Franco Nero
Acting
Born: November 23, 1941 (age 84) · San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Highest Rated
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 the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.
Known for
Django Unchained
2012
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Cars 2
2011
Die Hard 2
1990
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Pope's Exorcist
2023
The Lost City of Z
2017
Letters to Juliet
2010
Django
1966
The Collini Case
2019
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
Photos (6)
Movies (193)
John Wick: Chapter 2
Julius
Cars 2
Uncle Topolino (voice)
Django Unchained
Amerigo Vessepi
Die Hard 2
General Ramon Esperanza
The Lost City of Z
Baron de Gondoriz
The Pope's Exorcist
The Pope
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Abel
Letters to Juliet
Lorenzo
In the Hand of Dante
Don Lecco (86)
The Mercenary
Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
Bathory: Countess of Blood
King Mathias
Hitch Hike
Walter Mancini
The Collini Case
Fabrizio Collini
The Fifth Cord
Andrea Bild
The Salamander
Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
Keoma
Keoma
The Man from Rome
The Pope
Saint Paul
Gamaliel
White Fang
Jason Scott
Challenge to White Fang
Jason Scott
Force 10 from Navarone
Lescovar
The Fifth Day of Peace
Bruno Grauber
Django
Django
Django Strikes Again
Django
Iceman
Ditob
The Battle of Neretva
Capitano Michele Rossi
Camelot
Lancelot Du Lac
The Day of the Owl
Captain Bellodi
Tristana
Horacio
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
General Francini
The Time of Their Lives
Alberto
Compañeros
Yodlaf Peterson
The Last Four Days
Walter Audisio
The Man Who Drew God
Emanuele
Querelle
Lieutenant Seblon
21 Hours at Munich
Issa
The Harder They Come
Django (archive footage)
Detective Belli
Commissario Stefano Belli
I Knew Her Well
Italo - The garage attendant
Killer Mermaid
Niko
Top Line
Ted Angelo
David
Natan
The Man with Bogart's Face
Hakim
The Tramplers
Charley Garvey
The Final Inquiry
Caifa
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
John Reed
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky
The Estate
2025
Submission
Armand
Mimi
Guido
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
Augustinus (age 76)
Day of the Cobra
Larry Stanziani
The Match
Old Branko
Desert of Fire
Marcel Duvivier
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Vanzi
The Girl
Johan (John) Berg
The Visitor
Jesus Christ
Cry, Onion!
Onion Stark
Bella Mafia
Mario Domino
Off the Rails
Giovanni
Texas, Adios
Burt Sullivan
Talk of Angels
Dr. Vicente Areavaga
The Neighborhood
Guglielmo
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Johnny Ears
Death Rite
Sadry
Agony
Carlo
Recon
Angelo
How to Kill a Judge
Giacomo Solaris
The Repenter
Falco
High Crime
Commissario Belli
Christmas in Rome
Luigi Forlinghetti
Victory March
Captain Asciutto
La rabbia
Mentore
The Dragon Ring
Dragon King
Massacre Time
Tom Corbett
The Shark Hunter
Mike di Donato
Confessions of a Police Captain
Sostituto Procuratore Traini
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
The Broken Key
Hiram Abif
Run for Your Life
Commissario
Grog
Nicola Fanelli
Giorni felici
Antonio
The Monk
Ambrosio
The Hired Killer
Tony Lo Bello
A Quiet Place in the Country
Leonardo Ferri
Sahara Cross
Jean Ballard
The Jester from Transylvania
One-eye
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
Valentino's Spirit
Sardinia Kidnapped
Gavino
Blood Brothers
Nicola Bellizzi
Kamikaze '89
Weiss
On Our Way
2023
André schafft sie alle
Andre
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
John Reed
Redneck
Mosquito
Brothers and Sisters
Franco
Street Law
Carlo Antonelli
The Dark Dance
L'Impresario
Handy
Frank The Black
Mineurs
Michele Acucella
Fumata blanca
Cardenal Tura
The Falcon
Banović Strahinja
Enter the Ninja
Cole
Man, Pride and Vengeance
José
Vacation
Osiride
Killing Is My Business, Honey
Enrico Puzzo
The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Renzo Dominici
Winds of Passion
Michele Giangrande
Touch and Die
Aquani
A Rose in Winter
Rainer Praeger
Race to Danger
Francis, il marinaio
Buon Lavoro
2022
The Conquest
Árpád vezér
The Assassination of Matteotti
Giacomo Matteotti
Obsessive Rhythms
Carmine
The Wild, Wild Planet
Lt. Jake
Guardians of the Clouds
Padre
War of the Planets
Lt. Jake Jacowitx
The Versace Murder
Gianni Versace
Das Babylon Komplott
Chris Lang
The Legend of Valentino
Rudolph Valentino
The Third Eye
Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)
Pope Joan
Louis
Sacra Corona
Bishop Gellért
Father
Enrico
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Caporale Nerza
Jonathan of the Bears
Jonathan
Rasputin
Narratore
The Innocent Sleep
Adolfo Cavani
Sweet Country
Paul
Io e il re
Maggiore Ferri
Havana Kyrie
Vittorio Arditi De Bellis
Il tesoro di Damasco
Andrea
Rack Up
Jesus Barro
Love Island
Marquis Polesini
Memories They Told Me
Paolo
La Celestina P… R…
Fabrizio
The Medal
Ing. Ferrero
Il crimine non va in pensione
il primario
Road to Capri
Guido
Italian Engagement
1964
The Virgin and the Gypsy
The gypsy
The Crusaders
Ibnazul
Red Land
Professor Ambrosin
Young Toscanini
Claudio Toscanini
Smiling Maniacs
Judge Dani
Le rose di Danzica
General Konrad von Der Berg
Hans
Giudice/barbone
The Flower in His Mouth
Professore Michele Belcore
Bastardi
René Iuvara
Der Fall Lucona
Enzo Lombardi
A Night at the Grand Hotel
Ferran Moreno
Earth
2015
New Order
Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen
Mirka
Il Sindaco
Ed è subito sera
2019
A Double Victory
Saverio Pallucca
Breath of Life
Angelo
Dropout
Bruno
Ultimo stadio
Antonio
Mein Herz in Chile
Carlos Sanchez
Aurora
Bertoldo
Bad Inclination
Il barbone
Forever Blues
Luca
Devil's Crude
Nick
From Time to Time
Leonard De Vinci
Compagni d'arte
2024
La ragion pura
Marito
Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show
Judge
Amore e libertà - Masaniello
Vicerè
The Holy Family
Zachary
Márió, a varázsló
Mario
Magdalene
Janza
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Fernando
Summer Solstice
Lorenzo
Uninvited
Ralph Barolo
Two Families
Morandi
Il Vecchio Terribile
Oste
Gold
Gabriele da Poppi
Scorched Skin
1962
Immortalist
Paolo Spersoni
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Lui-même
Prigioniero di un segreto
Il barbone
Crazy Dog
Alvaro Genta
Chimera
Imprenditore
Post Coitum
Bakchus
Die Försterbuben
Böhme
Harmonie
2020
Azzurro profondo
Luca Morinari
The Duel
2021
Test of Memory
Paul Herzog
The Last Alchemist
Felix the Alchemist
The Last Gunfighter
The pistolero
TV Shows (25)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Roberto Distasio · 1 eps
The Hitchhiker
Dr. Peter Milne · 1 eps
Django
Reverend · 2 eps
Delicious
Joe Benelli · 4 eps
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
I promessi sposi
fra Cristoforo · 5 eps
Saint Paul
Gamaliel · 2 eps
The Pirate
Baydr Al Fay · 2 eps
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Max Freeman · 1 eps
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Caifa · 2 eps
The Last Days of Pompeii
Arbaces · 3 eps
The Return of Sandokan
Yogi Azim · 4 eps
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
Augustine of Hippo · 2 eps
Young Catherine
Count Vorontsov · 2 eps
David
Nathan · 2 eps
Desert of Fire
Marcel Duvivier · 3 eps
Painted Lady
Robert Tassi · 2 eps
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
2 eps
The Crusaders
Ibnazul · 2 eps
La voce del sangue
Antonio Castaldi · 2 eps
Il sangue e la rosa
Conte Uberto Mancini · 4 eps
Desideria e l'anello del drago
Dragon King · 2 eps
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Fashion Billionaire · 1 eps
Le rose di Danzica
Il generale Konrad Von Den Berg · 3 eps
Mein Herz in Chile
Carlos Sanchez · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (20)
Through the Night with...
Self · 1 eps
Istintobrass
Self
Emigratis
Self · 2 eps
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Self - Actor
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Self - Actor
The Spaghetti West
Self
Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
Himself
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Self
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
Self
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Self
Titanus 1904
Self
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Self
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self
I Tarantiniani
Self
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
Self
In the Company of Compañeros
Self
Two Men Alone
Himself
Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle
Self
Upcoming (2)
Directing (2)
Writing (2)
Producing (11)
The Estate
Executive Producer
The Mystery of Dante
Executive Producer
La rabbia
Producer
La rabbia
Executive Producer
The Shark Hunter
Co-Producer
Vacation
Producer
Jonathan of the Bears
Producer
Dropout
Co-Producer
Forever Blues
Producer
Márió, a varázsló
Co-Producer
Uninvited
Producer
