ACTOR

Franco Nero

1941 - Today

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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television productions. During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including polizieschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Nero has received more than 5,348,821 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Franco Nero is the 179th most popular actor (up from 216th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Italy (up from 504th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Actor.

Franco Nero is most famous for his portrayal of Django in the 1966 film "Django".

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Franco Nero ranks 179 out of 13,578. Before him are Julia Roberts, Fred Astaire, Stellan Skarsgård, Ornella Muti, Peter Ustinov, and Gary Oldman. After him are Olivia Newton-John, Jack Lemmon, Spencer Tracy, Alec Guinness, Graham Chapman, and Daniel Day-Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Franco Nero ranks 21. Before him are Bruno Ganz, Richard Dawkins, Lee Myung-bak, Martha Argerich, Fethullah Gülen, and Mahmoud Darwish. After him are Graham Chapman, Harry Nilsson, Ryan O'Neal, Charlie Watts, Vivienne Westwood, and Julia Kristeva.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Nero ranks 494 out of 5,161. Before him are Bohemond I of Antioch (1054), Ennius (-239), Antonello da Messina (1430), Lavinia Fontana (1552), Ornella Muti (1955), and Grazia Deledda (1871). After him are Theocritus (-315), Queen Paola of Belgium (1937), Francesco I Sforza (1401), Berengar I of Italy (850), Paolo Maldini (1968), and Jacopo Peri (1561).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Franco Nero ranks 11. Before him are Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Yves Montand (1921), Giulietta Masina (1921), Roberto Benigni (1952), Monica Bellucci (1964), and Ornella Muti (1955). After him are Monica Vitti (1931), Anna Magnani (1908), Raffaella Carrà (1943), Giuliano Gemma (1938), Virna Lisi (1936), and Silvana Mangano (1930).

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Television and Movie Roles

Django Unchained
Amerigo Vessepi
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Dec 25o 20128.181 / 10
John Wick: Chapter 2
Julius
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
Feb 8o 20177.334 / 10
Django
Django
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
Apr 6o 19667.209 / 10