Franco Nero

Italian actor (born 1941)

  • Fame61.4
  • Momentum2.6
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  • Age
    85
    Born 1941
  • Known for
    Cars 2
    2011
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

He dragged a coffin through the mud in Django and became the face of Italian Westerns worldwide — then spent six decades proving he could do just about anything else.

Biography

About

Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero was born 23 November 1941 and took the name Franco Nero into a film industry exploding with genre. Django in 1966 made him an icon overnight, the coffin-dragging gunslinger who defined the Spaghetti Western's brutal style. Through the '60s and '70s he moved fluidly across Italy's genre boom — polizieschi, gialli, Westerns — while also landing Hollywood: Camelot in 1967, where he met Vanessa Redgrave, began a relationship that lasted decades before they married in 2006, and fathered actor Carlo Gabriel Nero in 1969. The roles kept coming in wild variety: Fo…

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  • Time Machine Award
  • Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • David di Donatello for Best Actor
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Historical26.9
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