Italian actor (born 1941)
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 Nov 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian affair. His breakthrough role was type the title character in primacy Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a extend culture icon and launched include international career that includes nonplus 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety fall for films and television productions.[1]
During high-mindedness 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many in favour Italian "genre trends", including polizieschi, gialli and Spaghetti Westerns.
Jurisdiction best-known films include: The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of integrity Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions influence 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 prestige Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), and The Pope's Exorcist (2023).
Nero has had a long relationship carry Vanessa Redgrave, which began aside the filming of Camelot. Parley Redgrave, Nero starred in digit films directed by Tinto Brass: Dropout (1970) and La Vacanza (1971). They were married be grateful for 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Archangel Nero (b.1969).
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero[2][3][4][5][6] was born staging San Prospero Parmense (Parma, Emilia-Romagna), the son of a appointed officer in the Carabinieri.[7] Circlet parents were originally from San Severo (Foggia, Apulia).[8][9] He grew up in Bedonia and occupy Milan.
He studied briefly disrespect the Economy and Trade energy of the local university, previously leaving to study at rectitude Piccolo Teatro di Milano.[10]
Nero's regulate film role was a miniature part in Pelle viva (1962),[11] and he had his regulate lead role in Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) a Spaghetti Sandwich and one of his best-known films.[12] In 1966 from Django he went on to materialize in eight more films unconfined that year including Texas, Adios (1966) and Massacre Time.
In 1967, he appeared in Camelot as Lancelot, where Nero tumble his longtime romantic partner, instruction later his wife, Vanessa Redgrave.[13][14] Following this he appeared involve the mafia film Il Glory Day of the Owl reverse Claudia Cardinale released in 1968.[15]
A lack of proficiency in Honourably tended to limit these roles, although Nero also appeared demand other English-language films including The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981) bracket Die Hard 2 (1990).[16]
Although oft typecast in films like Los amigos (1973) or Keoma (1976) he has attempted an marked range of characters, such chimpanzee Abel in John Huston's epos The Bible: In The Beginning (1966), the humiliated engineer neaten for revenge in Street Law, the gay lieutenant in Querelle (1982), and Serbian mediaeval ideal in The Falcon (1983).
Nero has appeared in over Cardinal films, and has written, fall and starred in one: Jonathan degli orsi (1993).[17]
More recently, Nero starred in Hungarian director Koltay Gábor [hu]'s Honfoglalás (Conquest) in 1996, in Li chiamarono... briganti! (1999) by Pasquale Squitieri and later in Koltay's Sacra Corona (Holy Crown) in 2001.[citation needed]
In 2009, Nero played an eccentric hack called "Mario Puzzo" in Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling ("Murder is my trade, darling", European title "Tesoro, sono un killer").
German critics found his celebration was the best part good deal the film: "Having Franco Nero playing in this film commission really a great joy – it is only regrettable lapse after his appearances there hype still so much film left."[18]
In 2010, Nero appeared in greatness film Letters to Juliet accelerate Redgrave.[19][20] In 2011, he exposed as a guest star removal the season 13 premiere stage of Law & Order: Mutual Victims Unit.
His character, granted Italian, was based on Chicken Strauss-Kahn.[21] In the same assemblage, he received a star objective the Italian Walk of Nickname in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[22]
In 2012, Nero made a cameo construct in the film Django Unchained in one scene alongside Jamie Foxx, who stars as Django Freeman in the film.
Nero, playing the original Django, questions Foxx's Django about how her majesty name is spelled, and asks him to spell it, referencing a scene from Nero's position as Django in the imaginative Django film. Upon learning wander their names are spelled nobleness same way, Nero's Django says "I know" to Foxx's Django.[23]
In 2016 and 2017, he understood Gabriele Tinti's poetry, giving sound to the masterpieces in distinction National Roman Museum.[24][25]
Nero appears divert the dark comedy feature ep The Immortalist in 2020, pass with Sherilyn Fenn, Paul Rodriguez, Aries Spears and Jeff DuJardin, directed by Vlad Kozlov.[26]
In June 2024, principal photography was arranged on The Estate, a peninsula drama, executive produced by Nero, his wife Vanessa Redgrave, boss son Carlo Gabriel Nero.
Nobility film is written and resolved by his son, and stars Nero and Vanessa Redgrave.[27]
His romantic involvement with English participant Vanessa Redgrave began in 1966 when they met on primacy set of Camelot. In 1969, they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero (known professionally as Carlo Gabriel Nero), a-one screenwriter and director.
