Franco Nero

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: Acting

Born: San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 1941-11-23

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	Django	Django	72
2	1966	The Wild, Wild Planet	Lt. Jake	43
3	1966	Massacre Time	Tom Corbett	62
4	1966	Texas, Adios	Burt Sullivan	59
5	1966	The Bible: In the Beginning...	Abel	73
6	1967	Camelot	Lancelot Du Lac	62
7	1968	A Quiet Place in the Country	Leonardo Ferri	64
8	1968	The Mercenary	Sergei Kowalski, The Polish	69
9	1969	Detective Belli	Commissario Stefano Belli	56
10	1969	The Battle of Neretva	Capitani Michele Rossi	67
11	1970	Tristana	Horacio	72
12	1970	The 5th Day of Peace	Bruno Grauber	53
13	1970	The Virgin and the Gypsy	The gypsy	22
14	1970	Compañeros	Yodlaf Peterson	65
15	1971	The Fifth Cord	Andrea Bild	66
16	1971	The Case Is Closed, Forget It	Vanzi	68
17	1973	Redneck	Mosquito	43
18	1973	The Assassination of Matteotti	Giacomo Matteotti	66
19	1973	White Fang	Jason Scott	64
20	1974	Blood Brothers	Nicola Bellizzi	64
21	1974	The Last Four Days	Walter Audisio	63
22	1974	Street Law	Carlo Antonelli	66
23	1975	Cry, Onion!	Onion Stark	50
24	1976	Victory March	Captain Asciutto	62
25	1976	Keoma	Keoma	69
26	1976	21 Hours at Munich	Issa	62
27	1977	Hitch Hike	Walter Mancini	70
28	1978	Force 10 from Navarone	Lescovar	62
29	1979	Mimi	Guido	60
30	1980	Day of the Cobra	Larry Stanziani	62
31	1980	The Man with Bogart's Face	Hakim	64
32	1981	Enter the Ninja	Cole	54
33	1985	Devil's Crude	Nick	45
34	1987	Django Strikes Again	Django	51
35	1990	Die Hard 2	General Ramon Esperanza	70
36	1991	Touch and Die	Aquani	33
37	1992	Brothers and Sisters	Franco	43
38	1995	Jonathan of the Bears	Jonathan	58
39	1996	The Conquest	Árpád vezér	48
40	1997	David	Natan	66
41	1998	Talk of Angels	Dr. Vicente Areavaga	59
42	1999	Li chiamarono... briganti!	Caporale Nerza	58
43	2000	Saint Paul	Gamaliel	68
44	2005	Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show	Judge	78
45	2006	Amore e libertà - Masaniello		65
46	2008	Bathory: Countess of Blood	King Mathias	56
47	2010	Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire	Augustinus (age 76)	50
48	2010	Rasputin	Narratore	49
49	2012	Django Unchained	Amerigo Vessepi	82
50	2016	Along the River	Frank De Ville	0
51	2021	Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained	Self - Actor	70
52		La battaglia di Gorthene		0
53	1965	The Tramplers	Charley Garvey	60
54	1966	The Hired Killer	Tony Lo Bello	55
55	1966	War of the Planets	Lt. Jake Jacowitx	49
56	1967	Man, Pride and Vengeance	José	57
57	1968	The Day of the Owl	Captain Bellodi	70
58	1971	Confessions of a Police Captain	Sostituto Procuratore Traini	68
59	1971	Vacation	Osiride	48
60	1971	Don't Turn the Other Cheek	Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky	53
61	1972	The Harder They Come	Django (archive footage)	65
62	1972	The Monk	Ambrosio	59
63	1973	Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears	Johnny Ears	52
64	1973	High Crime	Commissario Belli	63
65	1974	Challenge to White Fang	Jason Scott	62
66	1975	Smiling Maniacs	Judge Dani	0
67	1975	How to Kill a Judge	Giacomo Solaris	70
68	1975	Death Rite	Sadry	42
69	1975	The Flower in His Mouth	Professore Michele Belcore	65
70	1976	Submission	Armand	65
71	1977	Sahara Cross	Jean Ballard	20
72	1979	The Shark Hunter	Mike di Donato	41
73	1980	The Blue-Eyed Bandit	Renzo Dominici	53
74	1981	The Salamander	Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci	57
75	1982	Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works	Self	57
76	1982	Grog	Nicola Fanelli	0
77	1982	Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire	John Reed	39
