Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero born 23 November 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 genre trends including poliziotteschi gialli and Spaghetti Westerns His bestknown 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 HitchHike 1977 Force 10 from Navarone 1978 Enter the Ninja 1981 Die Hard 2 1990 Letters to Juliet 2010 Cars 2 2011 and John Wick Chapter 2 2017 Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave which began during the filming of Camelot They were married in 2006 and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero Description above from the Wikipedia article Franco Nero licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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