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Franco Nero

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1941-11-23 (83 years old)

Biography

sco 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 ing 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

all 259

Movies 231

self 29

TV Shows 28

Producer 10

Director 1

Voice 1

Narrator 1

Self

Franco Nero

Biography

Filmography

all 259

Movies 231

self 29

TV Shows 28

Producer 10

Director 1

Voice 1

Narrator 1

Titanus 1904 (2024)

Compagni d'arte (2024)

Milarepa (2024)

Giorni Felici (2023)

On Our Way (2023)

The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

The Man Who Drew God (2023)

Django (2023)

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black (2022)

The Man from Rome (2022)

Buon Lavoro (2022)

The Duel (2021)

We Are Cinema (2021)

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained (2021)

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto (2021)

Off the Rails (2021)

Two Men Alone (2021)

The Dark Dance (2020)

A Rose in Winter (2020)

Harmonie (2020)

The Match (2020)

Immortalist (2020)

Entree Des Artists (2020)

The Jester from Transylvania (2020)

Havana Kyrie (2019)

Christmas in Rome (2019)

Recon (2019)

The Killers (2019)

The Collini Case (2019)

Ed è subito sera (2019)

Red Land (2018)

Iceman (2017)

The Broken Key (2017)

Agony (2017)

Death of the Sheik (2017)

The Neighborhood (2017)

Il crimine non va in pensione (2017)

Agony (L'esecutore) (2017)

The Lost City of Z (2017)

The Time of Their Lives (2017)

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

Delicious (2016)

Il ragazzo della Giudecca (2016)

Emigratis (2016)

Road to Ruin (2016)

Along the River (2016)

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man (2015)

Earth (2015)

Road to Capri (2015)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

Figli di Maam (2014)

Love Island (2014)

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema (2014)

Killer Mermaid (2014)

The Mystery of Dante (2014)

Obsessive Rythms (2014)

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… (2014)

Handy (2013)

Istintobrass (2013)

Memories They Told Me (2013)

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti (2013)

I Tarantiniani (2013)

Django Unchained (2012)

The Last Alchemist (2012)

Crazy Dog (2012)

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012)

New Order (2012)

Cars 2 (2011)

Father (2011)