Franco Nero – The Legendary Actor

 

Franco Nero  

The Legendary Actor

Franco Nero is an Italian actor, producer and director. He was born in San Prospero Parmense on November 23, 1941. His father was a commissioned officer in the Carabinieri. His real name was Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero. His parents were originally from San Severo (Foggia, Apulia). He grew up in Bedonia and Milan. He studied briefly at the local university's Faculty of Economics and Commerce before studying at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in several popular Italian "genre trends", including 'policioteschi', 'giali' and spaghetti westerns.

His breakthrough role in the 1966 spaghetti western Django made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that included more than 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television shows.

His best films are The Bible: In the Beginning... in 1966, Camelot in 1967, The Day of the Owl in 1968, The Mercenary in 1968, Battle of Neretva in 1969, Tristana and Companeros in 1970. A Confession of a Police Captain 1971, The Fifth Guard 1971, High Crime 1973, Street Law 1974, KEOMA 1976, Hitch-Hike 1977, Force 10 from Navarone in 1978, Enter the Ninja in 1981, Die Hard in 1981, Die Hard 2 in 2010, Letters to Juliet in 2010, Cars 2 in 2011, and John Wick: Chapter 2 in 2017.

His romance with English actress Vanessa Redgrave began in 1966 when they met on the set of Camelot. In 1969, they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero, better known as Carlo Gabriel Nero, screenwriter and director. After years of separation, the two got involved with other people and they reunited and got married on 31 December 2006. Carlo Nero directed Redgrave in the film adaptation of Wallace Shawn's play The Fever.

In the 1970s, Nero dated actresses Catherine Deneuve, Goldie Hawn, and Ursula Andress.

In 1983, he had a second son, Frank Sparanero, also known as Frankie Nero or Frank Nero Jr., was born in Rome, Nero began his acting career in 1996 with Pupi Avatti in a film festival, followed by the film Buck and the Magic Bracelet by Tonino Ricci in 1999. Apart from being an actor, he is also an artist, architect and photographer.

 

In December 1987, a paternity suit in a Court was filed against him in Colombia South America. where he was at that time doing a movie, after a brief romance affair with Mauricia Mena, who claimed that he was the father of her little son Franquito.

In 1994, Nero walked his future stepdaughter Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) down the aisle when she married actor Liam Neeson.  

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