Franco Nero

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1941-11-23 (82 years old)

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

Also Known As Frank Black, Frank Nero, Франко Неро, Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero

Franco Nero

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franco Nero licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Oggi ho vinto anch'io

as Saverio Pallucca

Django Lives!

as Django

2024
Titanus 1904

as Self

2023
2023
2023
Django

as Reverend

2022
The Man from Rome

as The Pope

2021
We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Off the Rails

as Giovanni

2021
Two Men Alone

as Himself

2020
The Dark Dance

as L'Impresario

2020
A Rose in Winter

as Rainer Praeger

2020
The Match

as Old Branko

2020
Immortalist

as Paolo Spersoni

2020
Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandfather

2019
Havana Kyrie

as Vittorio Arditi De Bellis

2019
Christmas in Rome

as Luigi Forlinghetti

2019
Recon

as Angelo

2019
The Collini Case

as Fabrizio Collini

2018
Red Land

as Professor Ambrosin

2017
Iceman

as Ditob

2017
The Broken Key

as Hiram Abif

2017
Agony

as Carlo

2017
The Neighborhood

as Guglielmo

2017
The Lost City of Z

as Baron de Gondoriz

2017
2016
Road to Ruin

as Self

2016
Along the River

as Frank De Ville

2016
Delicious

as Joe Benelli

2016
Emigratis

as Self

2015
2015
Road to Capri

as Guido

2014
Love Island

as Marquis Polesini

2014
2014
Obsessive Rythms

as Carmine

2013
Handy

as Frank The Black

2013
Istintobrass

as Self

2013
2012
Django Unchained

as Amerigo Vessepi

2012
The Last Alchemist

as Felix the Alchemist

2012
Crazy Dog

as Alvaro Genta

2012
New Order

as Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen

2011
Cars 2

as Uncle Topolino (voice)

