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  Franco Nero
Franco Nero (November 23, 1941) is an Italian actor.
He was born Franco Sparanero in San Prospero and grew up in Bedonia and Milan.
While working on Camelot he became close to Vanessa Redgrave, in 1969 they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Nero, a screen-writer and director.
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 FRANCO NERO VIDEOS & DVD'S AT HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
Franco Nero stars as the wandering gunman who arrives, dragging his machine gun in a coffin behind him, in a decaying frontier town caught in the middle of a violent battle between Mexican bandits and a racist gang.
Franco Nero temporarily relinquishes his post as the town sheriff of Widow Rock, Texas, to find and apprehend the man who murdered his father years earlier.
Franco Nero, Tony Musante and Jack Palance star as hired gunslingers who work both sides of the law and team up for a crime spree, before greed breaks up their uneasy alliance.
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 Franco Nero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franco Nero (born November 23, 1941) is an Italian actor.
He was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero, Italy, and grew up in Bedonia and in Milan.
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.
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 Franco Nero Height - Nero's
Franco Nero was at least 6ft tall, maybe still is. He was slightly taller than Vanessa, herself standing at 6ft or 5' 11".
Franco Nero must have been at least 6 feet in his prime.
Are you sure this is all Franco Nero is? In "Camelot" he looked about the same height as Richard Harris.
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 Biography for Franco Nero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Blue-eyed well-built Italian actor Franco Nero, once was a painting photographer, when he was discovered as an actor by director John Huston.
Nero then filmed a few other westerns of that style as Ferdinando Baldi's 'Texas addio' (1966) and Lucio Fulci's 'Tempo di massacro' (1966) and furthered his career by filming in all genres of the cinema and TV.
In the early 80s, Nero was chosen for the role of white ninja in 'Enter the Ninja' (1981) and in 1990 as terrorist Gen. Esperanza, opposite Bruce Willis in Renny Harlin's 'Die Hard 2' (1990).
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 Amazon.com: Texas, Adios: DVD: Franco Nero,Alberto Dell'Acqua,Elisa Montés,José Guardiola,Livio Lorenzon,Hugo ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Franco Nero is the second greatest western actor next to Clint Eastwood.
Franco Nero is surely one of the pleasures of this film-- or rather, watching Nero before he started to parody the types of roles that made him famous in the first place (as he would soon do in Corbucci's work).
Nero's carefully controlled performance (indeed, he seems to be modelling his persona after a Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, or early Burt Lancaster)lends gravity to a *very* thin plotline (sheriff Nero and his younger brother head south to finally find their father's murderer who [surprise!] turns out to be the younger brother's actual dad).
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 col5047 - Franco Nero autograph. Signed in Wien. COA
Franco Nero was a film leading man from 1965.
Nero starred in the popular Django serious of spaghetti westerns, and later played the chop-socky leading role in Enter the Ninja (1980).
More recently, Franco Nero both wrote and starred in the 1994 theatrical feature Jonathan and the Bears.
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 Franco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franco is a common surname in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking areas
Jesús Franco and Ricardo Franco, Spanish directors and brothers
Franco (Mirandela), a freguesia in Mirandela in Portugal
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 10,000 Bullets » Franco Nero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Francesco Sparanero aka Franco Nero was born November 23rd, 1941 in San Prospero, Parma, Italy.
Nero is the son of a police sergeant and he would study economics and trade in Milan University.
Nero also worked at this time as a set photographer when he was discovered by John Huston who would cast him as Abel in The Bible.
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Lancelot's singing, was not as good in real life as it had been portrayed in the 1967 musical portrayed by Franco Nero.
The only way to shut him up was either to give him more to drink and hope he would pass out, or hit him over the head with another bottle (which was a lot quicker).
After several Italian political leaders are murdered, police investigator Dante Matucci's (Franco Nero) only clues are cards bearing the symbol of a salamander left on the desk of each slain official.
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 ttgapers store - USA - Django (2-Disc Limited Edition) - Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The film opens with a woman strung up and lashed by a group of lascivious bandits, only to be saved by even more sadistic gunmen who plan to burn her alive, and Django fan Quentin Tarantino borrowed the scene where a vindictive general slices the ear off a corrupt preacher for Reservoir Dogs.
Nero is dubbed and the guy has the typical hero voice but it is ok (not great and if it was redone I would love to have somebody else dubbed in or Nero himself).
A loner anti-heroic cowboy (played by Italian B-great Franco Nero) travels to a remote, dying western town and ends up fighting two rival bands, a Mexican rag-tag army and an American rag-tag army.
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 Amazon.com: Companeros: DVD: Franco Nero,Tomas Milian,Fernando Rey,Iris Berben,José Bódalo,Eduardo Fajardo,Karin ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Franco Nero stars as a Swedish (!?) gun trader in turn of the century, revolution torn Mexico.
Nero and Milian travel to Fort Yuma to kidnap the imprisoned Professor Xanthos (Rey), the students' hero and possessor of the combination that will open the safe.
As Franco Nero points it out with accuracy during the 17 minutes interview added by Anchor Bay, the men portrayed in the westerns were European immigrants who mustn't be conversant with the English language.
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 Lycos Movies - Celebrity - Franco Nero
A handsome Italian leading man, Franco Nero first came to the attention of US audiences as Abel in John Huston's epic "The Bible...In the Beginning" (1966).
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 whose family is touched by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in "Talk of Angels" and was cast as the slain fashion designer...
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 Franco Nero Thread - Anchor Bay Entertainment UK
I will say that I'm a bigger fan of Nero's output after the rash of spaghettis he did in 1966/67 (Massacre Time, Django) because he learned English and was then able to dub his own lines.
One Nero movie to avoid however is Enter The Ninja, awful movie.
