Lando Buzzanca died, the actor was 87 years old

The actor died aged 87. Lando Buzzanca🇧🇷 He was admitted to the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, after his health deteriorated, in November he had already been taken to the hospital after a bad fall. His family broke the news.

It closed after dealing with the aftermath of a disabling disease that hit him in 2021 and from which he never fully recovered, as a result of which his mental and cognitive faculties were compromised, which is why he spent a long time in a clinic that could adequately treat his pathology. In 2014, by the way, he also had ischemia.

Trajectory between cinema and TV

Son of art, because he was born into a family of actors in Palermo, Lanzo Buzzanca entered the world of entertainment at a very young age, at the age of 17, when he moved from Palermo to Rome, he began to attend an acting course at the Academy Sharoff, the first to practice the Stanislaskij method, of which he has also become honorary president over the years. After initially working for theater and cinema, mainly as an extra, he was then chosen in 1961 by Pietro Germi for the role of Rosario in Divorzio all’italiana, which began to give him considerable popularity. Until, in 1967, the main role of the film “Don Giovanni di Sicilia” arrives, signed by Alberto Lattuada.

The real notoriety comes in 1971 with “the male blackbird”, a film by Pasquale Festa Campanile, which inaugurates his period as a protagonist in the vein of Italian sensual comedies, in fact alongside him will star well-known actresses such as Claudia Cardinale, Catherine Spaak, Barbara Bouchet, Senta Berger and Joan Collins. After making a few films of this type, however, he decides to distance himself from it, dedicating himself mainly to radio, where he will be the protagonist of the program “Gran Varietà”, in which he will play the character of Buzzanco, in fact he was born for the series “Signore et Signora”.

Lando Buzzanca in “The Blackbird”

After a few years in which little was seen on the big screen, since he had devoted himself mostly to theatrical activity, he reappears on TV with a fiction that brings him back to the limelight, namely “My son” 2005, in which he played the role of the father of a homosexual boy, obtaining excellent acceptance from the public. Five years later, the fiction also has a continuation or My son and I – New stories for Commissioner Vivaldiin 2010, the year Buzzanca also appears in the miniseries The Banca Romana scandal and Capri 3🇧🇷 Meanwhile, in 2017, he starred in the feature film “I Vicerè”, for which he won the Golden Globe for best actor.

In 2012, then, with the series the restorer on Rai1, it returned to the good graces of the public, so much so that a second season was made the following year. Finally, in 2016, she participated as a competitor in Ballando con le stelle, alongside Sara Mardegan.

Lando Buzzanca in “The Restorer 2”

Difficulties in 2013

On August 7, 2013, the actor was found unconscious in his apartment with the veins in his wrists cut. The suicide attempt was initially denied, then it was Buzzanca himself who confirmed his act in an interview with the weekly newspaper Oggi, a year after the incident, in which he declared:

I went to the bathroom, filled the bathtub and took some melatonin pills, the kind that make you sleepy. I washed them down with a glass of gin. So I broke the glass in the sink. I took a piece of glass and stuck it in my wrists. But slowly, look at the scars: they are not deep… I had prepared the bathtub on purpose, to die there, but it was strange: I was very calm, I looked at the blood on my wrists and I didn’t feel the pain. So I passed out and they found me in the morning. At eight: after 12 hours.

The controversies of recent years

Lando Buzzanca had been hospitalized in 2021 in an Rsa, he was discharged after 40 days in Santo Spirito, after a fall at home. At the time, his companion, Francesca Della Valle, had accused the actor’s support administrator, appointed by his sons Massimiliano and Mario, of preventing him from seeing him.

In November of that year, it was Buzzanca’s son who pointed out that his father’s state of health was not stable: “He has senile dementia”, he declared in an interview with Corriere, also worried that his partner could have convinced him to get married. , without his will.

After the last hospitalization, his companion Francesca Della Valle and the doctor who treated him, Fulvio Tomaselli, had spoken about the actor’s collapse, which occurred after the months spent at RSA. His son Massimiliano therefore said he wanted to report “to protect his father and his privacy”.