Franco Nero
Born on November 23rd, 1941
San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Biography Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 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.
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Filmography Compagni d'arte
2024
Character TBA
Details On Our Way
2023
Character TBA
Details The Pope's Exorcist
2023
The Pope
Details The Man Who Drew God
2023
Emanuele
Details Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
2022
Spirit
Details The Man from Rome
2022
The Pope
Details Buon Lavoro
2022
Character TBA
Details We Are Cinema
2021
Self (archive footage)
Details Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
Self - Actor
Details Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
2021
Himself
Details The Dark Dance
2020
L'Impresario
Details A Rose in Winter
2020
Rainer Praeger
Details Immortalist
2020
Paolo Spersoni
Details Entree Des Artists
2020
Henry's Grandfather
Details The Jester from Transylvania
2020
One-eye
Details Havana Kyrie
2019
Vittorio Arditi De Bellis
Details Christmas in Rome
2019
Luigi Forlinghetti
Details The Collini Case
2019
Fabrizio Collini
Details Ed è subito sera
2019
Character TBA
Details Red Land
2018
Professor Ambrosin
Details The Broken Key
2017
Hiram Abif
Details The Neighborhood
2017
Guglielmo
Details Il crimine non va in pensione
2017
il primario
Details Agony (L'esecutore)
2017
Character TBA
Details The Lost City of Z
2017
Baron de Gondoriz
Details The Time of Their Lives
2017
Alberto
Details John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Julius
Details Along the River
2016
Frank De Ville
Details Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
2015
Himself
Details Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Self - Actor
Details Figli di Maam
2014
Character TBA
Details Love Island
2014
Marquis Polesini
Details Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
2014
Self
Details Obsessive Rythms
2014
Carmine
Details Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014
Lui-même
Details Memories They Told Me
2013
Paolo
Details The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013
Self
Details Django Unchained
2012
Amerigo Vessepi
Details The Last Alchemist
2012
Felix the Alchemist
Details Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Self
Details New Order
2012
Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen
Details Cars 2
2011
Uncle Topolino (voice)
Details Prigioniero di un segreto
2010
Il barbone
Details Letters to Juliet
2010
Lorenzo
Details Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010
Augustinus (age 76)
Details Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Character TBA
Details Killing Is My Business, Honey
2009
Enrico Puzzo
Details A Night at the Grand Hotel
2008
Ferran Moreno
Details Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008
King Mathias
Details Mein Herz in Chile
2008
Carlos Sanchez
Details Mineurs
2007
Michele Acucella
Details Amore e libertà - Masaniello
2006
Character TBA
Details Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
Self
Details Giornata Nera
2006
Character TBA
Details Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
Self
Details Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show
2005
Judge
Details Guardiani delle nuvole
2004
Padre
Details Bad Inclination
2003
Il barbone
Details The Uncrowned Heart
2003
Bear's Trainer
Details The Last Gunfighter
2002
The pistolero
Details Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell
2002
Giuseppe Mantaldo
Details Fumata blanca
2002
Cardenal Tura
Details In the Company of Compañeros
2001
Self
Details Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
Gen. Francini
Details Sacra Corona
2001
Bishop Gellért
Details Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle
2001
Self
Details Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999
Caporale Nerza
Details Talk of Angels
1998
Dr. Vicente Areavaga
Details Il tesoro di Damasco
1998
Andrea
Details The Versace Murder
1998
Gianni Versace
Details Bella Mafia
1997
Mario Domino
Details Desert of Fire
1997
Marcel Duvivier
Details The Conquest
1996
Árpád vezér
Details The Innocent Sleep
1996
Adolfo Cavani
Details Io e il re
1995
Maggiore Ferri
Details Jonathan of the Bears
1995
Jonathan
Details The Dragon Ring
1994
Dragon King
Details Das Babylon Komplott
1993
Chris Lang
Details Test of Memory
1993
Paul Herzog
Details Der Fall Lucona
1993
Enzo Lombardi
Details Azzurro profondo
1993
Luca Morinari
Details Brothers and Sisters
1992
Franco
Details Amelia Lópes O'Neill
1992
Fernando
Details Die Hard 2
1990
General Ramon Esperanza
Details Young Toscanini
1988
Claudio Toscanini
Details Race to Danger
1988
Francis, il marinaio
Details Run for Your Life
1988
Commissario
Details Django Strikes Again
1987
Django
Details The Girl
1987
Johan (John) Berg
Details Un altare per la madre
1986
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Details André schafft sie alle
1985
Andre
Details The Falcon
1983
Banović Strahinja
Details Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982
John Reed
Details Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire
1982
John Reed
Details Querelle
1982
Lieutenant Seblon
Details Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982
Self
Details The Salamander
1981
Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
Details The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
Hakim
Details Day of the Cobra
1980
Larry Stanziani
Details The Blue-Eyed Bandit
1980
Renzo Dominici
Details The Shark Hunter
1979
Mike di Donato
Details Le rose di Danzica
1979
General Konrad von Der Berg
Details The Visitor
1979
Jesus Christ
Details Force 10 from Navarone
1978
Lescovar
Details Sahara Cross
1977
Jean Ballard
Details Hitch Hike
1977
Walter Mancini
Details Victory March
1976
Captain Asciutto
Details The Legend of Valentino
1975
Rudolph Valentino
Details The Flower in His Mouth
1975
Professore Michele Belcore
Details How to Kill a Judge
1975
Giacomo Solaris
Details Smiling Maniacs
1975
Judge Dani
Details Challenge to White Fang
1974
Jason Scott
Details Street Law
1974
Carlo Antonelli
Details The Last Four Days
1974
Walter Audisio
Details Blood Brothers
1974
Nicola Bellizzi
Details The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
Giacomo Matteotti
Details High Crime
1973
Commissario Belli
Details Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
1973
Johnny Ears
Details The Harder They Come
1972
Django (archive footage)
Details Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971
Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky
Details The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971
Vanzi
Details The Fifth Cord
1971
Andrea Bild
Details Confessions of a Police Captain
1971
Sostituto Procuratore Traini
Details Compañeros
1970
Yodlaf Peterson
Details The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970
The gypsy
Details The 5th Day of Peace
1970
Bruno Grauber
Details The Battle of Neretva
1969
Capitani Michele Rossi
Details Detective Belli
1969
Commissario Stefano Belli
Details The Mercenary
1968
Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
Details A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
Leonardo Ferri
Details Sardinia Kidnapped
1968
Gavino
Details The Day of the Owl
1968
Captain Bellodi
Details Man, Pride and Vengeance
1967
José
Details The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
Abel
Details Texas, Adios
1966
Burt Sullivan
Details Massacre Time
1966
Tom Corbett
Details War of the Planets
1966
Lt. Jake Jacowitx
Details The Wild, Wild Planet
1966
Lt. Jake
Details The Third Eye
1966
Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)
Details The Hired Killer
1966
Tony Lo Bello
Details The Tramplers
1965
Charley Garvey
Details I Knew Her Well
1965
Italo - The garage attendant
Details La Celestina P… R…
1965
Fabrizio
Details Italian Engagement
1964
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Details Un delitto
1963
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