Highest rated movie: Ben-Hur (1959)
Lowest rated movie: When Women Had Tails (1970)
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Movies starring Lando Buzzanca have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Ben-Hur - released in 1959 - is Lando Buzzanca's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 689 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lando Buzzanca is When Women Had Tails - released in 1970 - with a score of 36% based on 3 reviews.
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 Evil 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 bad 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 has acted in films with Jack Hawkins, Giuliano Gemma, Enzo Fiermonte and Senta Berger.
Lando Buzzanca has worked with these film directors: Vittorio De Sica, William Wyler, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Ken Annakin.
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