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Gerlando "Lando" Buzzanca (24 August 1935 – 18 December 2022) was an Italian theatrical, film and television actor whose career spanned over 55 years.

Contents

1 Life and career

2 Awards

3 Filmography

3.1 Television

4 References

5 External links

Life and career

Lando Buzzanca and Delia Scala in the television show Signore e signora (1970)

Born in Palermo the son of a cinema projectionist, at 16 years old Buzzanca left the high school and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. In order to survive, he took many jobs including waiter, furniture mover, and a brief appearance as a slave in the film Ben-Hur. He made his official debut in Pietro Germi's Divorce, Italian Style, and soon specialized in the role of the average immigrant from southern Italy.

After two successful "James Tont" films in which he played a parody of James Bond, starting from the late 1960s, Buzzanca got a large success in a series of satirical commedia sexy all'italiana films which satirized major institutions such as politics, religion, trade unions and financial world. With the decline of the genre, he slowed his film activities, focusing into theatre and television, in which he enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the 2000s thanks to a series of well-received TV-series.

In 2013, following the death of his wife Lucia and a heavy depression, Buzzanca attempted suicide by cutting his veins.

In 2014 he suffered from a mild cerebral ischemia which caused him aphasia, but by the following year he had fully recovered from his depressive period and started a relationship with a younger woman, Antonella.

In 2016 he participated as dancer in the television program Ballando con le Stelle and started a new and intense romance with a younger actress and journalist Francesca Della Valle.

In 2019 Buzzanca lived a great moment of happiness with his partner, Francesca, to whom he has been romantically linked since 2016, whom he would liked to marry.

In 2020 Buzzanca had some disagreements with his two sons, Mario and Massimiliano, for the administration of family assets, and at the request of his sons to the tutelary judge he is joined by an administrator in the management of his assets.

On 21 April 2021, the day after being vaccinated for COVID-19, he fell at home due to a sudden illness that left him unconscious. He suffered a head injury and was rescued by the maid, who found him the day after the accident still unconscious on the ground and called an ambulance.

He was admitted to the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome.

On 15 August 2021, Buzzanca, after the treatment received at the hospital, seems to have fully recovered, as confirmed also by his son Massimiliano. Furthermore, he would be ready to marry again in Rome with his partner Francesca Della Valle.

On 27 December 2021, Buzzanca was hospitalized at the health facility in Rome, due to the worsening of his health conditions. Furthermore, his marriage with his partner Francesca Della Valle was blocked and opposed by the actor's sons due to the deterioration of their father's health conditions.

Awards

David di Donatello

Year

Nominee / work

Award

Result

2008

I Vicerè

Best Actor

Nominated

Golden Globes, Italy

Year

Nominee / work

Award

Result

2008

I Vicerè

Best Actor

Won

Filmography

Year

Film

Role

Director

1959

Ben-Hur

Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)

William Wyler

1961

Divorce, Italian Style

Rosario Mulè

Pietro Germi

1962

His Days Are Numbered

Son of Cesare

Elio Petri

1963

The Eye of the Needle

carabiniere Sanfilippo

Marcello Andrei

1963

The Girl from Parma

Michele Pantanò

Antonio Pietrangeli

1963

Le monachine

Amilcare Franzetti

Luciano Salce

1963

I mostri

Luciana's Husband (segment "Come un padre")

Dino Risi

1964

Extraconjugal

Roberto (segment "La doccia")

Massimo Franciosa

1964

Corpse for the Lady

Enzo

Mario Mattoli

1964

Seduced and Abandoned

Antonio Ascalone

Pietro Germi

1964

Love in Four Dimensions

Sicilian husband

Mino Guerrini (segment "Amore e alfabeto")

1964

I marziani hanno dodici mani

Lo sposo

Castellano & Pipolo

1964

Love and Marriage

(segment "La prima notte")

Mino Guerrini and Gianni Puccini

1964

The Magnificent Cuckold

Guardian

Antonio Pietrangeli

1965

Su e giù

Cuccio (segment "Questione di Principo")

Mino Guerrini

1965

Letti sbagliati

(segment "Il complicato")

Steno

1965

James Tont operazione U.N.O.

James Tont

Bruno Corbucci

1965

James Tont operazione D.U.E.

