Gino Buzzanca
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Gino Buzzanca.
Born: March 8, 1912
Known For
Totòtruffa '62
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
The Swindle
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
Doctor and the Healer
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Signori si nasce
Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
The Fascist
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
The Art of Getting Along
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
Easy Years
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
Corporal of the day
A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
Are We Men or Corporals?
These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
Viva l'Italia!
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
Filmography
as Don Alvarez
as iL Messicano
as Calogero
as Alfio
as (uncredited)
as Maresciallo Luigi Donatone
as Cariddu, capo famiglia siciliano
as Il maresciallo
as Don Calogero Sparatore
as Guardia del corpo dei mafiosi (uncredited)
as barone Carteri
as Capo Ciurma Gutierrez
as Nobleman (uncredited)
as capo degli arcieri
as Il console del Nicaragua
as Gouverneur di Melida
as Salvatore Zappalà
as Capitan Uncino
as Mercante #2
as console dell'Irat
as The Sicilian Industrialist
as Barbiere
as Padre di Mario
as Il sindaco di Pianetta
as Gionata Asso di picche
as truffatore
as Ferraù
as Elia
as Saro (uncredited)
as The director of the film about Nero
as Barone Mazzei
as Riccardo
as Tony
as barone Ferdinando La Prua