78	1982	Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World	John Reed	42
79	1983	The Falcon	Banović Strahinja	50
80	1987	The Girl	Johan (John) Berg	45
81	1988	Race to Danger	Francis, il marinaio	40
82	1988	Top Line	Ted Angelo	39
83	1988	Young Toscanini	Claudio Toscanini	59
84	1992	Amelia Lópes O'Neill	Fernando	45
85	1992	Gold	Gabriele da Poppi	45
86	1994	The Dragon Ring	Dragon King	69
87	2001	Megiddo: The Omega Code 2	Gen. Francini	47
88	2001	La ragion pura	Marito	20
89	2002	Fumata blanca	Cardenal Tura	0
90	2004	Post Coitum	Bakchus	42
91	2006	Hans	Giudice/barbone	50
92	2008	Mein Herz in Chile	Carlos Sanchez	0
93	2008	La rabbia	Mentore	46
94	2008	Márió, a varázsló	Mario	40
95	2009	Killing Is My Business, Honey	Enrico Puzzo	66
96	2010	Prigioniero di un segreto	Il barbone	0
97	2011	Cars 2	Uncle Topolino (voice)	61
98	2012	New Order	Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen	31
99	2012	Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s	Self	77
100	2012	Crazy Dog	Alvaro Genta	70
101	2012	The Last Alchemist	Felix the Alchemist	55
102	2013	Memories They Told Me	Paolo	60
103	2014	Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…	Lui-même	0
104	2014	Obsessive Rythms	Carmine	53
105	2020	Harmonie		0
106	2021	Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto	Himself	0
107		Oggi ho vinto anch'io	Saverio Pallucca	0
108	2014	Killer Mermaid	Niko	42
109	2023	Giorni Felici		0
110		In the Hand of Dante		10
111	1965	La Celestina P… R…	Fabrizio	0
112	1965	I Knew Her Well	Italo - The garage attendant	74
113	1968	Sardinia Kidnapped	Gavino	62
114	1972	Pope Joan	Louis	59
115	1975	The Legend of Valentino	Rudolph Valentino	55
116	1978	The Pirate	Baydr Al Fay	55
117	1979	The Visitor	Jesus Christ	52
118	1979	Le rose di Danzica	General Konrad von Der Berg	0
119	1984	Die Försterbuben	Böhme	50
120	1985	André schafft sie alle	Andre	0
121	1986	Un altare per la madre	-	0
122	1988	Run for Your Life	Commissario	52
123	1990	Breath of Life	Angelo	0
124	1993	Der Fall Lucona	Enzo Lombardi	50
125	1993	Test of Memory	Paul Herzog	33
126	1993	Das Babylon Komplott	Chris Lang	0
127	1995	Io e il re	Maggiore Ferri	0
128	1996	The Innocent Sleep	Adolfo Cavani	43
129	1997	Desert of Fire	Marcel Duvivier	93
130	1997	Rack Up	Jesus Barro	0
131	1998	Il tesoro di Damasco	Andrea	0
132	2000	Mirka	Il Sindaco	0
133	2001	The Crusaders	Ibnazul	41
134	2001	Sacra Corona	Bishop Gellért	44
135	2001	In the Company of Compañeros	Self	0
136	2002	Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell	Giuseppe Mantaldo	0
137	2002	The Last Gunfighter	The pistolero	53
138	2005	Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker	Self	67
139	2005	Forever Blues	Luca	0
140	2005	Summer Solstice	Lorenzo	0
141	2006	Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern	Self	66
142	2007	Mineurs	Michele Acucella	95
143	2008	A Night at the Grand Hotel	Ferran Moreno	60
144	2009	Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso		0
145	2013	I Tarantiniani	Self	0
146	2013	The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti	Self	60
147	2013	Handy	Frank The Black	80
148	2014	Love Island	Marquis Polesini	43
149	2014	Figli di Maam		100
150	2014	Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films	Self - Actor	72
151	2015	Earth		0
152	2016	Road to Ruin	Self	0
153	2017	John Wick: Chapter 2	Julius	73
154	2017	The Time of Their Lives	Alberto	51
155	2017	The Lost City of Z	Baron de Gondoriz	64
156	2017	Agony (L'esecutore)		0
157	2020	Entree Des Artists	Henry's Grandfather	0
158	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95
159	2021	The Duel		0
