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 BenHur 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 Buzzancas 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
HydraHD
