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Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Birthday: 1941-11-23 | Place of Birth: San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Franco Nero (born 23 November 1941) is an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles of the title character in Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966), Sir Lancelot in Joshua Logan's Camelot (1967), Horacio in Luis Buñuel's Tristana (1970), the title character in Enzo G. Castellari's Keoma (1976), Captain Nikolai Lescovar/Colonel von Ingorslebon in Guy Hamilton's Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Cole in Menahem Golan's Enter the Ninja(1981), his reprising role again as the title character in Nello Rossatti's Django Strikes Again (1987), General Ramon Esperanza in Renny Harlin's Die Hard 2 (1990), Gianni Versace in Menahem Golan's The Versace Murder (1998), General Francini in Brian Trenchard-Smith's Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001) and Lorenzo Bartolini in Gary Winick's 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 inQuentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Titanus 1904

as    Self

2023
Giorni Felici

as    Antonio

2023
The Man Who Drew God

as    Emanuele

2023
The Man from Rome

as    The Pope

2023
The Pope's Exorcist

as    The Pope

2022
Silent Life

as    Spirit

2021
Off the Rails

as    Giovanni

2021
Two Men Alone

as    Himself

2021
The Match

as    Old Branko

2021
2020
Recon

as    Angelo

2020
Entree Des Artists

as    Henry's Grandfather

2020
The Jester from Transylvania

as    One-eye

2020
Immortalist

as    Paolo Spersoni

2020
A Rose in Winter

as    Rainer Praeger

2019
Iceman

as    Ditob

2019
The Collini Case

as    Fabrizio Collini

2019
Christmas in Rome

as    Luigi Forlinghetti

2019
Havana Kyrie

as    Vittorio Arditi De Bellis

2018
Red Land

as    Professor Ambrosin

2017
The Time of Their Lives

as    Alberto

2017
The Lost City of Z

as    Baron de Gondoriz

2017
The Neighborhood

as    Guglielmo

2017
The Broken Key

as    Hiram Abif

2017
John Wick: Chapter 2

as    Julius