Franco Nero
| Franco Nero | |
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Franco Nero, August 2008
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| Born |
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero 23 November 1941 San Prospero Parmense, Parma, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Spouse(s) | Vanessa Redgrave (m. 2006) |
| Children | 2; including Carlo |
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), better known by his stage name Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. He is best known for his breakthrough role as the title character in Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), a role that he reprised in Nello Rossati's Django Strikes Again (1987).
Since then, he has performed leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films, including The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), and Letters to Juliet (2010). He also played the narrator in the film Rasputin (2010), directed by Louis Nero, and voiced the character of Uncle Topolino in the animated film Cars 2 (2011) directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Brad Lewis. In 2012, Nero made a cameo appearance in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
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