Franco Nero
Acting
Born 1941-11-23
San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
261 credits
David di Donatello for Best Actor 1
Time Machine Award 1
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1
Awards
Won 1 David di Donatello for Best Actor Award
David di Donatello for Best Actor 1 won
- — Best Actor Won
Time Machine Award 1 won
- 2014 Time Machine Award Won
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1 won
- 1992 Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Django Unchained
Cars 2
Die Hard 2
John Wick: Chapter 2
The Hitchhiker
The Pope's Exorcist
Through the Night with...
The Lost City of Z
Letters to Juliet
Der große Preis
Emigratis
Django
Django
Delicious
In the Hand of Dante
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Viva el lunes
Le rose di Danzica
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
The Collini Case
Na sowas!
Querelle
The Last Days of Pompeii
Force 10 from Navarone
I promessi sposi
Saint Paul
Saint Paul
David
The Mercenary
Killer Mermaid
Keoma
Bella Mafia
Painted Lady
Camelot
Mimi
Death Rite
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Tristana
Young Catherine
Istintobrass
Hitch Hike
Handy
Compañeros
The Return of Sandokan
The Visitor
Cry, Onion!
Mein Herz in Chile
The Monk
The Pirate
The Match
The Pirate
White Fang
The Battle of Neretva
The Last Four Days
Challenge to White Fang
The Final Inquiry
Other credits
2 credits
Producing
1 credit
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