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Franco Nero
Known for: ActingFrancesco 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 97
John Wick: Chapter 2
+5
as Julius 
Cars 2
+2
as Uncle Topolino (voice) 
Django Unchained
+9
as Amerigo Vessepi 
The Lost City of Z
+5
as Baron de Gondoriz 
Die Hard 2
+2
as General Ramon Esperanza 
The Pope's Exorcist
+6
as The Pope 
In the Hand of Dante
as Don Lecco (86) 
Letters to Juliet
+8
as Lorenzo 
Iceman
+2
as Ditob 
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Self - Actor 
Keoma
+4
as Keoma 
Django
+4
as Django 
The Collini Case
+3
as Fabrizio Collini 
Force 10 from Navarone
+2
as Lescovar 
Saint Paul
as Gamaliel 
Compañeros
as Yodlaf Peterson 
Detective Belli
as Commissario Stefano Belli 
David
as Nathan 
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
as Caifa 
The Mercenary
as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish 
Querelle
as Lieutenant Seblon 
Istintobrass
as Self 
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
as Self - Actor 
The Salamander
as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci 
I Knew Her Well
as Italo - The garage attendant 
The Final Inquiry
as Caifa 
Bathory: Countess of Blood
as King Mathias 
David
as Natan 
The Man from Rome
+2
as The Pope 
White Fang
as Jason Scott 
Hitch Hike
+1
as Walter Mancini 
The Battle of Neretva
as Capitano Michele Rossi 
Painted Lady
as Robert Tassi 
The Tramplers
as Charley Garvey 
Killer Mermaid
as Niko 
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
as John Reed 
Camelot
+3
as Lancelot Du Lac 
Tristana
as Horacio 
The Fifth Cord
+4
as Andrea Bild 
Challenge to White Fang
as Jason Scott 
Rasputin
as Narratore 
The Hired Killer
as Tony Lo Bello 
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
as Augustinus (age 76) 
The Match
as Old Branko 
High Crime
as Commissario Belli 
The Crusaders
as Ibnazul 
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
+2
as General Francini 
Django Strikes Again
as Django 
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
as Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky 
Day of the Cobra
as Larry Stanziani 
A Quiet Place in the Country
as Leonardo Ferri 
The Visitor
+2
as Jesus Christ 
The Day of the Owl
+4
as Captain Bellodi 
The Fifth Day of Peace
as Bruno Grauber 
Recon
+6
as Angelo 
The Man Who Drew God
as Emanuele 
Mimi
as Guido 
Submission
as Armand 
Off the Rails
+6
as Giovanni 
Texas, Adios
+2
as Burt Sullivan 
Cry, Onion!
as Onion Stark 
Massacre Time
+2
as Tom Corbett 
Christmas in Rome
as Luigi Forlinghetti 
21 Hours at Munich
as Issa 
The Time of Their Lives
as Alberto 
The Last Four Days
as Walter Audisio 
Death Rite
as Sadry 
Confessions of a Police Captain
as Sostituto Procuratore Traini 
How to Kill a Judge
+3
as Giacomo Solaris 
The Shark Hunter
as Mike di Donato 
The Broken Key
as Hiram Abif 
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
+2
as Vanzi 
Man, Pride and Vengeance
as José 
Sardinia Kidnapped
as Gavino 
A Rose in Winter
as Rainer Praeger 
War of the Planets
as Lt. Jake Jacowitx 
Killing Is My Business, Honey
as Enrico Puzzo 
The Jester from Transylvania
as One-eye 
The Legend of Valentino
as Rudolph Valentino 
Fumata blanca
as Cardenal Tura 
The Neighborhood
as Guglielmo 
Talk of Angels
as Dr. Vicente Areavaga 
The Wild, Wild Planet
as Lt. Jake 
Street Law
as Carlo Antonelli 
Father
as Enrico 
Enter the Ninja
as Cole 
Red Land
as Professor Ambrosin 
Kamikaze '89
+4
as Weiss 
New Order
as Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen 
La rabbia
as Mentore 
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
as John Reed