Franco Nero

ActorProducerDirectorCrewProduction Nov 23 (age 84) San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 1962–2026 (64 year career)

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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 "ge…

Known For

Film

Django Unchained

Amerigo Vessepi

Film

John Wick: Chapter 2

Julius

Film

Die Hard 2

General Ramon Esperanza

Film

Letters to Juliet

Lorenzo

Film

Cars 2

Uncle Topolino (voice)

Film

The Pope's Exorcist

The Pope

Film

The Lost City of Z

Baron de Gondoriz

Film

Django

Filmography

Acting (257)

Movies (225)

Il Vecchio Terribile

2026

as Oste

In the Hand of Dante

as Don Lecco

The Estate

The Run

as Hunter

Titanus 1904

2024

as Self

Compagni d'arte

The Pope's Exorcist

as The Pope

Giorni felici

as Antonio

On Our Way

The Man Who Drew God

as Emanuele

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

2023

as Valentino's Spirit

The Man from Rome

as The Pope

Buon Lavoro

Off the Rails

as Giovanni

The Match

as Old Branko

We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

9.5

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

as Self - Actor

The Duel

Two Men Alone

as Himself

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

2021

as Self

The Dark Dance

as L'Impresario

Immortalist

as Paolo Spersoni

Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandfather

The Jester from Transylvania

as One-eye

Harmonie

Christmas in Rome

as Luigi Forlinghetti

6.6

Havana Kyrie

2019

as Vittorio Arditi De Bellis

Recon

as Angelo

The Collini Case

as Fabrizio Collini

A Rose in Winter

as Rainer Praeger

Ed è subito sera

Red Land

as Professor Ambrosin

John Wick: Chapter 2

as Julius

The Lost City of Z

as Baron de Gondoriz

Agony

as Carlo

The Neighborhood

as Guglielmo

Iceman

as Ditob

The Broken Key

as Hiram Abif

The Time of Their Lives

2017

as Alberto

5.0

Il crimine non va in pensione

2017

as il primario

5.6

Road to Ruin

2016

as Self

Along the River

2016

as Frank De Ville

Earth

2015

Road to Capri

2015

as Guido

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man

2015

as Himself

Killer Mermaid

2014

as Niko

4.3

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as Self - Actor

7.2

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

as Lui-même

Figli di Maam

Obsessive Rhythms

as Carmine

Love Island

as Marquis Polesini

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

2014

as Self

Istintobrass

2013

as Self

4.8

I Tarantiniani

2013

as Self

Handy

2013

as Frank The Black

10.0

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

2013

as Self

6.0

Memories They Told Me

as Paolo

Django Unchained

as Amerigo Vessepi

The Last Alchemist

as Felix the Alchemist

Crazy Dog

as Alvaro Genta

New Order

as Dr. Cornelius Van Morgen

3.1

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

2012

as Self

7.7

Cars 2

2011

as Uncle Topolino (voice)

6.2

Father

2011

as Enrico

Letters to Juliet

as Lorenzo

Rasputin

as Narratore

Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine

2010

as Augustinus (age 76)

