Lando Buzzanca
Aug 24, 1935 — Dec 18, 2022 (87 years)
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
79 Movies
6 Series
Originally from Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Lando Buzzanca works as an actor. Their credits include The Sucker as Lino, le barbier. Their work further includes Divorce Italian Style and The Monsters. Their filmography spans 79 films and 6 TV productions across 67 years, working mainly across genres like comedy, crime, drama.
87R.I.P.
79Movies
6Series
Lando Buzzanca
79 Movies
6 Series
Originally from Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Lando Buzzanca works as an actor. Their credits include The Sucker as Lino, le barbier. Their work further includes Divorce Italian Style and The Monsters. Their filmography spans 79 films and 6 TV productions across 67 years, working mainly across genres like comedy, crime, drama.
87 R.I.P.
R.I.P.
79
Movies
6
Series
Movies
Ben-Hur
1959
The Monsters
1963
Il gatto mammone
1975
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
When Women Had Tails
1970
The Sucker
1965
The Eroticist
1972
After the Fox
1966
Seduced and Abandoned
1964
Operation San Pietro
1967
Divorce Italian Style
1961
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964
Secret Fantasy
1971
Made in Italy
1965
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
A Rose for Everyone
1967
Anyone Can Play
1967
The Double Bed
1965
Homo Eroticus
1971
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972
His Days Are Numbered
1962
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
The Lovemakers
1970
Criminal Affair
1968
The Conjugal Debt
1970
I Vicerè
2007
Chiara e Francesco
2007
The Union
1972
For a Few Dollars Less
1966
The Beast
1970
Lend Me Your Wife
1980
Our Husbands
1966
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982
According to Pontius Pilate
1988
Don Juan in Sicily
1967
Playing the Field
1974
My Darling Slave
1973
On the Day of the Lord
1970
La calandria
1972
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017
The Eye of the Needle
1963
The Girl from Parma
1963
Jus primae noctis
1972
Una noche embarazosa
1977
Io e lui
1973
Il fidanzamento
1975
The Little Nuns
1963
House of Pleasure
1969
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When Women Lost Their Tails
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W gli sposi
Reverend
2018
Film
Who Will Save The Roses?
Claudio
2017
Film
Deadly Game
Franco Binasco (2013)
2013
TV
Il restauratore
Basilio Corsi
2012–
TV
Terra ribelle
General Malagridas
2012
TV
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo
2010
TV
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Bernardo Tanlongo
2010
Film
I Vicerè
Prince Giacomo
2007
Film
The Baroness of Carini
Don Ippolito
2007
TV
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Lando Buzzanca still alive?
Lando Buzzanca passed away on December 18, 2022 at age 87.
What are the most famous roles of Lando Buzzanca?
Lando Buzzanca is best known for roles in Ben-Hur, The Sucker, Divorce Italian Style.
How many movies has Lando Buzzanca been in?
Over a 63-year career (since 1959), Lando Buzzanca has appeared in 92 movies and 7 TV shows.
What was Lando Buzzanca's first movie?
The career of Lando Buzzanca began with Ben-Hur (1959).
What is Lando Buzzanca's most recent movie or series?
Lando Buzzanca's most recent release is W gli sposi, which premiered on January 1, 2018.
What TV shows has Lando Buzzanca appeared in?
On television, Lando Buzzanca has appeared in Il restauratore, The Baroness of Carini, Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi, Terra ribelle.
Lando Buzzanca
1935-08-24 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.Lando Buzzanca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.