160	2022	The Man from Rome	The Pope	57
161	2023	The Pope's Exorcist	The Pope	70
162	2023	On Our Way		35
163		The Temptation Of Gracie		0
164		Django Lives!	Django	0
165		The Estate		0
166	1963	Un delitto		0
167	1964	Italian Engagement		0
168	1966	The Third Eye	Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)	62
169	1970	Dropout	Bruno	48
170	1982	Kamikaze 1989	Weiss	55
171	1982	Querelle	Lieutenant Seblon	66
172	1985	The Repenter	Falco	61
173	1987	Sweet Country	Paul	48
174	1988	Magdalene	Janza	45
175	1993	Azzurro profondo	Luca Morinari	50
176	1997	The Medal	Ing. Ferrero	0
177	1997	Bella Mafia	Mario Domino	68
178	1998	The Versace Murder	Gianni Versace	27
179	2000	Uninvited	Ralph Barolo	60
180	2001	Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle	Self	0
181	2002	Ultimo stadio	Antonio	0
182	2003	The Uncrowned Heart	Bear's Trainer	0
183	2003	Bad Inclination	Il barbone	30
184	2004	Guardiani delle nuvole	Padre	20
185	2005	The Spaghetti West	Self	60
186	2006	Giornata Nera		0
187	2006	The Holy Family	Zachary	71
188	2007	Two Families	Morandi	0
189	2007	The Final Inquiry	Caifa	47
190	2008	Bastardi	Rene Iuvara	0
191	2010	Letters to Juliet	Lorenzo	70
192	2011	Father	Enrico	0
193	2013	Istintobrass	Self	49
194	2014	Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema	Self	0
195	2015	Road to Capri	Guido	0
196	2015	Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man	Himself	0
197	2017	Il crimine non va in pensione	il primario	56
198	2017	The Neighborhood	Guglielmo	32
199	2017	Agony	Carlo	40
200	2017	The Broken Key	Hiram Abif	34
201	2017	Iceman	Ditob	63
202	2018	Red Land	Professor Ambrosin	61
203	2019	Ed è subito sera		40
204	2019	The Collini Case	Fabrizio Collini	74
205	2019	Recon	Angelo	49
206	2019	Christmas in Rome	Luigi Forlinghetti	66
207	2019	Havana Kyrie	Vittorio Arditi De Bellis	68
208	2020	The Jester from Transylvania	One-eye	60
209	2020	Immortalist	Paolo Spersoni	0
210	2020	The Match	Old Branko	63
211	2020	A Rose in Winter	Rainer Praeger	61
212	2020	The Dark Dance	L'Impresario	40
213	2021	Two Men Alone	Himself	0
214	2021	Off the Rails	Giovanni	62
215	2022	Buon Lavoro		0
216	2022	Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black	Spirit	30
217	2023	The Man Who Drew God	Emanuele	49
218	2024	Compagni d'arte		0
219	2024	Titanus 1904	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
2	1982	Na sowas!	Self	10
3	1983	The Hitchhiker	Dr. Peter Milne	61
4	1984	The Last Days of Pompeii	Arbaces	73
5	1989	Blaues Blut	Sandro Castellani	0
6	1989	I promessi sposi	fra Cristoforo	64
7	1991	Young Catherine	Count Vorontsov	62
8	1995	Desideria e l'anello del drago	Dragon King	0
9	1995	Viva el lunes	Self	20
10	1996	Il Ritorno di Sandokan	Yogi Azim	65
11	1997	David	Nathan	0
12	1997	Desert of Fire	Marcel Duvivier	100
13	1997	Painted Lady	Robert Tassi	75
14	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Roberto Distasio	79
15	2001	Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta	Self	89
16	2001	La voce del sangue	Antonio Castaldi	0
17	2002	Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften	Fashion Billionaire	30
18	2002	Through the Night with...	Self	80
19	2003	Der Fürst und das Mädchen		0
20	2005	Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love		0
21	2007	L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII	Caifa	0
22	2008	Il sangue e la rosa	Conte Uberto Mancini	70
23	2008	Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons	Max Freeman	68
24	2010	Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire	Augustine of Hippo	70
25	2016	Emigratis	Self	68
26	2016	Delicious	Joe Benelli	63
27	2023	Django	Reverend	53