Franco Nero
Acting
Biography
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born November 23, 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes. During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including poliziotteschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of the Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave, which began during the filming of Camelot. They were married in 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.
Born: November 23, 1941
Place of Birth: San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Known For
Filmography
as Hunter
as Don Lecco
as Self
as Valentino's Spirit
as Antonio
as The Pope
as Emanuele
as Reverend
as The Pope
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor
as Giovanni
as Himself
as Old Branko
as L'Impresario
as Paolo Spersoni
as One-eye
as Vittorio Arditi De Bellis
as Luigi Forlinghetti
as Angelo
as Rainer Praeger
as Fabrizio Collini
as Professor Ambrosin
as Ditob
as Hiram Abif
as Carlo
as Guglielmo
as il primario
as Baron de Gondoriz
as Alberto
as Julius
as Joe Benelli
as Self
as Himself
as Guido
as Self - Actor
as Marquis Polesini
as Niko
as Carmine
as Lui-même
as Frank The Black
as Self
as Paolo
as Self
as Amerigo Vessepi
as Felix the Alchemist
as Alvaro Genta
as Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen
as Uncle Topolino (voice)
as Enrico
as Narratore
as Il barbone
as Lorenzo
as Augustine of Hippo
as Augustinus (age 76)
as Enrico Puzzo
as Max Freeman
as Mario
as Ferran Moreno
as Carlos Sanchez
as Conte Uberto Mancini
as King Mathias
as Mentore
as Rene Iuvara
as Carlos Sanchez
as Michele Acucella
as Caifa
as Caifa
as Morandi
as Zachary
as Vicerè
as Giudice/barbone
as Lorenzo
as Luca
as Self
as Bakchus
as Padre
as Il barbone
as The pistolero
as Self
as Cardenal Tura
as Antonio
as Self
as Marito
as Ibnazul
as General Francini
as Antonio Castaldi
as Bishop Gellért
as Ibnazul
as Gamaliel
as Gamaliel
as Michele Giangrande
as Ralph Barolo
as Il Sindaco
as Roberto Distasio
as Caporale Nerza
as Dr. Vicente Areavaga
as Andrea
as Gianni Versace
as Robert Tassi
as Mario Domino
as Marcel Duvivier
as Ing. Ferrero
as Jesus Barro
as Nathan
as Natan
as Marcel Duvivier
as Árpád vezér
as Yogi Azim
as Adolfo Cavani
as Maggiore Ferri
as Jonathan
as Dragon King
as Dragon King
as Chris Lang
as Paul Herzog
as Enzo Lombardi
as Luca Morinari
as Franco
as Gabriele da Poppi
as Leonard De Vinci
as Fernando
as Count Vorontsov
as Aquani
as Angelo
as General Ramon Esperanza
as fra Cristoforo
as Janza
as Claudio Toscanini
as Ted Angelo
as Francis, il marinaio
as Commissario
as Django
as Johan (John) Berg
as Paul
as Falco
as Andre
as Nick
as Arbaces
as Dr. Peter Milne
as Banović Strahinja
as Lieutenant Seblon
as Nicola Fanelli
as Weiss
as John Reed
as Cole
as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
as Hakim
as Larry Stanziani
as Renzo Dominici
as Mike di Donato
as General Konrad von Der Berg
as Guido
as Jesus Christ
as Baydr Al Fay
as Lescovar
as Jean Ballard
as Walter Mancini
as Issa
as Keoma
as Armand
as Captain Asciutto
as Rudolph Valentino
as Professore Michele Belcore
as Sadry
as Onion Stark
as Giacomo Solaris
as Judge Dani
as Jason Scott
as Carlo Antonelli
as Walter Audisio
as Nicola Bellizzi
as Jason Scott
as Giacomo Matteotti
as Commissario Belli
as Johnny Ears
as Mosquito
as Ambrosio
as Django (archive footage)
as Louis
as Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky
as Vanzi
as Osiride
as Andrea Bild
as Sostituto Procuratore Traini
as Yodlaf Peterson
as Bruno
as The gypsy
as Bruno Grauber
as Horacio
as Capitano Michele Rossi
as Commissario Stefano Belli
as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
as Leonardo Ferri
as Gavino
as Captain Bellodi
as José
as Lancelot Du Lac
as Burt Sullivan
as Tom Corbett
as Lt. Jake Jacowitx
as Lt. Jake
as Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)
as Django
as Tony Lo Bello
as Charley Garvey
as Italo - The garage attendant
as Fabrizio
as Django