2011
Father

as Enrico

2010
Rasputin

as Narratore

2010
2010
2009
2008
2008
2008
Bastardi

as Rene Iuvara

2008
La rabbia

as Mentore

2008
Mein Herz in Chile

as Carlos Sanchez

2008
Il sangue e la rosa

as Conte Uberto Mancini

2007
Mineurs

as Michele Acucella

2007
2007
Two Families

as Morandi

2006
The Holy Family

as Zachary

2006
Hans

as Giudice/barbone

2005
Summer Solstice

as Lorenzo

2005
2005
2004
Post Coitum

as Bakchus

2003
Bad Inclination

as Il barbone

2003
The Uncrowned Heart

as Bear's Trainer

2002
The Last Gunfighter

as The pistolero

2002
Fumata blanca

as Cardenal Tura

2002
Ultimo stadio

as Antonio

2002
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

as Fashion Billionaire

2001
La ragion pura

as Marito

2001
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

as Gen. Francini

2001
Sacra Corona

as Bishop Gellért

2001
The Crusaders

as Ibnazul

2001
La voce del sangue

as Antonio Castaldi

2000
Saint Paul

as Gamaliel

2000
Uninvited

as Ralph Barolo

2000
Mirka

as Il Sindaco

1999
Li chiamarono... briganti!

as Caporale Nerza

1999
1998
Talk of Angels

as Dr. Vicente Areavaga

1998
1998
The Versace Murder

as Gianni Versace

1997
Bella Mafia

as Mario Domino

1997
The Medal

as Ing. Ferrero

1997
Rack Up

as Jesus Barro

1997
David

as Natan

1997
Desert of Fire

as Marcel Duvivier

1997
Painted Lady

as Robert Tassi

1997
Desert of Fire

as Marcel Duvivier

1996
The Conquest

as Árpád vezér

1996
The Innocent Sleep

as Adolfo Cavani

1996
1995
Io e il re

as Maggiore Ferri

1995
1995
1994
The Dragon Ring

as Dragon King

1993
Das Babylon Komplott

as Chris Lang

1993
Test of Memory

as Paul Herzog

1993
Der Fall Lucona

as Enzo Lombardi

1993
Azzurro profondo

as Luca Morinari

1992
1992
Gold

as Gabriele da Poppi

1992
1991
Touch and Die

as Aquani

1991
Young Catherine

as Count Vorontsov

1990
Breath of Life

as Angelo

1990
Die Hard 2

as General Ramon Esperanza

1989
I promessi sposi

as fra Cristoforo

1989
Blaues Blut

as Sandro Castellani

1988
Magdalene

as Janza

1988
Young Toscanini

as Claudio Toscanini

1988
Top Line

as Ted Angelo

1988
Race to Danger

as Francis, il marinaio

1988
Run for Your Life

as Commissario

1987
1987
The Girl

as Johan (John) Berg

1987
1985
The Repenter

as Falco

1985
1984
1983
The Falcon

as Banović Strahinja

1983
The Hitchhiker

as Dr. Peter Milne

1982
Querelle

as Lieutenant Seblon

1982
Grog

as Nicola Fanelli

1982
Kamikaze 1989

as Weiss

1982
Na sowas!

as Self

1981
1981
The Salamander

as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci

1980
Day of the Cobra

as Larry Stanziani

1980
The Blue-Eyed Bandit

as Renzo Dominici

1979
The Shark Hunter

as Mike di Donato

1979
Le rose di Danzica

as General Konrad von Der Berg

1979
Mimi

as Guido

1979
The Visitor

as Jesus Christ

1978
The Pirate

as Baydr Al Fay

1978
1977
Sahara Cross

as Jean Ballard

1977
Hitch Hike

as Walter Mancini

1976
1976
Keoma

as Keoma

1976
Submission

as Armand

1976
Victory March

as Captain Asciutto

1975
The Legend of Valentino

as Rudolph Valentino

1975
The Flower in His Mouth

as Professore Michele Belcore

1975
Death Rite

as Sadry

1975
Cry, Onion!

as Onion Stark

1975
How to Kill a Judge

as Giacomo Solaris

1975
Smiling Maniacs

as Judge Dani

1974
1974
Street Law

as Carlo Antonelli

1974
The Last Four Days

as Walter Audisio

1974
Blood Brothers

as Nicola Bellizzi

1974
1973
White Fang

as Jason Scott

1973
The Assassination of Matteotti

as Giacomo Matteotti

1973
High Crime

as Commissario Belli

1973
1973
Redneck

as Mosquito

1972
The Monk

as Ambrosio

1972
The Harder They Come

as Django (archive footage)

1972
Pope Joan

as Louis

1971
Don't Turn the Other Cheek

as Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky

1971
Vacation

as Osiride

1971
The Fifth Cord

as Andrea Bild

1971
Confessions of a Police Captain

as Sostituto Procuratore Traini

1970
Compañeros

as Yodlaf Peterson

1970
Dropout

as Bruno

1970
1970
The 5th Day of Peace

as Bruno Grauber

1970
Tristana

as Horacio

1969
The Battle of Neretva

as Capitani Michele Rossi

1969
Detective Belli

as Commissario Stefano Belli

1968
The Mercenary

as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish

1968
1968
1968
The Day of the Owl

as Captain Bellodi

1967
Camelot

as Lancelot Du Lac

1966
Texas, Adios

as Burt Sullivan

1966
Massacre Time

as Tom Corbett

1966
War of the Planets

as Lt. Jake Jacowitx

1966
1966
The Third Eye

as Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)

1966
Django

as Django

1966
The Hired Killer

as Tony Lo Bello

1965
The Tramplers

as Charley Garvey

1965
I Knew Her Well

as Italo - The garage attendant

1965

Producer

The Estate

as Executive Producer

2014
The Mystery of Dante

as Executive Producer

2008
La rabbia

as Executive Producer

2008
La rabbia

as Producer

2005
Forever Blues

as Producer

2000
Uninvited

as Producer

1995
1993
Test of Memory

as Producer

1979
The Shark Hunter

as Co-Producer

1971
Vacation

as Producer

1970
Dropout

as Co-Producer

Director

2023
2005
Forever Blues

as Director

Writer

2005
Forever Blues

as Writer

Camera

1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Still Photographer

Crew

2012