Gino Buzzanca
Appearance
Gino Buzzanca | |
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Born | Messina, Italy | 8 March 1912
Died | 5 May 1985 Rome, Italy | (aged 73)
Gino Buzzanca (8 March 1912 – 5 May 1985) was an Italian film actor.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Messina, Buzzanca began his career on stage, specializing as an actor of the Sicilian language theater, and starring in works by Luigi Pirandello and Giovanni Verga.[1] Discovered by Luigi Zampa, who offered him a role of weight in the film Easy Years, Buzzanca then had a long film career as a character actor, often cast in negative roles.[1] He also appeared in several Spaghetti Westerns, usually credited as Bill Jackson.[1] He was the uncle of the actor Lando Buzzanca.[1]
Partial filmography
[edit]- Easy Years (1953) - Barone Ferdinando LaPrua
- Woman of Rome (1954) - Riccardo
- Due lacrime (1954) - Tony
- The Art of Getting Along (1955) - Il barone Mazzei
- Are We Men or Corporals? (1955) - Il regista
- Il bidone (1955) - Saro (uncredited)
- Yalis, la vergine del Roncador (1955)
- Agguato sul mare (1955) - Elia
- A Woman Alone (1956)
- Vendicata! (1956)
- Roland the Mighty (1956)
- Peccato di castità (1956)
- Parola di ladro (1957)
- Addio sogni di gloria (1957)
- Doctor and the Healer (1957) - Il sindaco di Pianetta
- A sud niente di nuovo (1957)
- Rascel-Fifì (1957) - Gionata - il capo della gang
- L'amore nasce a Roma (1958) - padre di Mario
- Serenatella sciuè sciuè (1958) - don Ciccillo
- Caporale di giornata (1958) - Commendator Bianconi
- Conspiracy of the Borgias (1959)
- Arriva la banda (1959) - Il padre di Anna
- Il cavaliere senza terra (1959)
- I mafiosi (1959) - John Mistretta
- Prepotenti più di prima (1959) - Rosario
- Perfide.... ma belle (1959)
- Nel blu dipinto di blu (1959) - The Sicilian Industrialist
- Guardatele ma non toccatele (1959) - Maggiore
- Tipi da spiaggia (1959) - Giovanni Buzzanca - the theatre manager
- Gentlemen Are Born (1960)
- Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) - Mercante #2
- Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960) - Capitan Uncino
- Caravan petrol (1960)
- Garibaldi (1961) - Rosa's Father
- L'onorata società (1961) - Salvatore Zappalà
- The Secret of the Black Falcon (1961) - Gouverneur di Melida
- Totòtruffa 62 (1961) - The Ambassador of Nicarogua
- The Fascist (1961)
- Maciste contro Ercole nella valle dei guai (1961)
- L'urlo dei bolidi (1961)
- Caribbean Hawk (1962) - Nobleman (uncredited)
- Duel of Fire (1962) - Barone Carteri
- Musketeers of the Sea (1962) - Capo Ciurma Gutierrez
- Love in Four Dimensions (1964)
- I due mafiosi (1964) - Don Calogero
- I due toreri (1965) - Maresciallo
- Soldati e caporali (1965) - Maresciallo Luigi Donatone
- Two Mafiosi Against Goldginger (1965) - (uncredited)
- Due mafiosi contro Al Capone (1966) - Calogero
- Ringo and Gringo Against All (1966) - Il messicano
- I due sanculotti (1966) - Executioner
- Giorno caldo al Paradiso Show (1966)
- 7 monaci d'oro (1966) - Alfio
- Cjamango (1967)
- The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967) - Bookmaker
- Don't Wait, Django... Shoot! (1967) - Don Alvarez (final film role)