5.1

Prigioniero di un segreto

2010

as Il barbone

Killing Is My Business, Honey

2009

as Enrico Puzzo

6.7

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

2009

Bathory: Countess of Blood

2008

as King Mathias

5.7

Bastardi

2008

as Rene Iuvara

La rabbia

2008

as Mentore

4.3

Mein Herz in Chile

2008

as Carlos Sanchez

Márió, a varázsló

2008

as Mario

4.0

A Night at the Grand Hotel

as Ferran Moreno

The Final Inquiry

as Caifa

Two Families

as Morandi

Mineurs

as Michele Acucella

The Holy Family

as Zachary

Giornata Nera

Amore e libertà - Masaniello

2006

as Vicerè

6.5

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

as Self

Hans

as Giudice/barbone

Forever Blues

as Luca

The Spaghetti West

2005

as Self

5.8

Summer Solstice

2005

as Lorenzo

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

2005

as Self

6.7

Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show

as Judge

Post Coitum

as Bakchus

Guardians of the Clouds

as Padre

Bad Inclination

as Il barbone

The Uncrowned Heart

as Bear's Trainer

Fumata blanca

2002

as Cardenal Tura

Ultimo stadio

2002

as Antonio

The Last Gunfighter

2002

as The pistolero

6.2

Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell

2002

as Giuseppe Mantaldo

The Crusaders

as Ibnazul

Sacra Corona

as Bishop Gellért

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

2001

as General Francini

4.5

In the Company of Compañeros

2001

as Self

Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle

2001

as Self

La ragion pura

2001

as Marito

2.0

Chimera

2001

as Imprenditore

Saint Paul

2000

as Gamaliel

6.9

Winds of Passion

2000

as Michele Giangrande

Uninvited

2000

as Ralph Barolo

3.5

Mirka

2000

as Il Sindaco

Li chiamarono... briganti!

1999

as Caporale Nerza

5.1

Il tesoro di Damasco

1998

as Andrea

The Versace Murder

1998

as Gianni Versace

2.4

Talk of Angels

1998

as Dr. Vicente Areavaga

David

as Natan

Bella Mafia

as Mario Domino

The Medal

as Ing. Ferrero

Desert of Fire

1997

as Marcel Duvivier

9.3

Rack Up

1997

as Jesus Barro

The Innocent Sleep

as Adolfo Cavani

The Conquest

as Árpád vezér

Io e il re

as Maggiore Ferri

Jonathan of the Bears

as Jonathan

The Dragon Ring

as Dragon King

Das Babylon Komplott

as Chris Lang

Der Fall Lucona

as Enzo Lombardi

Test of Memory

as Paul Herzog

Azzurro profondo

as Luca Morinari

From Time to Time

as Leonard De Vinci

Brothers and Sisters

as Franco

Amelia Lópes O'Neill

as Fernando

Gold

as Gabriele da Poppi

Touch and Die

as Aquani

Die Hard 2

as General Ramon Esperanza

7.0

Breath of Life

1990

as Angelo

A Double Victory

1989

as Saverio Pallucca

Run for Your Life

as Commissario

Young Toscanini

as Claudio Toscanini

Top Line

as Ted Angelo

Magdalene

as Janza

Race to Danger

as Francis, il marinaio

The Girl

as Johan (John) Berg

Sweet Country

as Paul

Django Strikes Again

as Django

Un altare per la madre

1986

as -

Devil's Crude

as Nick

The Repenter

as Falco

André schafft sie alle

1985

as Andre

Die Försterbuben

as Böhme

The Falcon

as Banović Strahinja

Grog

as Nicola Fanelli

Querelle

1982

as Lieutenant Seblon

6.6

Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames

1982

as John Reed

3.8

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

as John Reed

Kamikaze '89

as Weiss

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

as Self

Enter the Ninja

as Cole

The Salamander

as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci

5.3

The Man with Bogart's Face

as Hakim

The Blue-Eyed Bandit

as Renzo Dominici

Day of the Cobra

as Larry Stanziani

Mimi

as Guido

The Visitor

as Jesus Christ

Le rose di Danzica

as General Konrad von Der Berg

The Shark Hunter

1979

as Mike di Donato

4.1

Force 10 from Navarone

as Lescovar

The Pirate

as Baydr Al Fay

Hitch Hike

as Walter Mancini

Sahara Cross

as Jean Ballard

Submission

as Armand

21 Hours at Munich

as Issa

Keoma

as Keoma

Victory March

as Captain Asciutto

Cry, Onion!

as Onion Stark

Death Rite

as Sadry

How to Kill a Judge

as Giacomo Solaris

Smiling Maniacs

as Judge Dani

The Flower in His Mouth

1975

as Professore Michele Belcore

6.2

The Legend of Valentino

as Rudolph Valentino

Blood Brothers

as Nicola Bellizzi

Challenge to White Fang

as Jason Scott

The Last Four Days

as Walter Audisio

Street Law

as Carlo Antonelli

Redneck

as Mosquito

White Fang

as Jason Scott

High Crime

as Commissario Belli

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

1973

as Johnny Ears

4.9

The Assassination of Matteotti

as Giacomo Matteotti

Pope Joan

as Louis

The Harder They Come

as Django (archive footage)

