Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Actor (b. 1941)
19
Movies
74.9%
Avg ThumbScore
Thriller
Top Genre

Audiences rate Franco Nero’s films higher than 76% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Franco Nero (74.9%) is the average audience approval rating across 19 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Franco's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born November 23, 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 programmes. During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including poliziotteschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of the Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave, which began during the filming of Camelot. They were married in 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.

Born 1941-11-23 in San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

On ThumbScore, Franco Nero appears in 19 films with an average audience score of 74.9%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Franco Nero movie, ranked by audience score

John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
👍 90%
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 2
1990
👍 90%
Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet
2010
👍 87%
The Mercenary
The Mercenary
1968
👍 83%
Django
Django
1966
👍 81%
The Day of the Owl
The Day of the Owl
1968
👍 81%
Tristana
Tristana
1970
👍 80%
Keoma
Keoma
1976
👍 79%
Compañeros
Compañeros
1970
👍 78%
Hitch Hike
Hitch Hike
1977
👍 77%
Querelle
Querelle
1982
👍 74%
Force 10 from Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
👍 73%
The Collini Case
The Collini Case
2019
👍 73%
The Pope's Exorcist
The Pope's Exorcist
2023
👍 67%
The Visitor
The Visitor
1979
👍 67%
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z
2017
👍 66%
Enter the Ninja
Enter the Ninja
1981
👍 66%
The Man from Rome
The Man from Rome
2022
👍 59%
In the Hand of Dante
In the Hand of Dante
2026
👍 52%