Franco Nero

Biography

Blue-eyed and well-built Italian actor in international cinema, Franco Nero, was a painting photographer when he was discovered as an actor by director 'John Huston , etc.

At the beginning of the 80s, he also began producing, writing and directing.

Between films, he participates in various theatrical events.

Apart from his cinematographic work, Nero also works for charitable organizations.

Over the last 45 years, he has been a benefactor of the Don Bosco orphanage in Tivoli.

He has received many awards and, in 1992 for his artistic merits, a knighthood of the Italian Republic was bestowed on him by the President of Italy.

In 2011, he was honored by Brunel University of London with the honorary degree of doctor of Letters honoris causa and, in Toronto, with a star on the Walk of Fame.

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Country: Italy
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Parma
Birth date: 23 November 1941
Nationality: Italian

Father, with Vanessa Redgrave , of Carlo Gabriel Nero.
His luggage always includes a suitcase full with medicines.
Gave away Natasha Richardson at her wedding to Liam Neeson.
Stepfather of Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson.
Brother-in-law of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave.
Son-in-law of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
His appearance with wife-to-be Vanessa Redgrave in Uninvited , marked the only time the couple were directed by their only son Carlo Gabriel Nero.
A popular (though incorrect) urban legend in Europe is that Sergio Corbucci discovered Nero for the leading role of Django while the latter was working the pumps at a gas station. Nero had, in fact, appeared in several films (though never in a leading role) before he was cast.
In December 1987, a 26-year-old Colombian woman named Mauricia Mena filed a paternity suit against Nero claiming the actor was the father of her three-week old son. Nero admitted being friends with Mena, a cook with the family where he was staying in Cartagena while filming Django 2 - Il grande ritorno , but denied they had a sexual relationship.
Dated Catherine Deneuve , Goldie Hawn and Ursula Andress in the seventies.

[on his two-month stint at acting school] They wanted to teach me to,act. But to act is natural.
I am the busiest actor. Why?

Movies

Wisdom for Heroes
2022
L'uomo che disegnò Dio
2021
Immortalist
2020
The Jester from Transylvania
2020
La Danza Nera
2020
Havana Kyrie
2020
Ed è subito sera
2019
Unforgettable
2017
Julia Banks is being questioned by a detective in the murder of her psychotic ex-boyfriend, Michael.
Death of the Sheik
2017
Hollywood, the year is 1926.
Calibro 10 - Decalogo Criminale
2017
Silent Life
2016
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.
Inferno by Dante
2016
Dante's journey through the worst of the afterlife, Inferno..
Keoma Rises
2016
Il Ragazzo Della Giudecca
2016
The life of singer Carmelo Zappulla is disrupted by the testimony of a repentant who accuses him of being involved in a murder.
The Killers
2016
Resurrecting Doug Dunning
2015
Douglas "Doug" Dunning has been an established character actor for decades.
Django Lives!
2015
The renowned gunslinger fends off racism in 1914 America.
The Kid
2015
His mother has left and Gonzalo doesn't know why.
Silent Life
2015
Prairie Bones
2014
Surviving an unthinkable tragedy tests a young couple's hope and endurance in a hostile wilderness..
Love Island
2014
Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter.
Black Bishop
2014
A Computer security officer of a major World Bank, duped by a former ex-colleague, finds himself involved in an illegal financial speculations worldwide, becoming the target of a manhunt..
Killer Mermaid
2014
Two American girls travel to Montenegro on vacation to visit an old friend.
Figli di Maam
2014
Metropoliz - Rome, in a former sausage factory currently occupied by and non-EU blocks precarious a man who thinks he's John the Baptist, is welcomed by the locals.
Obsessive Rhythms
2013
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins.
Handy
2013
This is the first feature film about the life of a hand (named Handy).
Istintobrass
2013
Tinto Brass is one of the most important Italian directors, recognized worldwide as the master of authorial erotic cinema.
The Woods
2012
The Woods follows a group of young Americans who, disillusioned by the world's many problems, move to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest with hopes of creating their own utopian society.
New Order
2012
The year is 2033, three years prior an infection, a virus, or a bacteriological attack wiped out almost 90% of the global population.
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism.
A Memória que me Contam
2012
A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away..
The Last Alchemist
2012
In a cave an ancient and mysterious rite is about to be performed.
Luxxxury
2011
Father
2011
Father is a 2011 French thriller film directed by Pasquale Squitieri.
Rasputin
2010
The true story of the greatest occultist of 1900.
Letters to Juliet: A Courtyard in Verona
2010
A look at the history of the courtyard in Verona, Italy that may or may not have been the locale for Romeo and Juliet..
Letters to Juliet: The Making of in Italia
2010
Behind-the-scenes look of "Letters to Juliet" shot on location in Verona and Siena, Italy in the summer of 2009..
Angelus Hiroshimae
2010
Lullaby
2009
Márió, a varázsló
2008
An Italian businessman, Mario comes to the country and opens his shoe company in a small village.
Bastardi
2008
La rabbia
2008
A young director years old, lives with a girl.
Mein Herz in Chile
2008
Laura returns to Chile, after thirty years, to say goodbye to his old and sick mother.
Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa
2008
Una storia di lupi
2008
Elena
2008
Hans
2006
Hans Schabe, whose last name means cockroach in German, living in filth and madness, becomes a sort of new modern hero, who does not try to pander to people's benevolence with morally deserving actions, but finds himself caged in a world where the only possible fight is the against his mind..
Street Law: Laying Down the Law
2006
Laying Down the Law
2006
Director Enzo Castellari and star Franco Nero recall the making of STREET LAW..
Giornata nera
2006
Interviews with Franco Nero and Vittorio Storaro about the film The Fifth Cord..
È solo un rock'n'roll show
2005
Franco Nero in His Own Words
2005
Strange Stories from the West
2005
Guardians of the Clouds
2004
The raw history of an South-east Italian family in 1952's, among poorness and the fight to survive..
Post coitum
2004
This adult comedy looks at the complex, intermingled sexual relationships between a bunch of diverse characters - a barmaid, a part-time prostitute, a hippy, a rocker, a medical student and a confused virgin!.
Django: et le western apporta la violence
2004
L'unica testimone
2004
The story of an old actor and a life full of regrets, told by his thoughts during a melancholic evening, through the flaming light of a fireplace which illuminates the gloomy soul of a man on the edge...
Filming Django: Exclusive Interview with Franco Nero
2003
Django: Filming Django
2003
Once upon a time... Spag!
2003

TV

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise
2021
Gli angeli dell'isola verde
2001
The Betrothed
1989
In this adaptation of a classic Italian novel, young peasant couple whose relationship no one approves of elopes.
Garibaldi the General
1987
Le rose di Danzica
1981
The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp..

Books

Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physics
Franco Occhionero
The articles collected in this volume cover topics ranging from planck-scale physics to galaxy clustering.
Birth of the universe and fundamental physics
Franco Occhionero
The articles collected in this volume cover topics ranging from planck-scale physics to galaxy clustering.
Alice Rivaz
Françoise Fornerod
Lausanne: Le temps des audaces
Francoise Fornerod

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