Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca

Born: August 24, 1935
Died: December 18, 2022
in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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 Ben-Hur.

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.

Buzzanca's 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.

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W gli sposi
Title: W gli sposi
Character: Reverend
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Who Will Save The Roses?
Character: Claudio
Released: March 23, 2017
Type: Movie
The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him everyday and has a hard relationship with his daughter. Sometimes love is the only solution but we realize it when it's too late.
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Title: Deadly Game
Character: Franco Binasco (2013)
Released: March 26, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Il restauratore
Character: Basilio Corsi
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
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Case Chiuse
Title: Case Chiuse
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to the fire in the library of Alexandria in Egypt. The brothel is an institution that has spanned the centuries,thru different aspects, different forms. It is an institution that, in Italy, at least officially no longer exists. But it is also an institution that in other countries, still exists. The doc offers a journey that will start from the ruins of Pompeii brothel to get to the lights of Artemis in Berlin, with its soft drinks and its attention to the well-being and to the erotic papyrus from the Egyptian Museum of Turin and the giant Paradise in Girona, that El Pais has called the biggest brothel in Europe.
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Title: Terra ribelle
Character: Generale Malagridas
Released: February 3, 2010
Type: TV
Terra ribelle is a TV series in 2010 and 2012 on Rai 1. The series follows the evolution of the intricate relationship between the two childhood friends Andrea and Iacopo, and two noble sisters decayed, Elena and Luisa, against the backdrop of intrigue and stories of common life of the Tuscan Maremma in the nineteenth century. The drama, produced by Rai Fiction and Albatross Entertainment, is composed of a total of 15 episodes of 100 minutes each, the first of which debuted Sunday, October 17, 2010 in prime time on Rai 1. On 21 October 2012, the fiction back in prime time on Rai 1, with the second season, set in the early '900, tell through the evolution of the love story of Andrea and Elena, the emigration of many Italians, especially Maremma, to South America. The project combines the director Cinzia TH Torrini and screenwriter Peter Exacoustos after the success of the series Elisa di Rivombrosa.
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Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana
Title: Lo Scandalo della Banca Romana
Character: Bernardo Tanlongo
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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I Vicerè
Title: I Vicerè
Character: Prince Giacomo
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: La Baronessa di Carini
Character: Don Ippolito
Released: October 14, 2007
Type: TV
Laura, a young noblewoman who grew up in a convent, is given in marriage to the baron of Carini, an overbearing and lustful man. The life of the young baroness seems destined for unhappiness until she meets Luca Corbara, who arrives in the country to find his origins.
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Incidenti
Title: Incidenti
Character: presentatore
Released: March 25, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Io e mio figlio – Nuove storie per il commissario Vivaldi
Character: Federico Vivaldi
Released: January 9, 2005
Type: TV
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Title: How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
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Una famiglia per caso
Title: Una famiglia per caso
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: Movie
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Cornetti al miele
Title: Cornetti al miele
Character: Marino
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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Il segreto del giaguaro
Title: Il segreto del giaguaro
Character: Mazzaro
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Libero
Character: Ospite speciale
Released: January 27, 2000
Type: TV
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The Bird People
Title: The Bird People
Character: Antonio Lombardi
Released: July 23, 1999
Type: Movie
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Once a Year, Every Year
Title: Once a Year, Every Year
Character: Mario
Released: October 13, 1994
Type: Movie
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Cinema
Title: Cinema
Character: Francisco
Released: May 30, 1989
Type: Movie
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O Diabo na Cama
Title: O Diabo na Cama
Released: June 16, 1988
Type: Movie
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Title: Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Character: Valeriano
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
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I'm Going to Live by Myself
Title: I'm Going to Live by Myself
Character: Giuseppe
Released: November 4, 1982
Type: Movie
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Los crápulas
Title: Los crápulas
Released: June 11, 1981
Type: Movie
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Alex Fortini
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fearing that she will want to ask him for a divorce and alimony, he unwittingly gets into a lot of trouble.
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Swept Away by Family Affection
Title: Swept Away by Family Affection
Character: Memé Di Costanzo
Released: December 22, 1978
Type: Movie
This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy "Il Gatto Mammone", combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca ("The Eroticist", "Il Domestico") with gorgeous, oft-nude body of Gloria Guida (Miss Teen Italy of 1974). Actually, Guida gets to demonstrate a few comic styling of her own as a bohemian theater "actress" who lives in cramped apartment with a whole bunch of other clothing-averse bohemian types. She is very devoted to her older beau Buzzanca, but his life is very complicated due to his own devotion to his very big and very old dog, the ironically named "Piccolo" (basically "Tiny"), and his even older grandmother. In order to take care of these two dependents, he forsakes his loyal girlfriend for a rich female pharmacist (Andrea Ferriola) and moves in with her and her haughty bourgeois mother and aunts--with disastrous results for all involved.
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Una noche embarazosa
Title: Una noche embarazosa
Released: December 29, 1977
Type: Movie
An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Title: San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Character: Giuseppe Cicerchia 'Femminaro'
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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Il gatto mammone
Title: Il gatto mammone
Character: Lollo Mascalucia
Released: December 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
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The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza
Title: The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza
Character: Costante Nicosia
Released: August 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.
