
Franco Nero
Born: 1941-11-23
Place of Birth: San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.
Known For

Django Unchained

John Wick: Chapter 2

Cars 2

Die Hard 2

The Pope's Exorcist

Letters to Juliet

Recon

David

The Lost City of Z

Camelot

The Repenter

Titanus 1904

The Girl

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

Grog

Kamikaze '89

Querelle

Saint Paul

Havana Kyrie

Bathory: Countess of Blood

Rasputin

Giorni felici

Post Coitum

Submission

The Salamander

The Final Inquiry

Tristana

The Pirate

Bella Mafia

Istintobrass

Love Island

Mimi

Io e il re

Redneck

The Neighborhood

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Agony

Django

Ultimo stadio

Top Line

Cry, Onion!

The Conquest

Dropout

The Crusaders

Buon Lavoro

Texas, Adios

Bastardi

Killer Mermaid

The Match

Sahara Cross

Fumata blanca

Bad Inclination

Blood Brothers

The Bible: In the Beginning...

I Tarantiniani

Two Families

Victory March

Sweet Country

The Monk

Obsessive Rhythms

Christmas in Rome

Hitch Hike

Crazy Dog

Vacation

Earth

Force 10 from Navarone

Forever Blues

The Medal

In the Hand of Dante

The Harder They Come

Winds of Passion

From Time to Time

I Knew Her Well

The Duel

The Collini Case

Death Rite

New Order

Keoma

The Mercenary

Breath of Life

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Li chiamarono... briganti!

Compañeros

Red Land

Il tesoro di Damasco

The Dark Dance

The Battle of Neretva

Sacra Corona

The Dragon Ring

Iceman

21 Hours at Munich

The Visitor

The Fifth Cord

Off the Rails

Sardinia Kidnapped

Confessions of a Police Captain

A Rose in Winter

The Man from Rome

White Fang

The Shark Hunter

Enter the Ninja

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

The Innocent Sleep

Talk of Angels

Massacre Time

Challenge to White Fang

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

High Crime

Django Strikes Again

On Our Way

Compagni d'arte

The Day of the Owl

The Falcon

Run for Your Life

The Man Who Drew God

Django Lives!

How to Kill a Judge

The Assassination of Matteotti

The Spaghetti West

Jonathan of the Bears

A Quiet Place in the Country

Der Fall Lucona

Mein Herz in Chile

Father

Das Babylon Komplott

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

Gold

Handy

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

Summer Solstice

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

The Time of Their Lives

Man, Pride and Vengeance

La rabbia

The Last Four Days

Devil's Crude

We Are Cinema

Street Law

The Wild, Wild Planet

The Holy Family

The Broken Key

The Versace Murder

Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire

Brothers and Sisters

Detective Belli

Killing Is My Business, Honey

The Jester from Transylvania

Test of Memory

The Tramplers

Guardians of the Clouds

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

Pope Joan

The Man with Bogart's Face

Touch and Die

Desert of Fire

Amore e libertà - Masaniello

Amelia Lópes O'Neill

The Flower in His Mouth

Magdalene

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man

The Hired Killer

The Third Eye

Road to Capri

Young Toscanini

Hans

Smiling Maniacs

The Last Alchemist

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

The Run

Day of the Cobra

Azzurro profondo

Mirka

Race to Danger

The Fifth Day of Peace

War of the Planets

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

André schafft sie alle

Memories They Told Me

Rack Up

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

The Legend of Valentino

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

Uninvited

Márió, a varázsló

A Night at the Grand Hotel

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

La ragion pura

Chimera

Le rose di Danzica

Immortalist

The Blue-Eyed Bandit

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Italian Engagement

La Celestina P… R…

Harmonie

Two Men Alone

Il crimine non va in pensione

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show

Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle

Ed è subito sera

Mineurs

Scorched Skin

Prigioniero di un segreto

The Last Gunfighter