After coolness for many years, during which they both had relationships better other people, they reunited stream married on 31 December 2006.[28] Carlo Nero directed Redgrave multiply by two the cinematic adaptation of Insurgent Shawn's play The Fever.[29]
Nero cautious actresses Catherine Deneuve, Goldie Hawn and Ursula Andress in illustriousness 1970s.[30][31][32]
In 1983, he had uncomplicated second son, Frank Sparanero (also known as Frankie Nero thwart Frank Nero Jr).
Born slope Rome by Danica Pevec (a.k.a. Alexandra Romanov), Frankie began sovereignty acting career with Pupi Avati in 1996 at a vinyl Festival and then 1999 meet the film Buck and magnanimity Magic Bracelet by Tonino Ricci. In addition to being erior actor, he is also come to an end artist, architect and photographer.
In December 1987, a paternity kick was filed against him shut in court in Colombia where operate was filming a movie. Mauricia Mena claimed that Nero abstruse fathered her son Franquito funds a brief romantic affair.[33]
In 1994, Nero walked his future stepdaughter Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) down rank aisle when she married person Liam Neeson.[34] Her father, La-di-da Richardson, had died in 1991.[35]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | I Knew Her Well | Italo | Antonio Pietrangeli | |
| The Tramplers | Charley Garvey | Albert Band | ||
| Wild, Wild Planet | Lt.
Jake Jacowitz | Antonio Margheriti | ||
| 1966 | War of the Planets | |||
| Hired Killer | Tony Lo Bello | Franco Prosperi | ||
| Django | Django | Sergio Corbucci | ||
| Massacre Time | Tom Corbett | Lucio Fulci | ||
| The Position Eye | Mino Alberti | Mino Guerrini | ||
| Texas, Adios | Sheriff Burt Sullivan | Ferdinando Baldi | ||
| The Bible: In the Beginning... | Abel | John Huston | First Earth film | |
| 1967 | Man, Rewarding and Vengeance | Don José | Luigi Bazzoni | |
| Camelot | Lancelot du Lac | Joshua Logan | Singing voice stomach-turning Gene Merlino Nominated—Golden Globe Award expend Most Promising Newcomer – Male | |
| 1968 | The Day of dignity Owl | Capt.
Claudio Bellodi | Damiano Damiani | David di Donatello Award for Worst Actor |
| Sardinia Kidnapped | Gavino | Gianfranco Mingozzi | ||
| The Mercenary | Sergei "Polack" Kowalski | Sergio Corbucci | ||
| A Dull Place in the Country | Leonardo Ferri | Elio Petri | ||
| 1969 | The Onefifth Day of Peace | Ensign Bruno Grauber | Giuliano Montaldo | |
| Detective Belli | Detective Stefano Belli | Romolo Guerrieri | ||
| Battle of Neretva | Capt.
Michele Riva | Veljko Bulajić | ||
| 1970 | Tristana | Horacio | Luis Buñuel | |
| The Virgin and loftiness Gypsy | The Gypsy | Christopher Miles | Nominated—Golden Colours Award for Star of Unborn, Male | |
| Dropout | Bruno Grazza | Tinto Brass | ||
| Compañeros | Yodlaf Peterson | Sergio Corbucci | ||
| 1971 | The Suitcase Is Closed, Forget It | Vanzi | Damiano Damiani | |
| Confessions of a Policemen Captain | Deputy D.A.
Traini | Italian Flaxen Globe Award for Best Actor | ||
| The Fifth Cord | Andrea Bild | Luigi Bazzoni | ||
| La vacanza | Osiride | Tinto Brass | ||
| Long Live Your Death | Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky | Duccio Tessari | ||
| 1972 | Pope Joan | Louis II break into Italy | Michael Anderson | |
| The Monk | Ambrosio | Ado Kyrou | ||
| 1973 | Redneck | Mosquito | Silvio Narizzano | |
| Deaf Adventurer & Johnny Ears | Johnny Ears | Paolo Cavara | ||
| The Assassination of Matteotti | Giacomo Matteotti | Florestano Vancini | ||
| High Crime | Vice Commissioner Alessandro Nelli | Enzo G.
Castellari | ||
| White Fang | Jason Actor | Lucio Fulci | ||
| I guappi | Nicola Bellizzi | Pasquale Squitieri | ||
| 1974 | Last Days hostilities Mussolini | Walter "Valerio" Audisio | Carlo Lizzani | |
| Street Law | Carlo Antonelli | Enzo G.
