Franco Nero

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.

Cast

General Ramon Esperanza

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Nicola Bellizzi

Amore e libertà - Masaniello

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

La battaglia di Gorthene

The Battle of Neretva

Capitano Michele Rossi

The Wild, Wild Planet

The Man with Bogart's Face

Jonathan of the Bears

Captain Asciutto

Yodlaf Peterson

Bathory: Countess of Blood

The Last Four Days

Killing Is My Business, Honey

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

Day of the Cobra

Larry Stanziani

The Assassination of Matteotti

Giacomo Matteotti

Brothers and Sisters

Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show

Enter the Ninja

Detective Belli

Commissario Stefano Belli

Uncle Topolino (voice)

Sergei Kowalski, The Polish

Force 10 from Navarone

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Augustinus (age 76)

Django Unchained

Amerigo Vessepi

Lancelot Du Lac

Along the River

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

21 Hours at Munich

The Fifth Day of Peace

Carlo Antonelli

Dr. Vicente Areavaga

A Quiet Place in the Country

Li chiamarono... briganti!

Django Strikes Again

The Day of the Owl

Captain Bellodi

The Shark Hunter

Commissario Belli

War of the Planets

Lt. Jake Jacowitx

The Dragon Ring

The Flower in His Mouth

Professore Michele Belcore

Challenge to White Fang

The Harder They Come

Django (archive footage)

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Man, Pride and Vengeance

Johan (John) Berg

Mein Herz in Chile

Giudice/barbone

Amelia Lópes O'Neill

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci

Confessions of a Police Captain

Sostituto Procuratore Traini

How to Kill a Judge

Giacomo Solaris

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky

Gabriele da Poppi

Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire

The Blue-Eyed Bandit

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

Memories They Told Me

Francis, il marinaio

Márió, a varázsló

Prigioniero di un segreto

Young Toscanini

Claudio Toscanini

Obsessive Rhythms

The Hired Killer

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Banović Strahinja

A Double Victory

Saverio Pallucca

The Last Alchemist

Felix the Alchemist

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

General Francini

In the Hand of Dante

Smiling Maniacs

The Pope's Exorcist

Sardinia Kidnapped

Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell

Giuseppe Mantaldo

Un altare per la madre

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Das Babylon Komplott

Marcel Duvivier

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Il tesoro di Damasco

Bishop Gellért

The Man from Rome

The Last Gunfighter

In the Company of Compañeros

A Night at the Grand Hotel

The Legend of Valentino

Rudolph Valentino

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

Michele Acucella

Self (archive footage)

Run for Your Life

Entree Des Artists

Henry's Grandfather

Die Försterbuben

André schafft sie alle

Frank The Black

I Knew Her Well

Italo - The garage attendant

The Temptation Of Gracie

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Le rose di Danzica

General Konrad von Der Berg

The Innocent Sleep

Marquis Polesini

Summer Solstice

Der Fall Lucona

La Celestina P… R…

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

John Wick: Chapter 2

The Time of Their Lives

The Lost City of Z

Baron de Gondoriz

The Neighborhood

Bad Inclination

The Final Inquiry

The Versace Murder

The Uncrowned Heart

The Spaghetti West

Il crimine non va in pensione

A Rose in Winter

Professor Ambrosin

The Holy Family

Guardians of the Clouds

The Collini Case

Fabrizio Collini

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man

Italian Engagement

Ed è subito sera

Christmas in Rome

Luigi Forlinghetti

Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)

Lieutenant Seblon

Letters to Juliet

Azzurro profondo

Vittorio Arditi De Bellis

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

The Man Who Drew God

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

Valentino's Spirit

The Jester from Transylvania

Compagni d'arte

Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle

Winds of Passion

Michele Giangrande

From Time to Time

Leonard De Vinci

Crew

The Man Who Drew God

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Still Photographer

Django Unchained

Producer, Director, Writer

The Shark Hunter

The Mystery of Dante

Executive Producer

Jonathan of the Bears

Producer, Story

Producer, Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Márió, a varázsló