Franco Nero

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 th…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Django Unchained (2012) — Amerigo Vessepi
2. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) — Julius
3. Cars 2 (2011) — Uncle Topolino (voice)
4. Die Hard 2 (1990) — General Ramon Esperanza
5. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Roberto Distasio
6. The Pope's Exorcist (2023) — The Pope
7. The Lost City of Z (2017) — Baron de Gondoriz
8. Letters to Juliet (2010) — Lorenzo
9. Django (1966) — Django
10. The Collini Case (2019) — Fabrizio Collini
11. Force 10 from Navarone (1978) — Lescovar
12. The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) — Abel
13. Tristana (1970) — Horacio
14. Querelle (1982) — Lieutenant Seblon
15. Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) — Self - Actor
16. I Knew Her Well (1965) — Italo - The garage attendant
17. Keoma (1976) — Keoma
18. The Mercenary (1968) — Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
19. Enter the Ninja (1981) — Cole
20. Iceman (2017) — Ditob
21. The Harder They Come (1972) — Django (archive footage)
22. The Day of the Owl (1968) — Captain Bellodi
23. The Visitor (1979) — Jesus Christ
24. Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008) — King Mathias
25. Compañeros (1970) — Yodlaf Peterson
26. Hitch Hike (1977) — Walter Mancini
27. Killer Mermaid (2014) — Niko
28. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968) — Leonardo Ferri
29. Camelot (1967) — Lancelot Du Lac
30. Massacre Time (1966) — Tom Corbett
31. The Fifth Cord (1971) — Andrea Bild
32. White Fang (1973) — Jason Scott
33. Christmas in Rome (2019) — Luigi Forlinghetti
34. David (1997) — Natan
35. Recon (2019) — Angelo
36. The Battle of Neretva (1969) — Capitano Michele Rossi
37. The Last Four Days (1974) — Walter Audisio
38. The Dragon Ring (1994) — Dragon King
39. The Match (2021) — Old Branko
40. The Man from Rome (2022) — The Pope

Directed

1. The Man Who Drew God (2023) — Director
2. Forever Blues (2005) — Director