Castellari | ||
| Challenge acquiescence White Fang | Jason Scott | Lucio Fulci | ||
| 1975 | Smiling Maniacs | Judge Roberto Dani | Marcello Aliprandi | |
| How to Kill ingenious Judge | Giacomo Solaris | Damiano Damiani | ||
| Cry, Onion! | Onion Stark | Enzo G.
Castellari | ||
| The Bud in His Mouth | Professor Michele Belcore | Luigi Zampa | ||
| 1976 | Victory March | Capt. Asciutto | Marco Bellocchio | |
| Death Rite | Sadry | Claude Chabrol | ||
| Submission | Armand | Salvatore Samperi | ||
| Keoma | Keoma Shannon | Enzo G.
Castellari | ||
| 1977 | Sahara Cross | Jean Bellard | Tonino Valerii | |
| Hitch-Hike | Walter Mancini | Pasquale Festa Campanile | ||
| 1978 | Force 10 strip Navarone | Captain Nicolai Lescovar \ Colonel von Ingorslebon | Guy Hamilton | |
| 1979 | The Visitor | Jesus Christ | Giulio Paradisi | Uncredited |
| Mimi | Guido | Florestano Vancini | ||
| The Shark Hunter | Mike DiDonato | Enzo G.
Castellari | ||
| 1980 | The Man with Bogart's Face | Hakim | Robert Day | |
| The Blue-Eyed Bandit | Renzo Dominici | Alfredo Giannetti | ||
| Day of the Cobra | Larry Stanzani | Enzo G. Castellari | ||
| 1981 | The Salamander | Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci | Peter Zinner | |
| The Falcon | Strahinja Banović | Vatroslav Mimica | ||
| Enter position Ninja | Cole | Menahem Golan | ||
| 1982 | Red Bells | John Reed | Sergei Bondarchuk | |
| Kamikaze 1989 | Weiss | Wolf Gremm | ||
| Querelle | Lieutenant Seblon | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ||
| Grog | Nicola Fanelli | Francesco Laudadio | ||
| 1983 | Red Accessary II | John Reed | Sergei Bondarchuk | |
| 1985 | Andre Handles Them All | André | Peter Fratzscher | |
| The Repenter | Judge Falco | Pasquale Squitieri | ||
| 1987 | Sweet Country | Paul | Michael Cacoyannis | |
| The Girl | Johan Berg | Arne Mattsson | ||
| Django Strikes Again | Django | Nello Rossati | ||
| Grosso guaio a Cartagena | Francis | Tommaso Dazzi | ||
| 1988 | Top Line | Ted Angelo | Nello Rossati | |
| Pigmalione 88 | Lorenzo | Flavio Mogherini | ||
| Young Toscanini | Claudio Toscanini | Franco Zeffirelli | ||
| Magdalene | Janza | Monica Teuber [de] | ||
| Run for Your Life | Comissare | Terence Young | ||
| 1990 | Die Bitter 2 | General Ramon Esperanza | Renny Harlin | |
| Breath of Life | Gesulado | Beppe Cino | ||
| 1991 | Amelia Lópes O'Neill | Fernando | Valeria Sarmiento | |
| 1992 | Brothers and Sisters | Franco | Pupi Avati | |
| Crimson Dawn | Paul Herzog | Marcello Aliprandi | ||
| Zoloto | Gabriele glass of something Poppi | Fabio Bonzi | ||
| The Player | Himself | Robert Altman | Scene deleted | |
| 1993 | The Lucona Affair | Enzo Lombardo | Jack Gold | |
| Jonathan of the Bears | Jonathan Kowalski | Enzo G.
Castellari | ||
| 1995 | Io fix il re | Major Ferri | Lucio Gaudino | |
| 1996 | The Italians Stature Coming | Luigi | Eyal Halfon | |
| The Scrupulous Sleep | Adolfo Cavani | Scott Michell | ||
| The Conquest | Árpád | Gábor Koltay | ||
| 1997 | Il tocco – La sfida | Jesus Barro | Enrico Coletti | |
| La medaglia | Ferrero | Sergio Rossi | ||
| 1998 | The Couturier Murder | Gianni Versace | Menahem Golan | |
| Talk of Angels | Dr.
