Franco Nero

Acting · Born 1941-11-23 in San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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…

Filmography

• Die Hard 2 as General Ramon Esperanza
• The Bible: In the Beginning... as Abel
• Django as Django
• Tristana as Horacio
• Django Unchained as Amerigo Vessepi
• In the Hand of Dante as Don Lecco
• John Wick: Chapter 2 as Julius
• The Collini Case as Fabrizio Collini
• Letters to Juliet as Lorenzo
• Touch and Die as Aquani

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Roberto Distasio
• Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery as Self
• Viva el lunes as Self
• The Hitchhiker as Dr. Peter Milne
• Delicious as Joe Benelli
• Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons as Max Freeman
• Il sangue e la rosa as Conte Uberto Mancini
• Painted Lady as Robert Tassi
• Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften as Fashion Billionaire
• Emigratis as Self