Franco Nero
ActingAlso Known As
Frank Black, Frank Nero, Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero
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.
Movies
(225 total)
Django Unchained
as Amerigo Vessepi
John Wick: Chapter 2
as Julius
Cars 2
as Uncle Topolino (voice)
Die Hard 2
as General Ramon Esperanza
The Pope's Exorcist
as The Pope
The Lost City of Z
as Baron de Gondoriz
Letters to Juliet
as Lorenzo
Django
as Django
The Collini Case
as Fabrizio Collini
Force 10 from Navarone
as Lescovar
Tristana
as Horacio
Querelle
as Lieutenant Seblon
I Knew Her Well
as Italo - The garage attendant
Keoma
as Keoma
The Mercenary
as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
Enter the Ninja
as Cole
Iceman
as Ditob
The Harder They Come
as Django (archive footage)
TV Shows
(33 total)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Roberto Distasio
Django
as Reverend
The Hitchhiker
as Dr. Peter Milne
Young Catherine
as Count Vorontsov
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Arbaces
Delicious
as Joe Benelli
Emigratis
as Self
I promessi sposi
as fra Cristoforo
The Return of Sandokan
as Yogi Azim
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
as Fashion Billionaire
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
as Max Freeman
Il sangue e la rosa
as Conte Uberto Mancini
Painted Lady
as Robert Tassi
Desideria e l'anello del drago
as Dragon King
Desert of Fire
as Marcel Duvivier
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
as Augustine of Hippo