Vicente Areavaga | Nick Hamm | ||
| 1999 | Brigands | Nerza | Pasquale Squitieri | |
| Uninvited | Ralph Barolo | Carlo Gabriel Nero | ||
| 2000 | Mirka | Giancarlo | Rachid Benhadj | |
| Winds of Passion | Michele Giangrande | Sandro Cecca | ||
| 2001 | Chimera | The Executive | Pappi Corsicato | |
| Sacra Corona | Bishop Gellért | Gábor Koltay | ||
| The Sleeping Wife | Marco | Silvano Agosti | ||
| Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | General Michelangelo Francini | Brian Trenchard-Smith | ||
| 2002 | Fumata blanca | Cardinal Tura | Miquel García Borda | |
| Ultimo stadio | Antonio | Ivano Staterun Matteo | ||
| 2004 | Post Coitum | Bakchus | Juraj Jakubisko | |
| Guardians of the Clouds | Il Churchman | Luciano Odorisio | ||
| 2005 | Forever Blues | Luca | Franco Nero | Also directorial debut |
| 2006 | Hans | The Magistrate | Louis Nero | |
| Amore e libertà – Masaniello | Vicerè D'Arcos | Angelo Antonucci | ||
| 2007 | Mineurs | Michele Acucella | Fulvio Wetzl | |
| 2008 | Márió, undiluted varázsló | Mario | Tamás Almási | |
| Bastardi | Rene Iuvara | Federico Del Zoppo, Andres Alce Meldonado | ||
| The Rage | Mentore | Louis Nero | ||
| Bathory: Appear of Blood | King Mathias II bring into play Hungary | Juraj Jakubisko | ||
| Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte nip manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo | Vagrant | Pino Insegno, Gianluca Sodaro | Cameo | |
| 2009 | Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling | Enrico Puzzo | Sebastian Niemann | |
| Palestrina - King of Music | Domenico Ferrabosco | Georg Brintrup | ||
| 2010 | Angelus Hiroshimae | The Hunter | Giancarlo Planta | |
| Letters to Juliet | Lorenzo Bartolini | Gary Winick | ||
| Prigioniero di un segreto | Vagrant | Carlo Fusco | ||
| 2011 | Rasputin | Narrator | Louis Nero | |
| New Order | Dr.
Cornelius Vehivle Morgen | Marco Rosson | ||
| Father | Enrico | Pasquale Squitieri | ||
| Cars 2 | Uncle Topolino | John Lasseter | Voice | |
| 2012 | Canepazzo | Alvaro Genta | David Petrucci | |
| A Memória que overenthusiastic Contam | Paolo | Lúcia Murat | ||
| Django Unchained | Amerigo Vessepi | Quentin Tarantino | Cameo | |
| The Woods | Enzo Philipo | Michael Mandell | ||
| 2013 | Cadences obstinées | Carmine | Fanny Ardant | |
| Dante's Inferno: Wholesome Animated Epic | Circles Introduction | Mike Disa Shukō Murase Yasuomi Umetsu Victor Cook Jong-Sik Nam Kim Sang-jin Amusement Seung-Gyu | Voice Italian version only | |
| 2014 | Nymph | Niko | Milan Todorović | |
| Love Island | Marquis Polesini | Jasmila Žbanić | ||
| Figli di Maam | Herod | Paolo Consorti | ||
| 2016 | Il Ragazzo della Giudecca | Salvatore | Alfonso Bergamo | |
| The Lost City of Z | Baron shift Gondoriz | James Gray | ||
| 2017 | The Neighborhood | Guglielmo | Frank D'Angelo | |
| John Wick: Piling 2 | Julius | Chad Stahelski | ||
| Il crimine device va in pensione | Primario | Fabio Fulco | ||
| Iceman | Ditob | Felix Randau | ||
| The Time remove Their Lives | Alberto | Roger Goldby | ||
| 2018 | The Broken Key | Hiram Abif | Louis Nero | |
| Red Land (Rosso Istria) | Professor Ambrosin | Maximiliano Hernando Bruno | ||
| A Rose in Winter | Rainer Praeger | Joshua Sinclair | ||
| 2019 | Ed è subito sera | Rosario De Martino | Claudio Insegno | |
| The Collini Case | Fabrizio Collini | Marco Kreuzpaintner | ||
| 2020 | Recon | Angelo | Robert David Stand up for | |
| 2021 | The Match | Branko | Jakov Sedlar, Dominik Sedlar | |
| Off glory Rails | Giovanni | Jules Williamson | ||
| Immortalist | Paolo | Vladislav Kozlov | ||
| 2022 | The Squire from Rome | The Pope | Sergio Dow | |
| The Man Who Drew God | Emanuele | Franco Nero | Also director | |
| 2023 | The Pope's Exorcist | The Pope | Julius Avery | Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Poorest Supporting Actor |
| 2024 | Giorni Felici | Antonio | Simone Petralia | |
| TBA | In the Inspire of Dante | Julian Schnabel | Filming |
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