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Name
Franco Nero

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1941-11-23 (85 years old)

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

Movies

Tv Shows

1991 Touch and Die as Aquani
1990 Die Hard 2 as General Ramon Esperanza
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... as Abel
2000 Saint Paul as Gamaliel
1997 David as Natan
1966 Django as Django
1974 Blood Brothers as Nicola Bellizzi
2006 Amore e libertà - Masaniello as Vicerè
2021 Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained as Self - Actor
1966 Texas, Adios as Burt Sullivan
1976 Keoma as Keoma
Soon La battaglia di Gorthene
1969 The Battle of Neretva as Capitano Michele Rossi
1966 Massacre Time as Tom Corbett
1970 Tristana as Horacio
1966 The Wild, Wild Planet as Lt. Jake
1980 The Man with Bogart's Face as Hakim
1971 The Fifth Cord as Andrea Bild
1995 Jonathan of the Bears as Jonathan
1976 Victory March as Captain Asciutto
1970 Compañeros as Yodlaf Peterson
2008 Bathory: Countess of Blood as King Mathias
1974 The Last Four Days as Walter Audisio
2009 Killing Is My Business, Honey as Enrico Puzzo
1971 The Case Is Closed, Forget It as Vanzi
1980 Day of the Cobra as Larry Stanziani
1973 The Assassination of Matteotti as Giacomo Matteotti
1992 Brothers and Sisters as Franco
2005 Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show as Judge
1981 Enter the Ninja as Cole
1969 Detective Belli as Commissario Stefano Belli
2011 Cars 2 as Uncle Topolino (voice)
1968 The Mercenary as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
1978 Force 10 from Navarone as Lescovar
2010 Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine as Augustinus (age 76)
2012 Django Unchained as Amerigo Vessepi
1996 The Conquest as Árpád vezér
1967 Camelot as Lancelot Du Lac
2016 Along the River as Frank De Ville
1979 Mimi as Guido
1970 The Virgin and the Gypsy as The gypsy
2021 Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto as Self
2010 Rasputin as Narratore
1976 21 Hours at Munich as Issa
1970 The Fifth Day of Peace as Bruno Grauber
1973 Redneck as Mosquito
1974 Street Law as Carlo Antonelli
1977 Hitch Hike as Walter Mancini
1985 Devil's Crude as Nick
1998 Talk of Angels as Dr. Vicente Areavaga
1968 A Quiet Place in the Country as Leonardo Ferri
1975 Cry, Onion! as Onion Stark
1999 Li chiamarono... briganti! as Caporale Nerza
1973 White Fang as Jason Scott
1987 Django Strikes Again as Django
1968 The Day of the Owl as Captain Bellodi
2002 Fumata blanca as Cardenal Tura
1979 The Shark Hunter as Mike di Donato
1973 High Crime as Commissario Belli
1966 War of the Planets as Lt. Jake Jacowitx
1975 The Flower in His Mouth as Professore Michele Belcore
1994 The Dragon Ring as Dragon King
1974 Challenge to White Fang as Jason Scott
1972 The Harder They Come as Django (archive footage)
2012 Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s as Self
1977 Sahara Cross as Jean Ballard
1967 Man, Pride and Vengeance as José
1987 The Girl as Johan (John) Berg
2008 Mein Herz in Chile as Carlos Sanchez
2006 Hans as Giudice/barbone
2020 Harmonie
1992 Amelia Lópes O'Neill as Fernando
1973 Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears as Johnny Ears
1988 Top Line as Ted Angelo
2008 La rabbia as Mentore
1981 The Salamander as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
1971 Confessions of a Police Captain as Sostituto Procuratore Traini
1965 The Tramplers as Charley Garvey
1975 How to Kill a Judge as Giacomo Solaris
1976 Submission as Armand
1971 Don't Turn the Other Cheek as Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky
1971 Vacation as Osiride
1992 Gold as Gabriele da Poppi
2001 La ragion pura as Marito
1982 Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames as John Reed
1980 The Blue-Eyed Bandit as Renzo Dominici
1982 Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World as John Reed
2012 New Order as Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works as Self
2013 Memories They Told Me as Paolo
2004 Post Coitum as Bakchus
1988 Race to Danger as Francis, il marinaio
2012 Crazy Dog as Alvaro Genta
2008 Márió, a varázsló as Mario
2010 Prigioniero di un segreto as Il barbone
1988 Young Toscanini as Claudio Toscanini
2014 Obsessive Rhythms as Carmine
1966 The Hired Killer as Tony Lo Bello
1975 Death Rite as Sadry
2014 Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres… as Lui-même
1983 The Falcon as Banović Strahinja
1989 A Double Victory as Saverio Pallucca
