Yahoo: Franco Nero receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Franco Nero
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, 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.
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entertainment · Italian actor (born 1941) · film actor · television actor · film director · film producer · screenwriter · actor · also Franco Nero, Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, Francesco Sparanero, Nero
Born 23 November 1941 · Q311716
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Franco Nero's Strangest Spaghetti Western Is Streaming For Free
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Variety: Original ‘Django’ Star Franco Nero to Be Honored by Filming Italy — Los Angeles Festival in Tandem With Hollywood Walk of Fame Tribute
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2024· 1 entry
Deadline.com: Dario Argento & Franco Nero Join Interactive Horror-Thriller ‘The Run’
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2021· 1 entry
AV Club: Franco Nero heroically volunteers to spearhead the Kevin Spacey redemption campaign
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2020· 1 entry
Along with Sherilyn Fenn, Paul Rodriguez, Aries Spears and Jeff DuJardin, directed by Vlad Kozlov
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2016· 1 entry
And 2017, he interpreted Gabriele Tinti's poetry, giving voice to the masterpieces in the National Roman Museum
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Time Machine Award (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Nero made a cameo appearance in the film Django Unchained in one scene alongside Jamie Foxx, who stars as Django Freeman in the film
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2011· 2 entries
Digital Spy: Franco Nero to guest star in 'Law & Order: SVU'
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Appeared as a guest star on the season 13 premiere episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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2010· 1 entry
Nero appeared in the film Letters to Juliet with Redgrave
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2009· 1 entry
Nero played an eccentric author called "Mario Puzzo" in Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling ("Murder is my trade, darling", Italian title "Tesoro, sono un killer")
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2006· 1 entry
And are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero (b
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1996· 1 entry
At a film Festival and then 1999 with the film Buck and the Magic Bracelet by Tonino Ricci
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1994· 1 entry
Nero walked his future stepdaughter Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) down the aisle when she married actor Liam Neeson
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1992).
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1983· 2 entries
In 1983, he had a second son, Frank Sparanero (also known as Frankie Nero or Frank Nero Jr).
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Had a second son, Frank Sparanero (also known as Frankie Nero or Frank Nero Jr)
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1969· 2 entries
Had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero (known professionally as Carlo Gabriel Nero), a screenwriter and director
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In 1969, they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero (known professionally as Carlo Gabriel Nero), a screenwriter and director.
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1967· 1 entry
Appeared in Camelot as Lancelot, where Nero met his longtime romantic partner, and later his wife, Vanessa Redgrave
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1966· 1 entry
From Django he went on to appear in eight more films released that year including Texas, Adios (1966) and Massacre Time
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-11-23.
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