Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca was born on Aug 24, 1935 in Italy. Lando Buzzanca's big-screen debut came with Ben-Hur directed by William Wyler in 1959, strarring Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited). Lando Buzzanca is known for Io e mio figlio - Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi directed by Luciano Odorisio, Daniela Poggi stars as Flavia Conti and Paolo Romio as Yuri. Lando Buzzanca has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Lando Buzzanca achieved is Golden Globes, Italy. The upcoming new tvshow Lando Buzzanca plays is Donne in gioco - Season 1 which will be released on Mar 26, 2013.

Gerlando Buzzanca, best known as Lando Buzzanca, is an Italian theatrical, film and television actor, whose career spanned over 55 years. 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 2015 he has fully recovered from depressive period undertaking a relationship with a younger woman, Antonella. In 2016 he participates as dancer in the television program "Ballando con le stelle" and lives a new and intense romance with a younger actress and journalist Francesca della Valle.