6.5

The Monk

1972

as Ambrosio

5.4

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

1971

as Prince Dimitri Vassilovich Vladek Orlowsky

Vacation

as Osiride

The Fifth Cord

as Andrea Bild

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

1971

as Vanzi

6.7

Confessions of a Police Captain

1971

as Sostituto Procuratore Traini

Tristana

as Horacio

Compañeros

as Yodlaf Peterson

Dropout

as Bruno

The Fifth Day of Peace

1970

as Bruno Grauber

5.4

The Virgin and the Gypsy

1970

as The gypsy

2.1

Detective Belli

1969

as Commissario Stefano Belli

5.4

The Battle of Neretva

1969

as Capitano Michele Rossi

The Day of the Owl

as Captain Bellodi

The Mercenary

as Sergei Kowalski, The Polish

6.9

Sardinia Kidnapped

1968

as Gavino

5.6

A Quiet Place in the Country

as Leonardo Ferri

Camelot

as Lancelot Du Lac

Man, Pride and Vengeance

as José

Django

as Django

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966

as Abel

7.3

The Wild, Wild Planet

as Lt. Jake

Texas, Adios

as Burt Sullivan

Massacre Time

as Tom Corbett

The Third Eye

as Mino Alberti (as Frank Nero)

The Hired Killer

as Tony Lo Bello

War of the Planets

as Lt. Jake Jacowitx

I Knew Her Well

as Italo - The garage attendant

The Tramplers

as Charley Garvey

La Celestina P… R…

as Fabrizio

Italian Engagement

Un delitto

Scorched Skin

The Temptation Of Gracie

Roma elastica

Django Lives!

as Django

La battaglia di Gorthene

Television (32)

Django

as Reverend

Emigratis

as Self

Delicious

as Joe Benelli

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

2010

as Augustine of Hippo

7.0

Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons

2008

as Max Freeman

7.5

Mein Herz in Chile

2008

as Carlos Sanchez

Il sangue e la rosa

2008

as Conte Uberto Mancini

7.0

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

2007

as Caifa

5.0

Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love

2005

Through the Night with...

2002

as Self

8.0

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

2002

as Fashion Billionaire

2.3

Ulisse - The pleasure of discovery

2001

as Self

8.9

La voce del sangue

2001

as Antonio Castaldi

The Crusaders

2001

as Ibnazul

Saint Paul

2000

as Gamaliel

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Roberto Distasio

Painted Lady

as Robert Tassi

Davide

as Nathan

David

1997

as Nathan

Desert of Fire

1997

as Marcel Duvivier

10.0

The Return of Sandokan

as Yogi Azim

Viva el lunes

as Self

Desideria e l'anello del drago

as Dragon King

Young Catherine

as Count Vorontsov

I promessi sposi

as fra Cristoforo

Blaues Blut

as Sandro Castellani

The Last Days of Pompeii

as Arbaces

The Hitchhiker

as Dr. Peter Milne

Na sowas!

as Self

Red Bells

as John Reed

Le rose di Danzica

1981

as Il generale Konrad Von Den Berg

Der große Preis

1974

as Self

6.0

Crew (17)

Movies (17)

The Estate

2025

Executive Producer

The Man Who Drew God

Director

The Mystery of Dante

Executive Producer

Django Unchained

Thanks

La rabbia

Executive Producer

La rabbia

Producer

Márió, a varázsló

Co-Producer

Forever Blues

Director

Forever Blues

2005

Producer

Forever Blues

2005

Writer

Uninvited

2000

Producer

3.5

Jonathan of the Bears

1995

Producer

5.8

Jonathan of the Bears

Story

The Shark Hunter

Co-Producer

Vacation

Producer

Dropout

Co-Producer

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966

Still Photographer

7.3