1935-08-24 ( 89 years old ) in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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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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Movies
W gli sposi
2018-01-01
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017-03-23
Case Chiuse
2011-11-03
Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010-01-01
I Vicerè
2007-11-09
Chiara e Francesco
2007-01-01
Incidenti
2005-03-25
Una famiglia per caso
2003-01-05
Quattro passi nel Cinema
2003-01-01
Cornetti al miele
2000-05-10
Il segreto del giaguaro
2000-03-24
The Bird People
1999-07-23
Once a Year, Every Year
1994-10-13
Cinema
1989-05-30
O Diabo na Cama
1988-06-16
Secondo Ponzio Pilato
1987-10-28
I'm Going to Live by Myself
1982-11-04
Los crápulas
1981-06-11
Lend Me Your Wife
1980-10-03
Swept Away by Family Affection
1978-12-22
Una noche embarazosa
1977-12-29
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976-03-02
Il gatto mammone
1975-12-05
Il fidanzamento
1975-02-28
The Household
1974-10-04
The Handsome Devil
1974-06-04
Playing the Field
1974-03-23
My Darling Slave
1973-10-04
Io e lui
1973-09-19
Wife for Sale
1973-03-02
La calandria
1972-12-21
Jus primae noctis
1972-09-07
The Migratory Bird
1972-08-30
The Union
1972-08-29
The Eroticist
1972-03-16
When Women Lost Their Tails
1972-02-24
Secret Fantasy
1971-09-22
Homo Eroticus
1971-09-14
No One Will Notice You're Naked
1971-08-12
The Beasts
1971-04-25
The Lovemakers
1970-12-19
The Married Priest
1970-11-01
When Women Had Tails
1970-10-15
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970-10-08
The Conjugal Debt
1970-09-28
The Beast
1970-09-12
On the Day of the Lord
1970-03-18
Un caso di coscienza
1970-03-04
The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
1969-09-04
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969-04-28
La donna a una dimensione
1969-03-11
House of Pleasure
1969-01-01
Criminal Affair
1968-10-17
Better a Widow
1968-10-08
Sunstroke
1968-03-24
Operation San Pietro
1967-12-29
Anyone Can Play
1967-09-21
Spia spione
1967-08-18
Don Juan in Sicily
1967-04-21
A Rose for Everyone
1967-01-18
After the Fox
1966-09-08
Our Husbands
1966-08-21
Ringo and Gringo Against All
1966-08-15
For a Few Dollars Less
1966-08-11
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966-03-16
Made in Italy
1965-12-22
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965-11-20
The Double Bed
1965-08-06
Su e giù
1965-04-17
Letti sbagliati
1965-04-08
The Sucker
1965-03-24
Extraconiugale
1964-12-24
The Magnificent Cuckold
1964-10-19
Love and Marriage
1964-10-16
Corpse for the Lady
1964-08-19
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964-06-21
Love in Four Dimensions
1964-03-21
La paura numero uno
1964-03-18
Seduced and Abandoned
1964-01-30
Senza sole nè luna
1964-01-01
The Monsters
1963-10-30
The Eye of the Needle
1963-09-14
The Little Nuns
1963-08-29
The Girl from Parma
1963-02-13
His Days Are Numbered
1962-04-05
Divorce Italian Style
1961-12-20
Ben-Hur
1959-11-18
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