Franco Nero

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Biography

..In the Beginning" (1966). The following year, he cut a dashing figure as the youthful Lancelot opposite Vanessa Redgrave's Guenevere in Joshua Logan's opulent filming of the hit musical "Camelot". Since then, Nero has appeared in over 50 motion pictures ranging from "A Quiet Place in the Country" (1968) to "Force Ten From Navaronne" (1978) to "Querelle" (1982) to "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" (1990). More recently, he played an idealistic doctor …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer, Writer

Born

Francesco Sparanero on November 23, 1941 in Parma, IT

Career Milestones

2010

Co-starred with wife Vanessa Redgrave in "Letters to Juliet"

2001

Appeared in Koltay's "Sacra Corona"

1998

Portrayed Gianni Versace in the "The Versace Murder"

1998

Co-starred as an idealistic physician in "Talk of Angels"

1996

Starred in Hungarian director Gábor Koltay's "Honfoglalás"

1993

Wrote, produced and starred in "Jonathan degli orsi"

1993

Established own production company

1982

Cast as the gay lieutenant in "Querelle"

1978

Made TV miniseries debut in "The Pirate" (CBS)

1975

Made his American TV debut as Valentino in "The Legend of Valentino" (ABC)

1974

Played the humiliated engineer out for revenge in "Street Law"

1970

Served as one of the producers on "Drop Out"

1970

Featured in the English language film "The Virgin and the Gypsy"

1968

Appeared in the mafia film "Il giorno della civetta" opposite Claudia Cardinale

1967

Portrayed Lancelot in his first English language film "Camelot"; met long time romantic partner, Vanessa Redgrave, who also co-starred

1966

Had first lead role in Sergio Corbucci's "Django"

1966

Had featured role as Abel in John Huston's "The Bible: In the Beginning"

1964

Made feature film debut in "La ragazza in prestito"

Awards

1967

Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actor