Italian actor Lando Buzzancaone of the best known faces of Italian cinema and television, died this Sunday 18 December at the age of 87 in Rome, at Villa Speranza, where he had been hospitalized for about a month
Lando Buzzanca, who had made exuberance and sympathy part of his creative style, spent money the last stretch of his life marked by hospitalizations and controversies. His senior year was spent in an aged care home, followed by a stay in hospital and then a rehabilitation center.
Ailments, falls, illnesses and a controversial final sequel that leaves a feeling of nostalgia for the popular actor.
Last month, Buzzanca’s doctor, Fulvio Tomaselli, denounced the decline of the actor in the asylum where he was hospitalized. “He is 87 years old, but he looks 115. He was already in this state in July. In six months he has lost between 25 and 30 kilos,” said the doctor.
a huge race
Buzzanca had a very long career behind him
Born in Palermo, Lando Buzzanca made his debut in 1961 in Italian divorceby Pietro Germi.
Success has come the male blackbird (1971), very sexy Italian comedy, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile
He was most famous for embodying better than anyone else the stereotype of the passionate and jealous Sicilianeven for great directors like Pietro Germi and Antonio Pietrangeli.
He grew up in a family of actors and studied acting at the famous Sharoff Academy, between odd jobs, from waiter to gigolo (something that has come to prove itself).
At 17 he moved to Rome. The film debut comes in 1959 in a historical film, not only for the setting.
It was approx Ben Hurwhere the actor appears in the small role of a slave.
The right opportunity arrives in 1961 with Pietro Germi, who chooses him for the role of Rosario Mule in Italian divorce. The following year, Germi once again entrusted him with a great role, that of Stefania Sandrelli’s brother-in-law seduced and abandoned.
a characteristic character
In 1956 Lando Buzzanca married Lucia, woman with whom he remained for 57 years.
Buzzanca, after Germi’s films, decided not to neglect television and participated in various fictions such as the trench.
Slowly, the actor began to create his own character, that of the woman-loving and often unintelligent provincial.
This recurring mask will also lead him to collaborate with great directors. In 1963 he appeared with Catherine Spaak in parmesan, by Antonio Pietrangeli, in the role of the protagonist’s boring boyfriend. Another big breakthrough in his career came in 1971 with comedy the male blackbirdby Pasquale Festa Campanile, with Laura Antonelli.
that year he starred in what was perhaps his greatest success in Argentina, the film Homo eroticus Super male., which had a great stay in our theaters.
But the 70s are also the years of television success paired with Delia Scala in Mr and Mrs.
In the 1974 film, The referee. He has demonstrated his ability to put himself in other people’s shoes.
Between the end of the 60s and the 70s, the actor collaborated several times with another great director of his career: Lucio Fulci. Together they make three films: Operation San Pietro, Despite appearances Y While the nation doesn’t know it.
The eighties gave him little space in the cinemaalso because for Buzzanca’s tastes the drift that the sexy Italian comedy was taking was by now excessive
Also radio and theater
He made up for his success on radio and in the theatre. She returns to the television limelight in 2005 with the triumph of the Rai1 miniseries My sonborn from an idea of Buzzanca himself who played a carabiniere, Inspector Vivaldi, father of a gay boy (more than 8 million viewers).
He also received critical acclaim for his performance in the feature film in 2007 I Viceroyby Roberto Faenza. Participation in the film guaranteed him victory in a Golden Globe and David di Donatello nomination for Best Actor.
After the successes of The Banca Romana scandal, Commissioner Vivaldi Y The Baroness of Carini. In the restorer instead it is the psychic Basilio,
In 2016 he participated in the eleventh edition of dancing with the Starsdancing in tandem with Sara Mardegan
In 2017 Buzzanca and Carlo Delle Piane play an elderly gay couple in the moving film Who will save the roses?. and participated in the series wildernessthe count shared the bill with two Argentine actors: Michel Noher and Rodrigo Guirào Diaz.
Lando Buzzanca had two sons, Massimiliano and Mario. After his wife’s death in 2010, he had lost his strength and will to live, so much so that in 2013 he even tried to take his own life, without success. To save him from the abyss was the meeting with his new partner, Francesca Della Valle, 35 years his junior.
Source: ANSA
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