Franco Nero
Acting
1941-11-23 · 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). 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.
Filmography
TheatersRoma elastica
2026 · Movie
TheatersIn the Hand of Dante
2026 · Movie
Aurora
2026 · Movie
Il Vecchio Terribile
2026 · Movie
L'ANIME CHE OGNI OBESO HA BISOGNO
2026 · Movie
The Estate
2025 · Movie
Titanus 1904
2024 · Movie
Compagni d'arte
2024 · Movie
The Jester from Transylvania
2024 · Movie
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
2023 · Movie
Giorni felici
2023 · Movie
On Our Way
2023 · Movie
The Pope's Exorcist
2023 · Movie
The Man Who Drew God
2023 · Movie
Django
2023 · Series
The Man from Rome
2022 · Movie
Buon Lavoro
2022 · Movie
The Duel
2021 · Movie
We Are Cinema
2021 · Movie
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021 · Movie
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
2021 · Movie
Off the Rails
2021 · Movie
Two Men Alone
2021 · Movie
The Match
2021 · Movie
The Dark Dance
2020 · Movie
Harmonie
2020 · Movie
Immortalist
2020 · Movie
Entree Des Artists
2020 · Movie
Havana Kyrie
2019 · Movie
Christmas in Rome
2019 · Movie
Recon
2019 · Movie
A Rose in Winter
2019 · Movie
The Collini Case
2019 · Movie
Ed è subito sera
2019 · Movie
Red Land
2018 · Movie
Iceman
2017 · Movie
The Broken Key
2017 · Movie
Agony
2017 · Movie
The Neighborhood
2017 · Movie
Il crimine non va in pensione
2017 · Movie
The Lost City of Z
2017 · Movie
The Time of Their Lives
2017 · Movie
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Movie
Delicious
2016 · Series
Emigratis
2016 · Series
Road to Ruin
2016 · Movie
Along the River
2016 · Movie
Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
2015 · Movie
Earth
2015 · Movie
Road to Capri
2015 · Movie
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Movie
Figli di Maam
2014 · Movie
Love Island
2014 · Movie
Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
2014 · Movie
Killer Mermaid
2014 · Movie
The Mystery of Dante
2014 · Movie
Obsessive Rhythms
2014 · Movie
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014 · Movie
Handy
2013 · Movie
Istintobrass
2013 · Movie
Memories They Told Me
2013 · Movie
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013 · Movie
I Tarantiniani
2013 · Movie
Django Unchained
2012 · Movie
The Last Alchemist
2012 · Movie
Crazy Dog
2012 · Movie
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 · Movie
New Order
2012 · Movie
Cars 2
2011 · Movie
Father
2011 · Movie
Rasputin
2010 · Movie
Prigioniero di un segreto
2010 · Movie
Letters to Juliet
2010 · Movie
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
2010 · Movie
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010 · Series
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009 · Movie
Killing Is My Business, Honey
2009 · Movie
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
2008 · Series
Márió, a varázsló
2008 · Movie
A Night at the Grand Hotel
2008 · Movie
Mein Herz in Chile
2008 · Series
Mein Herz in Chile
2008 · Movie
Il sangue e la rosa
2008 · Series
Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008 · Movie
La rabbia
2008 · Movie
Bastardi
2008 · Movie
Mineurs
2007 · Movie
The Final Inquiry
2007 · Movie
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007 · Series
Two Families
2007 · Movie
The Holy Family
2006 · Movie
Amore e libertà - Masaniello
2006 · Movie
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006 · Movie
Hans
2006 · Movie
Giornata Nera
2006 · Movie
Summer Solstice
2005 · Movie
Forever Blues
2005 · Movie
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005 · Movie
The Spaghetti West
2005 · Movie
Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show
2005 · Movie
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
2005 · Series
Post Coitum
2004 · Movie
Guardians of the Clouds
2004 · Movie
Bad Inclination
2003 · Movie
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
2003 · Series
The Uncrowned Heart
2003 · Movie
The Last Gunfighter
2002 · Movie
Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell
2002 · Movie
Through the Night with...