2012 The Last Alchemist as Felix the Alchemist
2014 Killer Mermaid as Niko
2023 Giorni felici as Antonio
2001 Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 as General Francini
1972 The Monk as Ambrosio
2026 In the Hand of Dante as Don Lecco (86)
1982 Grog as Nicola Fanelli
1975 Smiling Maniacs as Judge Dani
2023 On Our Way
2023 The Pope's Exorcist as The Pope
1968 Sardinia Kidnapped as Gavino
2002 Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell as Giuseppe Mantaldo
1986 Un altare per la madre as -
2005 Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
1993 Das Babylon Komplott as Chris Lang
1997 Desert of Fire as Marcel Duvivier
2014 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Self - Actor
1998 Il tesoro di Damasco as Andrea
2001 Sacra Corona as Bishop Gellért
2022 The Man from Rome as The Pope
1979 The Visitor as Jesus Christ
2002 The Last Gunfighter as The pistolero
2001 In the Company of Compañeros as Self
2000 Mirka as Il Sindaco
2008 A Night at the Grand Hotel as Ferran Moreno
1995 Io e il re as Maggiore Ferri
1993 Test of Memory as Paul Herzog
2014 Figli di Maam
2021 The Duel
1975 The Legend of Valentino as Rudolph Valentino
2013 The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti as Self
2016 Road to Ruin as Self
2015 Earth
2007 Mineurs as Michele Acucella
2021 We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1988 Run for Your Life as Commissario
2013 I Tarantiniani as Self
2020 Entree Des Artists as Henry's Grandfather
1984 Die Försterbuben as Böhme
1985 André schafft sie alle as Andre
2013 Handy as Frank The Black
1997 Rack Up as Jesus Barro
1965 I Knew Her Well as Italo - The garage attendant
Soon The Temptation Of Gracie
2006 Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern as Self
1979 Le rose di Danzica as General Konrad von Der Berg
Soon Django Lives! as Django
1996 The Innocent Sleep as Adolfo Cavani
2014 Love Island as Marquis Polesini
2005 Forever Blues as Luca
1972 Pope Joan as Louis
2005 Summer Solstice as Lorenzo
2025 The Estate
1993 Der Fall Lucona as Enzo Lombardi
2001 The Crusaders as Ibnazul
1965 La Celestina P… R… as Fabrizio
1990 Breath of Life as Angelo
2009 Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2017 John Wick: Chapter 2 as Julius
2017 The Time of Their Lives as Alberto
2017 The Lost City of Z as Baron de Gondoriz
2000 Uninvited as Ralph Barolo
1970 Dropout as Bruno
2017 The Neighborhood as Guglielmo
2003 Bad Inclination as Il barbone
1985 The Repenter as Falco
2017 The Broken Key as Hiram Abif
2007 The Final Inquiry as Caifa
1988 Magdalene as Janza
2017 Agony as Carlo
2017 Iceman as Ditob
1998 The Versace Murder as Gianni Versace
1982 Kamikaze '89 as Weiss
2003 The Uncrowned Heart as Bear's Trainer
2005 The Spaghetti West as Self
2017 Il crimine non va in pensione as il primario
2019 A Rose in Winter as Rainer Praeger
2018 Red Land as Professor Ambrosin
2006 The Holy Family as Zachary
2004 Guardians of the Clouds as Padre
2019 The Collini Case as Fabrizio Collini
2015 Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man as Himself
1987 Sweet Country as Paul
2002 Ultimo stadio as Antonio
1964 Italian Engagement
2019 Ed è subito sera
2008 Bastardi as René Iuvara
2006 Giornata Nera
1963 Un delitto
2019 Christmas in Rome as Luigi Forlinghetti
1997 The Medal as Ing. Ferrero
1966 The Third Eye as Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)
2015 Road to Capri as Guido
1982 Querelle as Lieutenant Seblon
2010 Letters to Juliet as Lorenzo
2013 Istintobrass as Self
2021 Off the Rails as Giovanni
1993 Azzurro profondo as Luca Morinari
2020 The Dark Dance as L'Impresario
2019 Recon as Angelo
2019 Havana Kyrie as Vittorio Arditi De Bellis
2014 Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema as Self
2020 Immortalist as Paolo Spersoni
1997 Bella Mafia as Mario Domino
2023 The Man Who Drew God as Emanuele
2023 Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black as Valentino's Spirit
2021 The Match as Old Branko
2024 The Jester from Transylvania as One-eye
2021 Two Men Alone as Himself
2011 Father as Enrico
2007 Two Families as Morandi
2022 Buon Lavoro
2024 Compagni d'arte
2024 Titanus 1904 as Self
2001 Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle as Self
1962 Scorched Skin
2000 Winds of Passion as Michele Giangrande
2026 Roma elastica as The Old Filmmaker
1992 From Time to Time as Leonard De Vinci
2001 Chimera as Imprenditore
2026 Il Vecchio Terribile as Oste
1982 Sergey Bondarchuk as Self
Soon El Sobrino
2026 Aurora as Bertoldo