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Il fidanzamento
Title: Il fidanzamento
Character: Luigi Mannozzi
Released: February 28, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Household
Title: The Household
Character: Rosario 'Sasa' Cabaduni
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.
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The Handsome Devil
Title: The Handsome Devil
Character: Gaetano 'Tano' Avallone
Released: June 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-year-old daughter of the widowed lawyer "Totonno" Fortis Pantaleo. In order to approach the girl, he enters the graces of the professional, posing as his childhood friend and saying he is willing to eliminate the elderly Donna Mercedes, mother of these, so that he can inherit the substances. Guest of the family, Tano finds himself involved in a whirlwind of feminine attentions, including the free-range governess Immaculate, unnecessarily coveted by the lawyer, and the servant Sisina, desired by the parish priest.
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Playing the Field
Title: Playing the Field
Character: Carmelo Lo Cascio
Released: March 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.
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My Darling Slave
Title: My Darling Slave
Character: Demetrio Cultura
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: Movie
Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano. After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like. This causes a problem, as Demetrius prefers sticking to what he sees as more traditional gender roles. Despite her attempts, Rosalba's persistent attempts to convert him to the rituals of high society, enlightened, or feminine tastes do little more than annoy him. Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can fulfill his visions of peaceful married life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a new wife as a slave. The choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua that he trains to act the way he'd like, then proudly shows to friends and to his former wife, attracting curiosity, envy, and his ex-wife's resentment.
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Io e lui
Title: Io e lui
Character: Rico
Released: September 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", his penis! The "two" in fact, often have different opinions, and sometimes the personality of "it" is stronger than its owner.
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Wife for Sale
Title: Wife for Sale
Released: March 2, 1973
Type: Movie
The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adventures with other women. Gianni is part of the powerful from birth and is used to having everything he wants and wants Clara. But Clara does not want him. Then there is an opportunity: Furio wins an important foreign contract, but needs to have immediately 500 million while the bank can not give it to him before five days. Gianni will lend him money, without interest for five days but for every day of blackberry Furio will have to give him Clara. Furio and Clara accept the contract.
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La calandria
Title: La calandria
Character: Lidio
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
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Jus primae noctis
Title: Jus primae noctis
Character: Ariberto da Ficulle
Released: September 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.
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The Migratory Bird
Title: The Migratory Bird
Character: Andrea Pomeraro
Released: August 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he accidentally becomes the head of the student revolt and ends up in jail.
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The Union
Title: The Union
Character: Saverio Ravizzi
Released: August 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
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The Eroticist
Title: The Eroticist
Character: Senatore Gianni Puppis
Released: March 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
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When Women Lost Their Tails
Title: When Women Lost Their Tails
Character: Ham
Released: February 24, 1972
Type: Movie
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.
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Secret Fantasy
Title: Secret Fantasy
Character: Niccolo Vivaldi
Released: September 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...
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Homo Eroticus
Title: Homo Eroticus
Character: Michele Cannaritta
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong.
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No One Will Notice You're Naked
Title: No One Will Notice You're Naked
Character: Rosario Trapenese
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the Danish "free-sexual-taboo" way of life. He meets and married Karen and succeeded to come back in Italy. Once here, he discovers Karen did a porn movie and his determination on being open minded is over. The typical Sicilian jealousy drives him crazy. Anyway, after a while, Rosario understands that what his wife did before to meet him it has not to be an issue for him. Karen confesses Rosario she signed a contract for a second movie and she could refuse only by paying a fine. The couple doesn't have enough money so they need to find a solution. And what a solution!
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The Beasts
Title: The Beasts
Character: Il Salvatore / Morsetti / Il fachiro / Il marito / Giovanni Apposito / Lanfranco / Il chirurgo / Francesco Sparapaoli
Released: April 25, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Lovemakers
Title: The Lovemakers
Character: Carlo Danieli
Released: December 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
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The Married Priest
Title: The Married Priest
Character: Don Salvatore
Released: November 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
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When Women Had Tails
Title: When Women Had Tails
Character: Kao
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live.
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Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Title: Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Character: Ricky Ceciarelli
Released: October 8, 1970
Type: Movie
This lysergically madcap Italian flick largely eschews any traditional plot. The most noticeable thread involves ventriloquist Ricky becoming a TV star, dressed up as a superhero with an “impish robot” dummy.
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The Conjugal Debt
Title: The Conjugal Debt
Character: Orazio
Released: September 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Stagecoach Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young heiress in order to obtain her considerable inheritance.
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On the Day of the Lord
Title: On the Day of the Lord
Character: Primo fidanzato di Margherita
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
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Un caso di coscienza
Title: Un caso di coscienza
Character: Salvatore Vaccagnino
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
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Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Title: Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Character: Nunzio di Licordia
Released: November 6, 1969
Type: Movie
A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released after fifty years. Due to a mysterious miracle, however, he remained as he is, just like the novice he impaled.
