Franco Nero

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Nov 23, 1941 (83 years old)

Franco Nero

Known For

On Our Way
1h 30m
Movie 2023

On Our Way

Up-and-coming Henry struggles to write a debut feature “On Our Way”. Confronted by memories from early childhood and boyhood, he revisits a painful past when both his parents were alive. Henry encounters a gorgeous muse Rosemary, who flirts with no kissing allowed and inspires him to create something meaningful together.

The Pope's Exorcist
1h 43m
Movie 2023

The Pope's Exorcist

Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

The Man Who Drew God
1h 40m
Movie 2023

The Man Who Drew God

The rise and fall of a blind artist who has the extraordinary gift of making true-to-life portraits just by listening to human voices, and of becoming a TV-junk star. A fable on the need to rediscover the miraculous power of dignity in a world where media's noise has solved the problem of man's imperfection simply by removing the problem itself.

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
1h 48m
Movie 2022

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.

The Man from Rome
1h 56m
Movie 2022

The Man from Rome

A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of External Affairs, an arm of the Vatican intelligence, is dispatched to investigate. The message of the hacker concerns a crumbling 17th century Baroque church in the heart of Seville that apparently "kills to defend itself".

The Duel
Movie 2021

The Duel

A documentary about Christopher Dennis, who dressed as Superman and posed for photographs on Hollywood Boulevard for twenty years.

We Are Cinema
1h 11m
Movie 2021

We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
1h 18m
Movie 2021

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

Biography

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 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), 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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