Franco Nero
Franco Nero (* 23. November 1941 as Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero in Modena ) is an Italian actor , who especially with his representation of FIG Django in spaghetti westerns famous nationally. He also took part in various films about the Italian mafia and played the role of the public prosecutor in numerous police films in the 1970s. He is also one of the few western actors who were hired for film productions in the then Eastern Bloc countries . He has worked under many well-known directors and has played in over 200 productions.
life and work
The son of a policeman was born as Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero, a small municipality in the province of Modena , part of the Emilia-Romagna region. He then spent his childhood in Parma , where he discovered his passion for the theater stage and acting as a teenager. He organized school performances and later directed an amateur theater as a military service before going to Milan to begin a degree in economics , which he financed as a nightclub singer but never finished. Sparanero later worked as an accountant in Milan, although his love was still for film.
During a visit to the Roman Cinecittà studios, he met the directors Carlo Lizzani , Antonio Pietrangeli and John Huston , who encouraged him in his acting ambitions and later offered him his first film roles. However, he made his film debut in 1963 in Alfredo Gianetti's film The Borrowed Girl . He made his breakthrough in 1966 in the role of the "ice cold and lonely avenger" Django in Sergio Corbucci 's film of the same name. His portrayal made him known internationally; Countless film offers followed. With Sergio Corbucci he shot the spaghetti westerns Mercenario - The Feared (The Feared Two) and Zwei Companeros (Let's kill, Companeros) . In order to escape the genre of the spaghetti westerns and to become a recognized actor, he also worked in science fiction films, dramas and comedies.
"[...] I had to make a decision. I could be a star and maybe make a lot of money, or I could keep switching roles and have a more interesting - and longer - career. "
For his portrayal of Lancelot du Lac in the movie version of the Broadway - musicals Camelot beside his later longtime girlfriend Vanessa Redgrave Nero received a Golden Globe nomination as best young actor .
In Italy, it is primarily through films about the Mafia by Damiano Damiani known. For example, Nero starred in The Clan That Walled Up Its Enemies Alive , The case has been set: Forget it, The day of the owl / Don Mariano knows nothing and The terror directs / Why did prosecutor Traini have to die? With. In these films, Nero always plays a northern Italian who is surprised to see how far Sicilian society has been infiltrated by the mafia. In the films of Pasquale Squitieri The Denouncer and The Revenge of the Camorra / Law of the Outlaws this issue is also addressed.
He often referred to Enzo G. Castellari as his favorite director , with whom he did not shoot the films A Citizen Defends himself, The Return of the Cobra, Jungle Django, Keoma and the highly acclaimed Dead Witnesses sing .
He also gained fame through the cinematic shooting of Mussolini in the film Mussolini - The Last Days by Carlo Lizzani and his participation in Lucio Fulci's film adaptation of Jack London - the novel Wolfsblut . In addition to his role as a sadistic officer in Marco Bellocchio's military drama Triumphmarsch - Il capitano the sadist , Nero's collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Querelle - A Pact with the Devil and Kamikaze 1989 are of particular interest. At the side of Catherine Deneuve , Nero starred in Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning film Tristana .
Nero is one of the few actors from a western country who has been able to act in a wide variety of prestige film projects in former communist countries. For example, Nero played Mexico in Flames and 10 Days that Shook the World in Sergei Bondarchuk's films and the hero Banović Strahinja in the Serbian national epic The Black Falcon . His roles as a terrorist at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the film Die 21 Stunden von München, as well as his role as a sadistic husband in the drama If you Krepierst, I live , which has influenced numerous American film productions to this day , also attracted attention .
From 1967 to 1972 Nero was in a relationship with British actress Vanessa Redgrave, and they have been married since December 2006. They have their son Carlo Gabriel Nero (* 1969).
Nero recorded the title Insciallah - Peace in the World for UNICEF with the Italian singer Roby Vandalo in 1991 . Jamaican reggae producer Joe Gibbs recorded a track called Franco Nero .
In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.
Filmography (selection)
cinemamovies
- 1962: Pelle viva - Director: Giuseppe Fina
- 1963: The Borrowed Girl (La ragazza in prestito) - Director: Alfredo Giannetti
- 1964: La Celestina P… R… - Director: Carlo Lizzani
- 1965: I knew her well (Io la conoscevo bene)
- 1965: The Bible (In the Beginning ...)
- 1965: Deadly Mists (I diafanoidi vengono da Marte) - Director: Antonio Margheriti
- 1965: Spaceship Alpha - The Planet of the Damned (I criminali della galassia) - Director: Antonio Margheriti
- 1966: Django (Django)
- 1966: Django - His hymn book was the Colt (Tempo di massacro)
- 1966: Django, the avenger (Texas, addio)
- 1966: The Third Eye (Il terzo occhio)
- 1966: My name is John Harris (Tecnica di un omicidio) - Director: Franco Prosperi
- 1966: The Trampler (Gli uomini dal passo pesante)
- 1967: Camelot - At the court of King Arthur (Camelot)
- 1967: With Django came death (L'uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta)
- 1968: The Feared Two (Il mercenario)
- 1968: The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta)
- 1968: The Mafia Story (Sequestro di persona) - Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi
- 1969: The Battle of the Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi)
- 1969: Die Klette (Un detective) - Director: Romolo Guerrieri
- 1969: The Cursed House (Un tranquillo posto di campagna) - Director: Elio Petri
- 1969: God with Us - Director: Giuliano Montaldo
- 1970: The Virgin and the Gypsy - Director: Christopher Miles
- 1970: Tristana
- 1970: Two companeros (¡Vamos a matar, compañeros!)
- 1971: The clan that walled up its enemies alive (Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica)
- 1971: The proceedings are over: Forget it (L'istruttoria è chiusa: dimentichi) - Director: Damiano Damiani
- 1971: A Black Day for the Aries (Giornata nera per l'ariete) - Director: Luigi Bazzoni
- 1971: Two wild companeros (Viva la muerte ... tua!)
- 1972: A Song of Murder and Manslaughter (Los Amigos)
- 1972: The Monk and the Women (Le moine) - Director: Adonis Kyrou
- 1972: Pope Joan (Pope Joan) - Director: Michael Anderson
- 1973: Bloodlust (Squadra volante uccideteli… senza ragione)
- 1973: Wolfsblut (Zanna bianca)
- 1973: Dead witnesses do not sing (La polizia incrimina la legge assolve)
- 1973: The Revenge of the Camorra (I guappi) - Director: Pasquale Squitieri
- 1973: The Assassination of Matteotti (Il delitto Matteotti) - Director: Florestano Vancini
- 1974: The devil's canyon of the wild wolves (Il ritorno di Zanna Bianca)
- 1974: Mussolini - The Last Days (Mussolini: ultimo atto)
- 1974: Why did the public prosecutor Traini have to die (Perché si uccide un magistrato?) - Director: Damiano Damiani
- 1974: A man strikes back (Il cittadino si ribella)
- 1975: An honorable company (Gente di rispetto) - Director: Luigi Zampa
- 1975: Onion Jack cleans up (Cipolla Colt)
- 1976: Keoma - Director: Enzo G. Castellari
- 1976: The Guilty With Clean Hands (Les magiciens) - Director: Claude Chabrol
- 1976: Triumphmarsch (Marcia trionfale) - Director: Marco Bellocchio
- 1977: Sahara Cross - duel in the desert (Sahara Cross) - directed by Tonino Valerii
- 1977: If you die, I'll live! (Autostop rosso sangue)
- 1978: The Wild Pile of Navarone (Force 10 from Navarone)
- 1979: The Extra-Terrestrial (The Visitor) - Director: Giulio Paradisi
- 1979: Jungle Django - Director: Enzo G. Castellari
- 1979: Rosen von Danzig (Le rose di Danzica) (first a feature film, then a TV miniseries)
- 1980: Day of the Cobra (Il giorno del Cobra)
- 1980: The bandit with the black and blue eyes (Il bandito dagli occhi azzurri)
- 1980: The Man with Bogart's Face (The Man with Bogart's Face)
- 1981: Enter the Ninja ( Ninja, the Killer Machine )
- 1981: Keyword: Salamander (The Salamander) - Director: Peter Zinner
- 1981: The Falcon (Banovic Strahinja) - Director: Vatroslav Mimica
- 1982: Grog - Director: Francesco Laudadio
- 1982: Querelle
- 1982: Mexico in Flames (Krasnye kolokola) - Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
- 1982: 10 Days That Shook the World (Krasnye kolokola II) - Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
- 1982: Kamikaze 1989
- 1983: Krasnye kolokola, film vtoroy - Ya videl rozhdenie novogo mira
- 1984: André manages them all
- 1985: The Denunciator (Il pentito) - Director: Pasquale Squitieri
- 1986: The Girl - Dangerous Girl (The Girl) - Director: Arne Mattsson
- 1986: Decision in Cartagena (Tre giorni ai tropici) - Director: Tommaso Dazzi
- 1986: Sweet Country - Director: Michael Cacoyannis
- 1987: Django's return (Django 2: il grande ritorno)
- 1988: Run for Your Life (Run for Your Life) - Director: Terence Young
- 1988: Top Line - The Secret of the Aztec Mountain (Top Line)
- 1989: Magdalene - Director: Monica Teuber
- 1990: Die Hard 2: Die Harder
- 1991: Danger to life if touched (Touch and Die) - Director: Piernico Solinas
- 1992: Crimson Dawn
- 1992: From Time to Time
- 1992: Zoloto
- 1993: The Lucona case
- 1993: Revenge of the White Indian (Jonathan degli orsi)
- 1994: Nemici intimi
- 1994: The Dragon's Ring
- 1995: Delphin Girl (The Dolphin Girl) - Director: Filippo De Luigi
- 1996: Honfoglalás - home conquest
- 1996: The Innocent Sleep - Director: Scott Michell
- 1996: Cue Master - The Death Blow (Il tocco: la sfida) - Director: Enrico Coletti
- 1996: The return of the Sandokan
- 1997: La medaglia
- 1997: Il tocco: la sfida
- 1998: Gianni Versace - The Versace Murder - directed by Menahem Golan
- 1998: Talk of Angels
- 1999: Brigands
- 1999: Uninvited
- 2000: Crusader 3 - The King's Crown (Sacra Corona) - Director: Gábor Koltay
- 2000: Mirka
- 2000: Winds of Passion
- 2001. Chimera
- 2001: Sacra Corona
- 2001: Megiddo: The End of the World (Megiddo: Omega Code 2) - Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
- 2002: Ultimo stadio
- 2002: White Smoke
- 2002: L'ultimo pistolero
- 2003: Cattive inclinazioni
- 2004: Post coitum
- 2004: Guardiani delle nuvole
- 2005: Forever Blues
- 2006: Hans
- 2006: Amore e libertà - Masaniello
- 2007: Bathory
- 2007: Miners
- 2007: Two Families
- 2008: Ti stramo
- 2008: La rabbia
- 2008: Bastardi
- 2008: Una storia di lupi
- 2008: Márió, a varázsló
- 2009: murder is my business, darling
- 2009: Lullaby
- 2010: Prigioniero di un segreto
- 2010: Letters to Julia (Letters to Juliet)
- 2010: Rasputin
- 2011: Cars 2 (original voice of Uncle Topolino)
- 2012: Django Unchained
- 2012: The Woods
- 2014: Nymph - Mysterious. Seductive. Fatal.
- 2016: The Sunken City Z (The Lost City of Z)
- 2017: John Wick: Chapter 2 (John Wick: Chapter 2)
- 2017: The Neighborhood
- 2017: The Ice Man
- 2019: The Collini case
Television productions
- 1975: The Legend of Valentino
- 1976: The 21 Hours of Munich (21 Hours at Munich)
- 1978: The Pirate (The Pirate) - Director: Ken Annakin
- 1979: Rosen von Danzig (Le rose di Danzica) (first feature film, then TV miniseries)
- 1983: Wagner - The life and work of Richard Wagner (Wagner) (series)
- 1983: Banović Strahinja
- 1984: The Last Days of Pompeii (The Last Days of Pompeii)
- 1984: Die Försterbuben - Director: Peter Patzak
- 1985: The scream of the pelican (Un marinaio e mezzo) - directed by Tommaso Dazzi
- 1988: Windmills of the Gods - Director: Lee Philips
- 1989: The betrothed (I promessi sposi) (TV miniseries)
- 1990: Blue Blood (TV Series)
- 1991: Young Catherine (Young Catherine)
- 1993: The Babylon Plot - Director: Peter Patzak
- 1994: The Ring of the Dragon (Desideria e l'anello del drago)
- 1996: The Return of Sandokan (Il ritorno di Sandokan) - Director: Enzo G. Castellari
- 1997: Princess Amina (Deserto di fuoco) - Director: Enzo G. Castellari
- 1997: The Bible - David (David)
- 1998: Il tesoro di Damasco (TV miniseries)
- 1999: La voce del sangue
- 2000: The Bible - Paul (San Paolo)
- 2001: The Crusaders (Crociati)
- 2002: The eighth deadly sin: Tuscany carousel
- 2002: love, lies, passions
- 2003: Heart Without a Crown - Director: Peter Patzak
- 2005: Rosamunde Pilcher: Magic of Love (Summer Solstice)
- 2006–2008: Quelli che… il calcio (TV series, two episodes)
- 2007: The Prince and the Girl
- 2008: My heart in Chile
- 2009: Palestrina - Prince of Music
- 2009-2010: Augustine
- 2011: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (US TV series, one episode)
Discography
- 1985: Cambierà, with his son Carlo Sparanero
- 1991: Insciallah - Peace in the World, with Roby Vandalo for Unicef
Awards
- 1968: David di Donatello - Best Actor for The Day of the Owl
- 2008: DIVA Award - induction into the Hall of Fame
literature
- Michael Striss: Grace speaks God - Amen my Colt. Motifs, symbolism and religious references in the Spaghetti Western. Büchner-Verlag, Marburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96317-123-9 .
Web links
- Franco Nero in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Overview of Nero's work on buio-omega.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b mdr.de ( Memento from August 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), April 3, 2003
- ↑ prisma-online.de
- ^ Franco Nero. In: IMDb . Retrieved on September 23, 2010 (English): “Original: […] I had to make a choice. I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career. "
- ↑ moz.de ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) November 22, 2006
- ↑ of 2017 ". accessed on June 30, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nero, Franco |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sparanero, Francesco |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Prospero near Modena |