Franco Nero
Actor
Born November 23, 1941 in San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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).
Filmography
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Roma elastica
The Old Filmmaker
Django Lives!
Django
In the Hand of Dante
Don Lecco (86)
Il Vecchio Terribile
Oste
L'ANIME CHE OGNI OBESO HA BISOGNO
The Estate
Titanus 1904
Self
Compagni d'arte
The Jester from Transylvania
One-eye
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
Valentino's Spirit
Giorni felici
Antonio
On Our Way
The Pope's Exorcist
The Pope
The Man Who Drew God
Emanuele
Django
Reverend
The Man from Rome
The Pope
Buon Lavoro
The Duel
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Self - Actor
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Self
Off the Rails
Giovanni
Two Men Alone
Himself
The Match
Old Branko
The Dark Dance
L'Impresario
Harmonie
Immortalist
Paolo Spersoni
Havana Kyrie
Vittorio Arditi De Bellis
Christmas in Rome
Luigi Forlinghetti
Recon
Angelo
A Rose in Winter
Rainer Praeger
The Collini Case
Fabrizio Collini
Ed è subito sera
Red Land
Professor Ambrosin
Iceman
Ditob
The Broken Key
Hiram Abif
Agony
Carlo
The Neighborhood
Guglielmo
Il crimine non va in pensione
il primario
The Lost City of Z
Baron de Gondoriz
The Time of Their Lives
Alberto
John Wick: Chapter 2
Julius
Delicious
Joe Benelli
Emigratis
Self
Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
Himself
Earth
Road to Capri
Guido
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Self - Actor
Love Island
Marquis Polesini
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Self
Killer Mermaid
Niko
The Mystery of Dante
Obsessive Rhythms
Carmine
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Lui-même
Handy
Frank The Black
Istintobrass
Self
Memories They Told Me
Paolo
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
Self
I Tarantiniani
Self
Django Unchained
Amerigo Vessepi
The Last Alchemist
Felix the Alchemist
Crazy Dog
Alvaro Genta
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Self
New Order
Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen
Cars 2
Uncle Topolino (voice)
Father
Enrico
Rasputin
Narratore
Prigioniero di un segreto
Il barbone
Letters to Juliet
Lorenzo
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
Augustinus (age 76)
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
Augustine of Hippo
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Killing Is My Business, Honey
Enrico Puzzo
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Max Freeman
Márió, a varázsló
Mario
A Night at the Grand Hotel
Ferran Moreno
Mein Herz in Chile
Carlos Sanchez
Mein Herz in Chile
Carlos Sanchez
Il sangue e la rosa
Conte Uberto Mancini
Bathory: Countess of Blood
King Mathias
La rabbia
Mentore
Bastardi
Rene Iuvara
Mineurs
Michele Acucella
The Final Inquiry
Caifa
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Caifa
Two Families
Morandi
The Holy Family
Zachary
Amore e libertà - Masaniello
Vicerè
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self
Hans
Giudice/barbone
Summer Solstice
Lorenzo
Forever Blues
Luca
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self
The Spaghetti West
Self
Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show
Judge
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
Post Coitum
Bakchus
Guardians of the Clouds
Padre
Bad Inclination
Il barbone
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
The Last Gunfighter
The pistolero
Fumata blanca
Cardenal Tura
Ultimo stadio
Antonio
Through the Night with...
Self
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Fashion Billionaire
In the Company of Compañeros
Self
La ragion pura
Marito
The Crusaders
Ibnazul
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
General Francini
La voce del sangue
Antonio Castaldi
Chimera
Imprenditore
Sacra Corona
Bishop Gellért
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
Self
Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle
Self
The Crusaders
Ibnazul
Saint Paul
Gamaliel
Saint Paul
Gamaliel
Winds of Passion
Michele Giangrande
Uninvited
Ralph Barolo
Mirka
Il Sindaco
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Roberto Distasio
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Caporale Nerza
Talk of Angels
Dr. Vicente Areavaga
Il tesoro di Damasco
Andrea
The Versace Murder
Gianni Versace
Painted Lady
Robert Tassi
Bella Mafia
Mario Domino
Desert of Fire
Marcel Duvivier
The Medal
Ing. Ferrero
Rack Up
Jesus Barro
David
Nathan
David
Natan
Desert of Fire
Marcel Duvivier
The Conquest
Árpád vezér
The Return of Sandokan
Yogi Azim
The Innocent Sleep
Adolfo Cavani
Io e il re
Maggiore Ferri
Jonathan of the Bears
Jonathan
Desideria e l'anello del drago
Dragon King
The Dragon Ring
Dragon King
Das Babylon Komplott
Chris Lang
Test of Memory
Paul Herzog
Der Fall Lucona
Enzo Lombardi
Azzurro profondo
Luca Morinari
Brothers and Sisters
Franco
Gold
Gabriele da Poppi
From Time to Time
Leonard De Vinci
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Fernando
Young Catherine
Count Vorontsov
Touch and Die
Aquani
Breath of Life
Angelo
Die Hard 2
General Ramon Esperanza
I promessi sposi
fra Cristoforo
Magdalene
Janza
Young Toscanini
Claudio Toscanini
Top Line
Ted Angelo
Race to Danger
Francis, il marinaio
Run for Your Life
Commissario
Django Strikes Again
Django
The Girl
Johan (John) Berg
Sweet Country
Paul
The Repenter
Falco
André schafft sie alle
Andre
Devil's Crude
Nick
Die Försterbuben
Böhme
The Last Days of Pompeii
Arbaces
The Hitchhiker
Dr. Peter Milne
The Falcon
Banović Strahinja
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
John Reed
Querelle
Lieutenant Seblon
Grog
Nicola Fanelli
Kamikaze '89
Weiss
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
John Reed
Le rose di Danzica
Il generale Konrad Von Den Berg
Enter the Ninja
Cole
The Salamander
Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
The Man with Bogart's Face
Hakim
Day of the Cobra
Larry Stanziani
The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Renzo Dominici
The Shark Hunter
Mike di Donato
Le rose di Danzica
General Konrad von Der Berg
Mimi
Guido
The Visitor
Jesus Christ
The Pirate
Baydr Al Fay
Force 10 from Navarone
Lescovar
The Pirate
Baydr Al Fay
Sahara Cross
Jean Ballard
Hitch Hike
Walter Mancini
21 Hours at Munich
Issa
Keoma
Keoma
Submission
Armand
Victory March
Captain Asciutto
The Legend of Valentino
Rudolph Valentino
The Flower in His Mouth
Professore Michele Belcore
Death Rite
Sadry
Cry, Onion!
Onion Stark
How to Kill a Judge
Giacomo Solaris
Smiling Maniacs
Judge Dani
Challenge to White Fang
Jason Scott
Street Law
Carlo Antonelli
The Last Four Days
Walter Audisio
Blood Brothers
Nicola Bellizzi
White Fang
Jason Scott
The Assassination of Matteotti
Giacomo Matteotti
High Crime
Commissario Belli
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Johnny Ears
Redneck
Mosquito
The Monk
Ambrosio
Pope Joan
Louis
The Harder They Come
Django (archive footage)
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Vanzi
Vacation
Osiride
The Fifth Cord
Andrea Bild
Confessions of a Police Captain
Sostituto Procuratore Traini
Compañeros
Yodlaf Peterson
Dropout
Bruno
The Virgin and the Gypsy
The gypsy
The Fifth Day of Peace
Bruno Grauber
Tristana
Horacio
The Battle of Neretva
Capitano Michele Rossi
Detective Belli
Commissario Stefano Belli
The Mercenary
Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
A Quiet Place in the Country
Leonardo Ferri
Sardinia Kidnapped
Gavino
The Day of the Owl
Captain Bellodi
Man, Pride and Vengeance
José
Camelot
Lancelot Du Lac
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Abel
Texas, Adios
Burt Sullivan
Massacre Time
Tom Corbett
War of the Planets
Lt. Jake Jacowitx
The Wild, Wild Planet
Lt. Jake
The Third Eye
Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)
Django
Django
The Hired Killer
Tony Lo Bello
The Tramplers
Charley Garvey
I Knew Her Well
Italo - The garage attendant
La Celestina P… R…
Fabrizio
Italian Engagement
Scorched Skin