Franco Nero

Franco Nero (born November 23, 1941) is an Italian actor. Image File history File links Fnero. ... Image File history File links Fnero. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

He was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero, Parma, Italy, and grew up in Bedonia and in Milan. He studied briefly at the Facoltà di Economia e Commercio before leaving to study at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Parma is a medieval city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, with splendid architecture and a fine countryside around it. ... Jump to: navigation, search Location within Italy Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ...

His first film role was a small part in La Ragazza in Prestito (1964), he had his first lead role in Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) a Spaghetti Western and one of his most well-known films. In 1966 from Django he went on to appear in eight more films released that year including Texas, Addio and Tempo di Massacro. In 1967 he appeared in his first English language film, Camelot (musical) as Lancelot, where he met his future romantic partner, Vanessa Redgrave. A certain lack of facility with English tended to limit these roles, although he also appeared in other English language films including The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Force 10 From Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981) and Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995). Although often typecast in films like Los amigos (1972) or Keoma (1976) he has attempted an impressive range of characters, like Abel in John Huston's epic The Bible: In The Beginning (1966), and the gay lieutenant in Querelle (1982). He has appeared in almost 150 films, and has written, produced and starred in one - Jonathan degli orsi (1993). Jump to: navigation, search Sergio Corbucci (December 6, 1927 - December 1, 1990) is an Italian movie director. ... Django can refer to: A musician The guitar player Django Reinhardt. ... Spaghetti Westerns is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most of them were produced by Italian studios. ... The 1960 musical, Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King. ... In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot (Lancelot du Lac, or Lancelot of the Lake; also Launcelot) is one of the Knights of the Round Table. ... Jump to: navigation, search Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, (born January 30, 1937) is an British actress, a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty. ... Force 10 from Navarone is a war film loosely based on the book by Alistair Maclean. ... Die Hard: With a Vengeance, the third film in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis as policeman John McClane, adds Samuel L. Jackson as Zeus Carver, Willis reluctant partner. ... In the Book of Genesis, Abel (Hebrew הֶבֶל / הָבֶל, Standard Hebrew Hével / Hável, Tiberian Hebrew Héḇel / Hāḇel; Arabic هابيل Hābīl) was the second son of Adam. ... Jump to: navigation, search Statue of John Huston, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906–August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ...

More recently, he starred in Hungarian director Gábor Koltay's Honfoglalás (Conquest) in 1996, and subsequently in Koltay's Sacra Corona (Holy Crown) in 2001.

He was romantically involved with British actress Vanessa Redgrave, and in 1969 they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Sparanero (known professionally as Carlo Nero), a screen-writer and director. Jump to: navigation, search Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, (born January 30, 1937) is an British actress, a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty. ... Jump to: navigation, search Carlo Nero is a mostly European-based film screenwriter and director of British and Italian descent. ...

See also: Other notable figures in Western films Notable figures in Western style motion pictures and/or television series some of whom have been voted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ...