Franco Nero
Italian actor (born 1941)
- Fame61.4
- Momentum2.6
- Italy rank#225
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- Fame61.4
- Momentum2.6
- Italy rank#225
- Actors rank#218
- Wikipedia91.8K
Born 1941 · age 85Italy
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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.
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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
Source confidence65.0
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