James Tont

Bruno Corbucci

1965

The Sucker

Lino

Gérard Oury

1965

The Double Bed

Birolli

Jean Delannoy, François Dupont-Midi, Alvaro Mancori and Gianni Puccini

1965

Made in Italy

Giulio (segment "Usi e costumi")

Nanni Loy

1966

For a Few Dollars Less

Bill

Mario Mattoli

1966

Ringo and Gringo Against All

Serg. Gringo

Bruno Corbucci

1966

I nostri mariti

Ragionier Manzi (segment "Il Marito di Olga")

Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi and Luigi Zampa

1966

After the Fox

Police Chief

Vittorio De Sica

1967

Spia, spione

Carlo Barazzetti

Bruno Corbucci

1967

A Rose for Everyone

Lino

Franco Rossi

1967

Don Juan in Sicily

Giovanni Percolla

Alberto Lattuada

1967

Operation St. Peter's

Napoleone

Lucio Fulci

1968

Colpo di sole

?

Mino Guerrini

1968

Anyone Can Play

Blackmailer

Luigi Zampa

1968

Better a Widow

Massito

Duccio Tessari

1968

Criminal Affair

Esteban de Flori

Rossano Brazzi

1969

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza

Nunzio di Licordia

Giovanni Grimaldi

1969

La donna a una dimensione

Host on TV (uncredited)

Bruno Baratti

1969

House of Pleasure

Count Lombardini

Franz Antel

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!

Marcello

Ken Annakin

1970

Un caso di coscienza

Salvatore Vaccagnino

Giovanni Grimaldi

1970

Il debito coniugale

Orazio

Franco Prosperi

1970

Fermate il mondo…voglio scendere!

Ricky Ceciarelli

Giancarlo Cobelli

1970

When Women Had Tails

Kao

Pasquale Festa Campanile

1970

The Swinging Confessors

Don Salvatore

Marco Vicario

1970

La prima notte del Dottor Danieli, industriale col complesso del... giocattolo

Carlo Danieli

Giovanni Grimaldi

1970

Nel giorno del Signore

Pietro

Bruno Corbucci

1971

The Blonde in the Blue Movie

Rosario Trapanese

Steno

1971

Man of the Year

Michele Cannaritta

Marco Vicario

1971

Il merlo maschio

Niccolò Vivaldi

Pasquale Festa Campanile

1971

Le belve

Various characters

Giovanni Grimaldi

1972

The Eroticist

Giacinto "Gianni" Puppis

Lucio Fulci

1972

When Women Lost Their Tails

Ham

Pasquale Festa Campanile

1972

Il sindacalista

Saverio Ravizzi

Luciano Salce

1972

La calandria

Lidio

Pasquale Festa Campanile

1972

L'uccello migratore

Andrea Pomeraro

Steno

1973

My Darling Slave

Demetrio Cultrera

Giorgio Capitani

1973

Il magnate

Furio Cicerone

Giovanni Grimaldi

1973

Io e lui

Rico

Luciano Salce

1974

Playing the Field

Carmelo Lo Cascio

Luigi Filippo D'Amico

1974

Il domestico

Rosario "Sasà" Cabaduni

Luigi Filippo D'Amico

1975

Il fidanzamento

Luigi Mannozzi

Giovanni Grimaldi

1975

Il gatto mammone

Lollo Mascalucia

Nando Cicero

1975

Dracula in the Provinces

Cav. Costante Nicosia

Lucio Fulci

1976

San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne

Giuseppe Cicerchia

Luigi Filippo D'Amico

1978

Travolto dagli affetti familiari

Memé Di Costanzo

Mauro Severino

1980

Prestami tua moglie

Alex Fortini

Giuliano Carnimeo

1982

I'm Going to Live by Myself

Giuseppe

Marco Risi

1987

Secondo Ponzio Pilato

Valerian

Luigi Magni

1994

Once a Year, Every Year

Giuseppe

Marco Risi

2000

Il segreto del giaguaro

Mazzaro

Antonello Fassari

2007

I Vicerè

Prince Giacomo

Roberto Faenza

2017

Chi salverà le rose?

Claudio

Cesare Furesi

2018

W Gli Sposi

Reverendo

Valerio Zanoli

Television

Year

Title

Role