1995 Viva el lunes ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1983 The Hitchhiker ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Peter Milne
2016 Delicious ( 4 episodes ) as Joe Benelli
2008 Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons ( 1 episode ) as Max Freeman
2008 Il sangue e la rosa ( 4 episodes ) as Conte Uberto Mancini
2003 Der Fürst und das Mädchen ( 0 episode )
1997 Painted Lady ( 2 episodes ) as Robert Tassi
2002 Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften ( 1 episode ) as Fashion Billionaire
1989 Blaues Blut ( 1 episode ) as Sandro Castellani
2016 Emigratis ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1997 Desert of Fire ( 3 episodes ) as Marcel Duvivier
1984 The Last Days of Pompeii ( 3 episodes ) as Arbaces
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Roberto Distasio
2002 Through the Night with... ( 1 episode ) as Self
1995 Desideria e l'anello del drago ( 2 episodes ) as Dragon King
1996 The Return of Sandokan ( 4 episodes ) as Yogi Azim
1989 I promessi sposi ( 5 episodes ) as fra Cristoforo
2005 Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love ( 2 episodes )
1991 Young Catherine ( 2 episodes ) as Count Vorontsov
1982 Na sowas! ( 1 episode ) as Self
2007 L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII ( 2 episodes ) as Caifa
2023 Django ( 2 episodes ) as Reverend
2010 Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire ( 2 episodes ) as Augustine of Hippo
2001 La voce del sangue ( 2 episodes ) as Antonio Castaldi
1974 Der große Preis ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 David ( 2 episodes ) as Nathan
1997 Davide ( 2 episodes ) as Nathan
2000 Saint Paul ( 2 episodes ) as Gamaliel
2008 Mein Herz in Chile ( 2 episodes ) as Carlos Sanchez
2001 The Crusaders ( 2 episodes ) as Ibnazul
1981 Le rose di Danzica ( 3 episodes ) as Il generale Konrad Von Den Berg
1977 The Pirate ( 2 episodes ) as Baydr Al Fay

Name
Franco Nero

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1941-11-23 (85 years old)

Place of Birth
San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

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Name Franco Nero

Known For Acting

Birthday 1941-11-23 (85 years old)

Place of Birth San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

Known For

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6.389

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Name
Franco Nero

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1941-11-23 (85 years old)

Place of Birth
San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy