Franco Nero

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-11-23 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Franco Nero

Biography

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 (196...

Acting

1991

Touch and Die

as Aquani

1990

Die Hard 2

as General Ramon Esperanza

2000

Saint Paul

as Gamaliel

1997

David

as Natan

1966

Django

as Django

1974

Blood Brothers

as Nicola Bellizzi

1966

Texas, Adios

as Burt Sullivan

1976

Keoma

as Keoma

1969

The Battle of Neretva

as Capitani Michele Rossi

1966

Massacre Time

as Tom Corbett

1970

Tristana

as Horacio

1966

1971

The Fifth Cord

as Andrea Bild

1995

1976

Victory March

as Captain Asciutto

1970

Compañeros

as Yodlaf Peterson

2008

1974

The Last Four Days

as Walter Audisio

1980

Day of the Cobra

as Larry Stanziani

1973

The Assassination of Matteotti

as Giacomo Matteotti

1981

1969

Detective Belli

as Commissario Stefano Belli

2011

Cars 2

as Uncle Topolino (voice)

1968

The Mercenary

as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish

1978

2012

Django Unchained

as Amerigo Vessepi

1996

The Conquest

as Árpád vezér

1967

Camelot

as Lancelot Du Lac

2016

Along the River

as Frank De Ville

1979

Mimi

as Guido

1970

2010

Rasputin

as Narratore

1970

The 5th Day of Peace

as Bruno Grauber

1973

Redneck

as Mosquito

1974

Street Law

as Carlo Antonelli

1977

Hitch Hike

as Walter Mancini

1985

1998

Talk of Angels

as Dr. Vicente Areavaga

1968

1975

Cry, Onion!

as Onion Stark

1999

1973

White Fang

as Jason Scott

1968

The Day of the Owl

as Captain Bellodi

2002

Fumata blanca

as Cardenal Tura

1979

The Shark Hunter

as Mike di Donato

1973

High Crime

as Commissario Belli

1966

War of the Planets

as Lt. Jake Jacowitx

1975

The Flower in His Mouth

as Professore Michele Belcore

1994

The Dragon Ring

as Dragon King

1974

1972

The Harder They Come

as Django (archive footage)

1977

Sahara Cross

as Jean Ballard

1987

The Girl

as Johan (John) Berg

2008

Mein Herz in Chile

as Carlos Sanchez

2006

Hans

as Giudice/barbone

1992

1973

1988

Top Line

as Ted Angelo

2008

La rabbia

as Mentore

1981

The Salamander

as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci

1971

Confessions of a Police Captain

as Sostituto Procuratore Traini

1965

The Tramplers

as Charley Garvey

1975

How to Kill a Judge

as Giacomo Solaris

1976

Submission

as Armand

1971

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

as Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky

1971

Vacation

as Osiride

1992

Gold

as Gabriele da Poppi

2001

1980

The Blue-Eyed Bandit

as Renzo Dominici

2012

New Order

as Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen

2004

Post Coitum

as Bakchus

1988

Race to Danger

as Francis, il marinaio

2012

Crazy Dog

as Alvaro Genta

2010

1988

Young Toscanini

as Claudio Toscanini

2014

1966

The Hired Killer

as Tony Lo Bello

1975

Death Rite

as Sadry

1983

The Falcon

as Banović Strahinja

1989

A Double Victory

as Saverio Pallucca

2012

The Last Alchemist

as Felix the Alchemist

2014

2023

Giorni Felici

as Antonio

2001

1972

The Monk

as Ambrosio

1982

Grog

as Nicola Fanelli

1975

Smiling Maniacs

as Judge Dani

2023

1968

1993

1997

Desert of Fire

as Marcel Duvivier

2001

Sacra Corona

as Bishop Gellért

2022

1979

The Visitor

as Jesus Christ

2002

The Last Gunfighter

as The pistolero

2000

Mirka

as Il Sindaco

2008

1995

Io e il re

as Maggiore Ferri

1993

Test of Memory

as Paul Herzog

1975

The Legend of Valentino

as Rudolph Valentino

2016

2015

2007

Mineurs

as Michele Acucella

2021

We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

1988

Run for Your Life

as Commissario

2013

2020

Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandfather

1984

1978

The Pirate

as Baydr Al Fay

2013

Handy

as Frank The Black

1997

Rack Up

as Jesus Barro

1965

I Knew Her Well

as Italo - The garage attendant

1979

Le rose di Danzica

as General Konrad von Der Berg

-

Django Lives!

as Django

1996

The Innocent Sleep

as Adolfo Cavani

2014

Love Island

as Marquis Polesini

2005

1972

Pope Joan

as Louis

2005

Summer Solstice

as Lorenzo

1993

Der Fall Lucona

as Enzo Lombardi

2001

The Crusaders

as Ibnazul

1965

1990

2017

The Lost City of Z

as Baron de Gondoriz

2000

Uninvited

as Ralph Barolo

1970

Dropout

as Bruno

2017

The Neighborhood

as Guglielmo

2003

Bad Inclination

as Il barbone

1985

The Repenter

as Falco

2017

The Broken Key

as Hiram Abif

2007

1988

Magdalene

as Janza

2017

Agony

as Carlo

2017

Iceman

as Ditob

1998

The Versace Murder

as Gianni Versace

1982

Kamikaze '89

as Weiss

2003

The Uncrowned Heart

as Bear's Trainer

2020

A Rose in Winter

as Rainer Praeger

2018

Red Land

as Professor Ambrosin

2006

The Holy Family

as Zachary

2019

The Collini Case

as Fabrizio Collini

1987

2002

Ultimo stadio

as Antonio

2008

Bastardi

as Rene Iuvara

2019

Christmas in Rome

as Luigi Forlinghetti

1997

The Medal

as Ing. Ferrero

1966

The Third Eye

as Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)

2015

1982

Querelle

as Lieutenant Seblon

2010

2013

2021

Off the Rails

as Giovanni

1993

Azzurro profondo

as Luca Morinari

2020

The Dark Dance

as L'Impresario

2019

Recon

as Angelo

2019

Havana Kyrie

as Vittorio Arditi De Bellis

2020

Immortalist

as Paolo Spersoni

1997

Bella Mafia

as Mario Domino

2023

2020

The Match

as Old Branko

2021

Two Men Alone

as Himself

2011

Father

as Enrico

2007

Two Families

as Morandi

2024

2000

Winds of Passion

as Michele Giangrande

Production

2023

2000

Uninvited

as Producer

1966

The Bible: In the Beginning...

as Still Photographer

2012

2005

Forever Blues

as Writer

2005

Forever Blues

as Director

2005

Forever Blues

as Producer

1979

The Shark Hunter

as Co-Producer

2014

The Mystery of Dante

as Executive Producer

1995

1970

Dropout

as Co-Producer

2008

La rabbia

as Producer

2008

La rabbia

as Executive Producer

1971

Vacation

as Producer

-

The Estate

as Executive Producer

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