Franco Nero
AKA: Frank Black
Birthday: 1941-11-23
Birthplace: San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 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.
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Filmography
Character: General Ramon Esperanza
Character: Nicola Bellizzi
Character: Capitani Michele Rossi
Character: Captain Asciutto
Character: Yodlaf Peterson
Character: Walter Audisio
Character: Nicola Fanelli
Character: Renzo Dominici
Character: Larry Stanziani
Character: Giacomo Matteotti
Character: Augustinus (age 76)
Character: Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
Character: Uncle Topolino (voice)
Character: Commissario Stefano Belli
Character: Amerigo Vessepi
Character: Lancelot Du Lac
Character: Carlo Antonelli
Character: Walter Mancini
Character: Dr. Vicente Areavaga
Character: Leonardo Ferri
Character: Caporale Nerza
Character: Captain Bellodi
Character: Mike di Donato
Character: Commissario Belli
Character: Lt. Jake Jacowitx
Character: Professore Michele Belcore
Character: Johan (John) Berg
Character: Carlos Sanchez
Character: Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
Character: Sostituto Procuratore Traini
Character: Giacomo Solaris
Character: Charley Garvey
Character: Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky
Character: Gabriele da Poppi
Character: Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen
Character: Banović Strahinja
Character: Felix the Alchemist
Character: Giuseppe Mantaldo
Character: Bishop Gellért
Character: Rudolph Valentino
Character: Michele Acucella
Character: Italo - The garage attendant
Character: Marquis Polesini
Character: General Konrad von Der Berg
Character: Claudio Toscanini
Character: Baron de Gondoriz
Character: Francis, il marinaio
Character: Gianni Versace
Character: Bear's Trainer
Character: Rainer Praeger
Character: Professor Ambrosin
Character: Fabrizio Collini
Character: Luigi Forlinghetti
Character: Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)
Character: Lieutenant Seblon
Character: Vittorio Arditi De Bellis
Character: Paolo Spersoni
Character: Giudice/barbone
Character: Marcel Duvivier
Character: Maggiore Ferri
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Frank De Ville
Character: Django (archive footage)
Character: Saverio Pallucca
Character: Henry's Grandfather
Character: Frank The Black