2002 · Series
Fumata blanca
2002 · Movie
Ultimo stadio
2002 · Movie
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
2002 · Series
In the Company of Compañeros
2001 · Movie
La ragion pura
2001 · Movie
The Crusaders
2001 · Series
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001 · Movie
La voce del sangue
2001 · Series
Chimera
2001 · Movie
Sacra Corona
2001 · Movie
Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle
2001 · Movie
The Crusaders
2001 · Movie
Saint Paul
2000 · Series
Saint Paul
2000 · Movie
Winds of Passion
2000 · Movie
Uninvited
2000 · Movie
Mirka
2000 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999 · Movie
Talk of Angels
1998 · Movie
Il tesoro di Damasco
1998 · Movie
The Versace Murder
1998 · Movie
Painted Lady
1997 · Series
Bella Mafia
1997 · Movie
Desert of Fire
1997 · Series
The Medal
1997 · Movie
Rack Up
1997 · Movie
David
1997 · Series
David
1997 · Movie
Davide
1997 · Series
Desert of Fire
1997 · Movie
The Conquest
1996 · Movie
The Return of Sandokan
1996 · Series
The Innocent Sleep
1996 · Movie
Viva el lunes
1995 · Series
Io e il re
1995 · Movie
Jonathan of the Bears
1995 · Movie
Desideria e l'anello del drago
1995 · Series
The Dragon Ring
1994 · Movie
Das Babylon Komplott
1993 · Movie
Test of Memory
1993 · Movie
Der Fall Lucona
1993 · Movie
Azzurro profondo
1993 · Movie
Brothers and Sisters
1992 · Movie
Gold
1992 · Movie
From Time to Time
1992 · Movie
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
1992 · Movie
Young Catherine
1991 · Series
Touch and Die
1991 · Movie
Breath of Life
1990 · Movie
Die Hard 2
1990 · Movie
I promessi sposi
1989 · Series
Blaues Blut
1989 · Series
A Double Victory
1989 · Movie
Magdalene
1988 · Movie
Young Toscanini
1988 · Movie
Top Line
1988 · Movie
Race to Danger
1988 · Movie
Run for Your Life
1988 · Movie
Django Strikes Again
1987 · Movie
The Girl
1987 · Movie
Sweet Country
1987 · Movie
Un altare per la madre
1986 · Movie
The Repenter
1985 · Movie
André schafft sie alle
1985 · Movie
Devil's Crude
1985 · Movie
Die Försterbuben
1984 · Movie
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984 · Series
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Series
The Falcon
1983 · Movie
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982 · Movie
Querelle
1982 · Movie
Grog
1982 · Movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works
1982 · Movie
Kamikaze '89
1982 · Movie
Na sowas!
1982 · Series
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
1982 · Movie
Sergey Bondarchuk
1982 · Movie
Le rose di Danzica
1981 · Series
Enter the Ninja
1981 · Movie
The Salamander
1981 · Movie
The Man with Bogart's Face
1980 · Movie
Day of the Cobra
1980 · Movie
The Blue-Eyed Bandit
1980 · Movie
The Shark Hunter
1979 · Movie
Le rose di Danzica
1979 · Movie
Mimi
1979 · Movie
The Visitor
1979 · Movie
Force 10 from Navarone
1978 · Movie
The Pirate
1977 · Series
Sahara Cross
1977 · Movie
Hitch Hike
1977 · Movie
21 Hours at Munich
1976 · Movie
Keoma
1976 · Movie
Submission
1976 · Movie
Victory March
1976 · Movie
The Legend of Valentino
1975 · Movie
The Flower in His Mouth
1975 · Movie
Death Rite
1975 · Movie
Cry, Onion!
1975 · Movie
How to Kill a Judge
1975 · Movie
Smiling Maniacs
1975 · Movie
Challenge to White Fang
1974 · Movie
Street Law
1974 · Movie
Der große Preis
1974 · Series
The Last Four Days
1974 · Movie
Blood Brothers
1974 · Movie
White Fang
1973 · Movie
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973 · Movie
High Crime
1973 · Movie
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
1973 · Movie
Redneck
1973 · Movie
The Monk
1972 · Movie
Pope Joan
1972 · Movie
The Harder They Come
1972 · Movie
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
1971 · Movie
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971 · Movie
Vacation
1971 · Movie
The Fifth Cord
1971 · Movie
Confessions of a Police Captain
1971 · Movie
Compañeros
1970 · Movie
Dropout
1970 · Movie
The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970 · Movie
The Fifth Day of Peace
1970 · Movie
Tristana
1970 · Movie
The Battle of Neretva
1969 · Movie
Detective Belli
1969 · Movie
The Mercenary
1968 · Movie
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968 · Movie
Sardinia Kidnapped
1968 · Movie
The Day of the Owl
1968 · Movie
Man, Pride and Vengeance
1967 · Movie
Camelot
1967 · Movie
The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966 · Movie
Texas, Adios
1966 · Movie
Massacre Time
1966 · Movie
War of the Planets
1966 · Movie
The Wild, Wild Planet
1966 · Movie
The Third Eye
1966 · Movie
Django
1966 · Movie
The Hired Killer
1966 · Movie
The Tramplers
1965 · Movie
I Knew Her Well
1965 · Movie
La Celestina P… R…
1965 · Movie
Italian Engagement
1964 · Movie
Un delitto
1963 · Movie
Scorched Skin
1962 · Movie
El Sobrino
Movie
The Temptation Of Gracie
Movie
Django Lives!
Movie
La battaglia di Gorthene
Movie