Of interest to anyone that likes Nero's calloborations with Castellari is that the pair are supposed to be shooting a new western in the US.
www.anchorbay.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=9276   (1098 words)

  
 Franco Nero News
News about Franco Nero continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Veteran actress VANESSA REDGRAVE has rekindled her romance with film star FRANCO NERO, the father of her son, 36 years after they split.
The plot is a tangled string of murders committed for an almost incomprehensible motive, but it stays on its feet thanks to Luigi Bazzoni's stylish direction and Vittorio Storaro's atmospheric cinematography.
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 Amazon.ca: Fifth Day of Peace: DVD: Franco Nero,Bud Spencer,Giuliano Montaldo,Relja Basic,Enrico Osterman,Michael ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The screen-shots for the 10 chapter scenes and those of Johnson and Nero look excellent, but do not compare well to the picture quality of the actual film.
For "special" features there are 10 chapter searches, movie factoids which provide no information not found on the case, and abridged biographies and filmographies for Richard Johnson and Franco Nero.
I piad [a small amount] for this and still thought it was a waste.
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 Franco Nero Biography, Photos, News for Franco Nero | TVGuide.com
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 Franco Nero Photos - Franco Nero News - Franco Nero Information
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 The Avenger | Plot | MTV Movies
Franco Nero stars in this Italian-produced variation of his popular "Django" spaghetti westerns.
Borrowing a page from the repertoire of Bob Steele, Nero spends most of the film looking for the murderer of his father.
The guilty party turns out to be the father of Nero's own half brother.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/51735/plot.jhtml   (170 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Enter The Ninja [1981]: Video: Franco Nero,Susan George,Shô Kosugi,Christopher George,Alex Courtney,Will ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Actors: Franco Nero, Susan George, Shô Kosugi, Christopher George, Alex Courtney
A westerner, Nero, initiated into the arts of Ninja, the secret army of professional assassins, finds himself pitted against greed, and an old rival.
Franco Nero, however, is amazing as the white Ninja causing trouble to the local crime lord...leading him to call in an equally skilled ninja from Japan.
www.amazon.co.uk /Enter-Ninja-Franco-Nero/dp/B00004CIUU   (456 words)

  
 Franco Nero at Hollywood Cult Movies
A gritty urban drama, as a dedicated policeman fights corruption and the establishment to track down an elusive killer.
Martin Balsam, Franco Nero and Marilu Tolo star in this Italian production.
A cross-country drive for embittered, alcoholic writer Franco Nero and sexy wife Corinne Clery turns dangerous when they pick up a hitchhiker, unaware he's a demented, gun-happy bank robber on the lam, in the Nevada desert.
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 Franco Nero @ Filmbug UK
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Yodlof Petersen (Franco Nero) is a suave Swedish arms dealer with a love for fast money.
Vasco (Tomas Milian of Traffic) is a trigger-happy Mexican bandit with a hate for suave Swedish arms dealers.
When a high-ranking Italian officer is found dead in his office, the victim of murder, Carabinieri Dante Matucci (Franco Nero) is on the case.
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 Amazon.com: Enter the Ninja / Movie: Video: Franco Nero,Susan George,Shô Kosugi,Christopher George,Alex Courtney,Will ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Franco Nero as Cole, Susan George as Mary Ann Landers, Shô Kosugi as Hasegawa, Christopher George as Charles Venarius, Alex Courtney as Frank Landers, Will Hare as Dollars, Zachi Noy as Siegfried 'The Hook' Schultz, Constantine Gregory as Mr.
Mesuda, Leo Martinez as Pee Wee, Franco Nero as Cole, Susan George as Mary Ann Landers, Shô Kosugi as Hasegawa, Christopher George as Charles Venarius, Alex Courtney as Frank Landers, Will Hare as Dollars, Zachi Noy as Siegfried 'The Hook' Schultz, Constantine Gregory as Mr.
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 HOLLYWOOD ACTORS NETWORK - Franco Nero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Franco Nero, a leading actor in international cinema, was born in Parma (Northern Italy).
At the same time, Nero participated in various spaghetti westerns, such as Django and The Mercenary.
Averaging four film appearances each year, Nero, using Europe as his soundstage, works with directors of the stature of Carlo Lizzani, Damiano Damiani, Luigi Zampa, Luis Bunel, Salvatore Samperi, Elio Petri, Sergei Bondarchuck, Michael Cacoyannis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Claude Chabrol, Vatroslav Mimica, and Marco Bellocchio.
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 Actors - Franco Nero
, and in 1969 they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Sparanero (known professionally as Carlo Nero), a screen-writer and director.
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 Franco Nero Current Month TV Schedule
Starring William Holden, Franco Nero, Shirley Knight, Richard Basehart, Anthony Quayle, Noel Willman, Georg Marischka, Paul L Smith, Gunther Maria Halmer, Martin Gilat.
Starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith, Estelle Winwood, Gary Marshal, Pierre Olaf.
Starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Reginald VelJohnson, William Sadler, John Amos, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, John Leguizamo.
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 Franco Nero Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
More recently, he played an idealistic doctor whose family is touched by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in "Talk of Angels" and was cast as the slain fashion designer in "The Versace Murders" (both 1998).
On the small screen, Nero starred as the legendary silent screen actor in "The Legend of Valentino" (ABC, 1975) and later was featured in the miniseries "The Last Days of Pompeii" (ABC, 1984) and "Young Catherine" (TNT, 1991).
With actress Vanessa Redgrave, he has a son Carlo Sparanero who is a director.
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 Franco Nero Bio, News, Awards and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
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 Franco Nero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Blue-eyed well-built Italian actor Franco Nero, once was a painting photographer...
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