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The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Title: The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Character: Vittorio Coppa
Released: September 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The Italian Vittorio Coppa works as a sleeper car commuter and commutes regularly between Munich and Rome. Because he believes that true love exists only in connection with marriage, he is secretly married twice.
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
Title: Monte Carlo or Bust!
Character: Marcello Agost
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
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La donna a una dimensione
Title: La donna a una dimensione
Character: Tv-host
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists of the student movement, meetings she attends. Paula tries to convert even her teenage children Afdera and Prando, to the ideas of the movement, who end up accepting the mother's convictions and agree to participate in an action of sabotage against a large factory. But when they discover that the factory to be sabotaged is precisely that of the father, they renounce the mission, disappointing the mother.
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House of Pleasure
Title: House of Pleasure
Character: Conte Lombardini
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Susanna travels to Paris with her small group of actors. There she saves Emperor Napoleon from rather painful predicaments, uncovers a number of nasty court intrigues and finds, with much skill and ability, the man of her choice.
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Criminal Affair
Title: Criminal Affair
Character: Esteban de Flori
Released: October 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
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Better a Widow
Title: Better a Widow
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
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Sunstroke
Title: Sunstroke
Character: Giovanni Angelo Errani
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: Movie
One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead.
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Operation San Pietro
Title: Operation San Pietro
Character: Napoleone
Released: December 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
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Anyone Can Play
Title: Anyone Can Play
Character: ricattatore
Released: September 21, 1967
Type: Movie
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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Spia spione
Title: Spia spione
Character: Carlo Barazzetti
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Carlo Barlozzetti, a silly waiter, lives alone in an apartment located across a bank which a Professor and his followers try to robe. While The Professor intends to steal a ring packed with a precious and secret metal alloy guarded in A safety deposit box, his men want to take the money from the safe.
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Don Juan in Sicily
Title: Don Juan in Sicily
Character: Giovanni Percolla
Released: April 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?
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A Rose for Everyone
Title: A Rose for Everyone
Character: Lino
Released: January 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.
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After the Fox
Title: After the Fox
Character: Police Chief
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: Movie
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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Our Husbands
Title: Our Husbands
Character: Ragionier Manzi
Released: August 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
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Ringo and Gringo Against All
Title: Ringo and Gringo Against All
Character: Serg. Gringo
Released: August 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Two bumbling southern soldiers are still trying to fight the Civil War unaware of its conclusion and encouraged by two southern belles who are trying to hope those who wish to continue the conflict.
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For a Few Dollars Less
Title: For a Few Dollars Less
Character: Bill
Released: August 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
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James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Title: James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Character: James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Giulio (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 2")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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James Tont Operation U.N.O.
Title: James Tont Operation U.N.O.
Character: James Tont Agent 007 1/2
Released: November 20, 1965
Type: Movie
The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger.
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The Double Bed
Title: The Double Bed
Character: Vincenzo (segment 4 "Mourir pour vivre")
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
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Su e giù
Title: Su e giù
Character: Cuccio
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: Movie
A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while his wife is not at home; a poor man dreams about having an adventure with a beautiful girl; an impoverished nobleman wins at gambling after taking the earring of the wife of a factory owner.
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Letti sbagliati
Title: Letti sbagliati
Character: Birolli (Segment "Il complicato")
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
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The Sucker
Title: The Sucker
Character: Lino, le barbier
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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Extraconiugale
Title: Extraconiugale
Character: Roberto Savello (segment "La doccia")
Released: December 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
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The Magnificent Cuckold
Title: The Magnificent Cuckold
Character: Giovannino - younger Manservant at the Artusis (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
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Love and Marriage
Title: Love and Marriage
Character: (segment "Prima notte, La")
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
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Corpse for the Lady
Title: Corpse for the Lady
Character: Enzo, fratello di Laura
Released: August 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Title: The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Character: Lo sposo
Released: June 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
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Love in Four Dimensions
Title: Love in Four Dimensions
Character: (segment "Amore e alfabeto")
Released: March 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
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La paura numero uno
Title: La paura numero uno
Character: Il Brigadiere
Released: March 18, 1964
Type: Movie
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Seduced and Abandoned
Title: Seduced and Abandoned
Character: Antonio Ascalone
Released: January 30, 1964
Type: Movie
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
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Senza sole nè luna
Title: Senza sole nè luna
Character: Bruno
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Monsters
Title: The Monsters
Character: Luchino (segment "Come un padre")
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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The Eye of the Needle
Title: The Eye of the Needle
Character: Carabiniere Sanfilippo
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
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The Little Nuns
Title: The Little Nuns
Character: Amilcare Franzetti
Released: August 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
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The Girl from Parma
Title: The Girl from Parma
Character: Michele Pantanò
Released: February 13, 1963
Type: Movie
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
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His Days Are Numbered
Title: His Days Are Numbered
Character: Figlio di Cesare
Released: April 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
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Divorce Italian Style
Title: Divorce Italian Style
Character: Rosario Mulè
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Jewish Slave in the Desert (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.