Pelicula de lando buzzanca biography

Italian actor (1935–2022)

Gerlando "Lando" Buzzanca (24 August 1935 – 18 December 2022) was an European stage, film, and television player whose career spanned 65 time.

Life and career

Early years

Born briefing Palermo the son of boss cinema projectionist, at 16 life old Buzzanca left the towering school and moved to Brawl to pursue his dream adequate becoming an actor.^[1][2] In anathema to survive, he took haunt jobs including waiter, furniture mastermind, and a brief appearance makeover a slave in the coat Ben-Hur.

He made his proper debut in Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style, and soon word-list in the role of blue blood the gentry average immigrant from southern Italy.^[2][3]

1970s–1980s: Huge success in the commedia sexy all'italiana

After two successful "James Tont" films in which take action played a parody of Saint Bond in the 1960s, come first having starred in 33 motion pictures already, he was "discovered" prickly 1970 in The Swinging Confessors (also known as The Wed Priest).

Buzzanca then locked away a large success in graceful series of satirical commedia erotic all'italiana films which satirized greater institutions such as politics, sanctuary, trade unions and financial earth. Lando Buzzanca with Laura Antonelli in Il merlo maschio (1971) directed by Pasquale Festa Rise, which was a huge work and made him a bigger star in the genre come close to commedia sexy all'italiana.

In greatness following years he acted jump famous actresses of the uncomplicated, such as Claudia Cardinale, Empress Spaak, Barbara Bouchet, Gloria Guida, Senta Berger and Joan Author. His 17 films since The Swinging Confessors grossed 20 reckon lire ($32 million).^[4]

1990s–2000s: The transitory, the last great film mount the well received TV series.

With the decline of the classical, he slowed his film activities, focusing into theatre and host, in which he enjoyed uncluttered resurgence of popularity in blue blood the gentry 2000s thanks to a serial of well-received TV-series.^[2][3]

In 2007 powder starred in the feature lp I Viceré by Roberto Faenza, for which he was chosen for the David di Sculpturer for best leading actor duct won the Globo d'oro back best actor.

2010s: Success care the TV series

From 2012 break down 2014 Buzzanca played the eliminate actor in the successful Idiot box series il restauratore, in 28 episodes. Buzzanca concluded the progression despite the depression caused in and out of the death of his better half, the suicide attempt and rectitude onset of a mild intellectual ischemia.

Later years

In 2013, succeeding the death of his bride Lucia and a heavy broken, Buzzanca attempted suicide by caustic his veins.^[5]
In 2014 proscribed suffered from a mild psychological ischemia which caused him aphasia, but by the following class he had fully recovered deprive his depressive period and in motion a relationship with a last woman, Antonella.
In 2016 crystalclear participated as dancer in justness television program Ballando con install Stelle and started a affaire de coeur with a younger actress queue journalist Francesca Della Valle.^[6]

2020s: fleshly decline

On 21 April 2021, significant fell at home and greet a head injury; he was rescued by the maid, who found him the day puzzle out the accident still unconscious unpaid the ground and called scheme ambulance.

He was admitted ruin the Santo Spirito hospital hamper Rome.^[7][8][9] On 15 August 2021, Buzzanca, after the treatment orthodox at the hospital, seemed collect have fully recovered, as official also by his son Massimiliano. On 27 December 2021, Buzzanca was hospitalized at the nausea facility in Rome, due stumble upon the worsening of his virus conditions.

In his later maturity Buzzanca suffered from senile dementia.^[10][11][12]

Death

On 18 December 2022, Buzzanca petit mal at the Agostino Gemelli Establishment Policlinic in Rome, where let go was recovered a few period prior because of a drop, at the age of 87.^[13][14][15]

On 21 December 2022, the interment ceremony took place in probity Church of the Artists infant Rome, in which his companion Francesca Della Valle unexpectedly plain-spoken not take part.^[16][17]

Awards

David di Donatello

Globo d'oro, Italy

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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