il segreto del giaguaro | Mazzaro | 2000-03-24 |
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Il popolo degli uccelli | Antonio Lombardi | 1999-07-23 |
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Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno | Mario | 1994-10-13 |
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Cinema | Francisco | 1989-05-30 |
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O Diabo na Cama | 1988-06-16 | |
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato | Valeriano | 1987-10-28 |
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Vado a vivere da solo | Giuseppe | 1982-11-04 |
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Los crápulas | 1981-06-11 | |
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Prestami tua moglie | Alex Fortini | 1980-10-03 |
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Travolto dagli affetti familiari | Memé Di Costanzo | 1978-12-22 |
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Una noche embarazosa | Amalio Badalamenti | 1977-12-29 |
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San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne | Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro' | 1976-03-02 |
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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza | Costante Nicosia | 1975-08-21 |
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Il fidanzamento | Luigi Mannozzi | 1975-02-28 |
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Il gatto mammone | Lollo Mascalucia | 1975-12-05 |
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Bello come un arcangelo | Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone | 1974-06-04 |
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L'arbitro | Carmelo Lo Cascio | 1974-03-23 |
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Il domestico | Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni | 1974-10-04 |
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Il magnate | 1973-03-02 | |
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Io e lui | Rico | 1973-09-19 |
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La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no | Demetrio Cultura | 1973-10-04 |
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La calandria | Lidio | 1972-12-21 |
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L'uccello migratore | Andrea Pomeraro | 1972-08-30 |
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Jus primae noctis | Ariberto da Ficulle | 1972-09-07 |
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Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne | Senatore Gianni Puppis | 1972-03-16 |
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Quando le donne persero la coda | Ham | 1972-02-24 |
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Il sindacalista | Saverio Ravizzi | 1972-08-29 |
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Le belve | Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli | 1971-04-25 |
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Homo Eroticus | Michele Cannaritta | 1971-09-14 |
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Il vichingo venuto dal sud | Rosario Trapenese | 1971-08-12 |
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Il merlo maschio | Niccolo Vivaldi | 1971-09-22 |
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Il debito coniugale | Orazio | 1970-09-28 |
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Un caso di coscienza | Salvatore Vaccagnino | 1970-03-04 |
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Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere! | Ricky Ceciarelli | 1970-10-08 |
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Quando le donne avevano la coda | Kao | 1970-10-15 |
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Nel giorno del signore | Primo fidanzato di Margherita | 1970-03-18 |
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La prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo | Carlo Danieli | 1970-12-19 |
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Il prete sposato | Don Salvatore | 1970-11-01 |
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La Belva | Stagecoach Driver (uncredited) | 1970-09-12 |
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Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte | Conte Lombardini | 1969-01-01 |
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Monte Carlo or Bust! | Marcello Agost | 1969-04-28 |
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La donna a una dimensione | Tv-host | 1969-03-11 |
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Warum hab ich bloss zwei mal ja gesagt | Vittorio Coppa | 1969-09-04 |
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Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza | Nunzio di Licordia | 1969-11-06 |
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7 uomini e un cervello | Esteban de Flori | 1968-10-17 |
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Colpo di sole | Giovanni Angelo Errani | 1968-03-24 |
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Meglio Vedova | 1968-10-08 | |
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Operazione San Pietro | Napoleone | 1967-12-29 |
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Le dolci signore | ricattatore | 1967-09-21 |
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Don Giovanni in Sicilia | Giovanni Percolla | 1967-04-21 |
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Spia spione | Carlo Barazzetti | 1967-08-18 |
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Una rosa per tutti | Lino | 1967-01-18 |
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Ringo e Gringo contro tutti | Serg. Gringo | 1966-08-15 |
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Per qualche dollaro in meno | Bill | 1966-08-11 |
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After the Fox | Police Chief | 1966-09-08 |
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James Tont operazione D.U.E. | James Tont Agent 007 1/2 | 1966-03-16 |
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I nostri mariti | Ragionier Manzi | 1966-08-21 |
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Su e giù | Cuccio | 1965-04-17 |
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Made in Italy | Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2") | 1965-12-22 |
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James Tont operazione U.N.O. | James Tont Agent 007 1/2 | 1965-11-20 |
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Le lit à deux places | Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre") | 1965-08-06 |
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Letti sbagliati | Birolli (Segment "Il complicato") | 1965-04-08 |
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Le Corniaud | Lino, barber | 1965-03-24 |
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L'Idea Fissa | (segment "Prima notte, La") | 1964-10-16 |
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Sedotta e abbandonata | Antonio Ascalone | 1964-01-30 |
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La paura numero uno | Il Brigadiere | 1964-03-18 |
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Senza sole nè luna | Bruno | 1964-01-01 |
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Extraconiugale | Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia") | 1964-12-24 |
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Cadavere per signora | Enzo, fratello di Laura | 1964-08-19 |
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I marziani hanno 12 mani | Lo sposo | 1964-06-21 |
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Il magnifico cornuto | Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited) | 1964-10-19 |
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Amore in quattro dimensioni | (segment "Amore e alfabeto") | 1964-03-21 |
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La parmigiana | Michele Pantanò | 1963-02-13 |
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I mostri | Luchino (segment "Come un padre") | 1963-10-30 |
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La smania addosso | Carabiniere Sanfilippo | 1963-09-14 |
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Le monachine | Amilcare Franzetti | 1963-08-29 |
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I giorni contati | Cesare's Son | 1962-04-05 |
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Divorzio all'italiana | Rosario Mulè | 1961-12-20 |
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Ben-Hur | Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited) | 1959-11-18 |
