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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
W gli sposi
Character:Reverend
Release Date:01/01/2018
Who Will Save The Roses?
Character:Claudio
Release Date:23/03/2017
Case Chiuse
Character:
Release Date:03/11/2011
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
Character:Bernardo Tanlongo
Release Date:01/01/2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Character:Self
Release Date:06/12/2009
I Vicerè
Character:Prince Giacomo
Release Date:09/11/2007
Chiara e Francesco
Character:Pietro di Bernardone
Release Date:01/01/2007
Incidenti
Character:presentatore
Release Date:25/03/2005
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Character:Self
Release Date:24/09/2004
Una famiglia per caso
Character:
Release Date:05/01/2003
Quattro passi nel Cinema
Character:Anfitrione
Release Date:01/01/2003
Honey Horn
Character:Marino
Release Date:10/05/2000
Il segreto del giaguaro
Character:Mazzaro
Release Date:24/03/2000
The Bird People
Character:Antonio Lombardi
Release Date:23/07/1999
Once a Year, Every Year
Character:Mario
Release Date:13/10/1994
Cinema
Character:Francisco
Release Date:30/05/1989
O Diabo na Cama
Character:
Release Date:16/06/1988
According to Pontius Pilate
Character:Valeriano
Release Date:15/01/1988
I'm Going to Live by Myself
Character:Giuseppe
Release Date:04/11/1982
Los crápulas
Character:
Release Date:11/06/1981
Lend Me Your Wife
Character:Alex Fortini
Release Date:03/10/1980
Swept Away by Family Affection
Character:Memé Di Costanzo
Release Date:22/12/1978
Una noche embarazosa
Character:Amalio Badalamenti
Release Date:29/12/1977
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Character:Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Release Date:02/03/1976
Il gatto mammone
Character:Lollo Mascalucia
Release Date:05/12/1975
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Character:Costante Nicosia
Release Date:21/08/1975
Il fidanzamento
Character:Luigi Mannozzi
Release Date:28/02/1975
The Household
Character:Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
Release Date:04/10/1974
The Handsome Devil
Character:Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
Release Date:04/06/1974
Playing the Field
Character:Carmelo Lo Cascio
Release Date:23/03/1974
My Darling Slave
Character:Demetrio Cultura
Release Date:04/10/1973
Io e lui
Character:Rico
Release Date:19/09/1973
Wife for Sale
Character:
Release Date:02/03/1973
La calandria
Character:Lidio
Release Date:21/12/1972
Jus primae noctis
Character:Ariberto da Ficulle
Release Date:07/09/1972
The Migratory Bird
Character:Andrea Pomeraro
Release Date:30/08/1972
The Union
Character:Saverio Ravizzi
Release Date:29/08/1972
The Eroticist
Character:Senatore Gianni Puppis
Release Date:16/03/1972
When Women Lost Their Tails
Character:Ham
Release Date:24/02/1972
Secret Fantasy
Character:Niccolo Vivaldi
Release Date:22/09/1971
Homo Eroticus
Character:Michele Cannaritta
Release Date:14/09/1971
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Character:Rosario Trapenese
Release Date:12/08/1971
The Beasts
Character:Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
Release Date:25/04/1971
The Lovemakers
Character:Carlo Danieli
Release Date:19/12/1970
The Married Priest
Character:Don Salvatore
Release Date:01/11/1970
When Women Had Tails
Character:Kao
Release Date:15/10/1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Character:Ricky Ceciarelli
Release Date:08/10/1970
The Conjugal Debt
Character:Orazio
Release Date:28/09/1970
The Beast
Character:Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
Release Date:12/09/1970
On the Day of the Lord
Character:Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Release Date:18/03/1970
Un caso di coscienza
Character:Salvatore Vaccagnino
Release Date:04/03/1970
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Character:Nunzio di Licordia
Release Date:06/11/1969
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Character:Vittorio Coppa
Release Date:04/09/1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Character:Marcello Agost
Release Date:28/04/1969
La donna a una dimensione
Character:Tv-host
Release Date:11/03/1969
House of Pleasure
Character:Conte Lombardini
Release Date:01/01/1969
Criminal Affair
Character:Esteban de Flori
Release Date:17/10/1968
Better a Widow
Character:
Release Date:08/10/1968
Sunstroke
Character:Giovanni Angelo Errani
Release Date:24/03/1968
Operation San Pietro
Character:Napoleone
Release Date:29/12/1967
Anyone Can Play
Character:ricattatore
Release Date:21/09/1967
Spia spione
Character:Carlo Barazzetti
Release Date:18/08/1967
Don Juan in Sicily
Character:Giovanni Percolla
Release Date:21/04/1967
A Rose for Everyone
Character:Lino
Release Date:18/01/1967
After the Fox
Character:Police Chief
Release Date:08/09/1966
Our Husbands
Character:Ragionier Manzi
Release Date:21/08/1966
Ringo and Gringo Against All
Character:Serg. Gringo
Release Date:15/08/1966
For a Few Dollars Less
Character:Bill
Release Date:11/08/1966
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Character:James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Release Date:16/03/1966
Made in Italy
Character:Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
Release Date:22/12/1965
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
Character:James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Release Date:20/11/1965
The Double Bed
Character:Vincenzo (4 : « Mourir pour vivre »)
Release Date:06/08/1965
Su e giù
Character:Cuccio
Release Date:17/04/1965
Wrong Beds
Character:Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
Release Date:08/04/1965
The Sucker
Character:Lino, le barbier
Release Date:24/03/1965
Extraconiugale
Character:Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
Release Date:24/12/1964
The Magnificent Cuckold
Character:Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Release Date:19/10/1964
Love and Marriage
Character:(segment "Prima notte, La")
Release Date:16/10/1964
Corpse for the Lady
Character:Enzo, fratello di Laura
Release Date:19/08/1964
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Character:Lo sposo
Release Date:21/06/1964
Love in Four Dimensions
Character:(segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Release Date:21/03/1964
La paura numero uno
Character:Il Brigadiere
Release Date:18/03/1964
Seduced and Abandoned
Character:Antonio Ascalone
Release Date:30/01/1964
Senza sole nè luna
Character:Bruno
Release Date:01/01/1964
The Monsters
Character:Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
Release Date:30/10/1963
The Eye of the Needle
Character:Carabiniere Sanfilippo
Release Date:14/09/1963
The Little Nuns
Character:Amilcare Franzetti
Release Date:29/08/1963
The Girl from Parma
Character:Michele Pantanò
Release Date:13/02/1963
His Days are Numbered
Character:Cesare's Son
Release Date:05/04/1962
Divorce Italian Style
Character:Rosario Mulè
Release Date:20/12/1961
Ben-Hur
Character:Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Release Date:18/11/1959
Television Appearances
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