Acting
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 the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.
Movies with Franco Nero
Cars 2
2011
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Django Unchained
2012
In the Hand of Dante
2026
The Pope's Exorcist
2023
Die Hard 2
1990
The Lost City of Z
2017
Letters to Juliet
2010
Saint Paul
2000
Submission
1976
Django
1966
The Estate
2025
David
1997
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966
The Girl
1987
Camelot
1967
Querelle
1982
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
Istintobrass
2013
The Collini Case
2019
The Mercenary
1968
The Pirate
1978
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008
The Salamander
1981
Death Rite
1975
Killer Mermaid
2014
The Harder They Come
1972
The Conquest
1996
Bella Mafia
1997
Hitch Hike
1977
Vacation
1971
Roma elastica
2026
The Match
2021
The Day of the Owl
1968
Iceman
2017
Keoma
1976
Mimi
1979
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Rasputin
2010
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
The Neighborhood
2017
The Battle of Neretva
1969
Tristana
1970
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
The Last Four Days
1974
White Fang
1973
The Final Inquiry
2007
Talk of Angels
1998
The Fifth Day of Peace
1970
The Monk
1972
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
1982
I Knew Her Well
1965
Recon
2019
Compañeros
1970
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
2010
Grog
1982
Dropout
1970
The Broken Key
2017
Redneck
1973
Touch and Die
1991
Fumata blanca
2002
A Rose in Winter
2019
The Visitor
1979
Cry, Onion!
1975
Street Law
1974
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
Buon Lavoro
2022
Sweet Country
1987
Django Strikes Again
1987
Off the Rails
2021
Summer Solstice
2005
Massacre Time
1966
High Crime
1973
We Are Cinema
2021
The Versace Murder
1998
Challenge to White Fang
1974
Texas, Adios
1966
Father
2011
Kamikaze '89
1982
Road to Capri
2015
Pope Joan
1972
The Spaghetti West
2005
I Tarantiniani
2013
Desert of Fire
1997
Sahara Cross
1977
The Repenter
1985
Top Line
1988
On Our Way
2023
Love Island
2014
The Fifth Cord
1971
The Man from Rome
2022
Titanus 1904
2024
Detective Belli
1969
21 Hours at Munich
1976
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971
The Medal
1997
Havana Kyrie
2019
How to Kill a Judge
1975
El Sobrino
The Dragon Ring
1994
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Der Fall Lucona
1993
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
1973
Blood Brothers
1974
The Shark Hunter
1979
La Celestina P… R…
1965
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
The Crusaders
2001
Django Lives!
Two Men Alone
2021
Race to Danger
1988
Victory March
1976
Earth
2015
The Man Who Drew God
2023
Giornata Nera
2006
Two Families
2007
Christmas in Rome
2019
Young Toscanini
1988
The Wild, Wild Planet
1966
The Time of Their Lives
2017
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982
Man, Pride and Vengeance
1967
Post Coitum
2004
Killing Is My Business, Honey
2009
Enter the Ninja
1981
Gold
1992
Jonathan of the Bears
1995
Winds of Passion
2000
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971
Smiling Maniacs
1975
Sergey Bondarchuk
1982
Mein Herz in Chile
2008
Die Försterbuben
1984
Run for Your Life
1988
Sardinia Kidnapped
1968
The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
Ultimo stadio
2002
Giorni felici
2023
The Innocent Sleep
1996
Day of the Cobra
1980
Un delitto
1963
La rabbia
2008
The Temptation Of Gracie
Confessions of a Police Captain
1971
Bastardi
2008
Brothers and Sisters
1992
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
From Time to Time
1992
Guardians of the Clouds
2004
The Hired Killer
1966
The Flower in His Mouth
1975
Breath of Life
1990
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
1992
New Order
2012
Chimera
2001
Forever Blues
2005
The Tramplers
1965
Io e il re
1995
Mirka
2000
Magdalene
1988
La ragion pura
2001
Uninvited
2000
The Holy Family
2006
Memories They Told Me
2013
Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
2015
The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970
Italian Engagement
1964
The Duel
2021
Rack Up
1997
Red Land
2018
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
The Legend of Valentino
1975
A Double Victory
1989
Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999
The Falcon
1983
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013
Ed è subito sera
2019
Crazy Dog
2012
The Third Eye
1966
Agony
2017
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
2023
Obsessive Rhythms
2014
Il Vecchio Terribile
2026
The Dark Dance
2020
War of the Planets
1966
The Blue-Eyed Bandit
1980
Road to Ruin
2016
Márió, a varázsló
2008
A Night at the Grand Hotel
2008
Amore e libertà - Masaniello
2006
André schafft sie alle
1985
In the Company of Compañeros
2001
Entree Des Artists
2020
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
2014
Il crimine non va in pensione
2017
Le rose di Danzica
1979
Compagni d'arte
2024
Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell
2002
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
Bad Inclination
2003
Figli di Maam
2014
Test of Memory
1993
Scorched Skin
1962
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982
Il tesoro di Damasco
1998
Immortalist
2020
Hans
2006
Azzurro profondo
1993
Sacra Corona
2001
The Uncrowned Heart
2003
Un altare per la madre
1986
The Last Alchemist
2012
Devil's Crude
1985
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
2021
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014
The Last Gunfighter
2002
Along the River
2016
Mineurs
2007
La battaglia di Gorthene
Das Babylon Komplott
1993
Harmonie
2020
Prigioniero di un segreto
2010
Handy
2013
Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle
2001
Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show
2005
TV Shows with Franco Nero
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Hitchhiker
1983
Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery
2001
Through the Night with...
2002
Emigratis
2016
Na sowas!
1982
Django
2023
Der große Preis
1974
Delicious
2016
I promessi sposi
1989
Viva el lunes
1995
Saint Paul
2000
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984
The Pirate
1977
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003
The Return of Sandokan
1996
The Crusaders
2001
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
2008
Painted Lady
1997
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010
Young Catherine
1991
Blaues Blut
1989
Desideria e l'anello del drago
1995
David
1997
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
2005
Davide
1997
Il sangue e la rosa
2008
Desert of Fire
1997
Mein Herz in Chile
2008
Le rose di Danzica
1981
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002
La voce del sangue
2001