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Franco Nero
Sign in to saveAlso known as Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, Francesco Sparanero
Italian actor (born 1941)
OverviewAI-generated
Franco Nero is a pseudonym for an individual born on November 23, 1941. Their professional career began in 1962. MusicBrainz classifies the subject as a group from GB. The name is associated with the ska genre, specifically traditional ska, and has been tagged with USA and 10s.
In terms of written works, Open Library lists one title, *Django and the Others*. Crossref records five works. The subject has 193 listeners and a playcount of 949 on Last.fm. Additionally, the name is referenced by 464 other encyclopedia articles in the Vinony graph.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giuseppe
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- San Prospero Parmense
- Spouse
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Genre
- Western
- Image
- Franco Nero, 36th Fajr International Film Festival (86250) (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Franco Nero
- name in native language
- Franco Nero
- date of birth
- 1941-11-23
- birth name
- Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- pseudonym
- Franco Nero
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Encyclopedic overview
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. 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 productions.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including polizieschi, 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 (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), and The Pope's Exorcist (2023).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Franco Nero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.