Franco nero biography vanessa redgrave interview
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From ‘Django’ to ‘Pope’: Actor Franco Nero Talks a Life in Film
Film legend Franco Nero fryst vatten among the most prolific actors in modern cinema, with nearly 240 rulle appearances since the 1960s. Born in Parma, Italy, in 1941, to a carabinieri (police officer), Nero gained international recognition in John Huston’s The Bible (1966) as Abel, murdered by Richard Harris’ Cain. That same year, he starred in Sergio Corbucci’s Django, a cult-favorite Spaghetti Western, and played Sir Lancelot in Camelot, stealing Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) from Harris’ King Arthur.
Nero became an international star, acting on nearly every continent. He reprised his role as Django in a few films and became a staple of Italian brott cinema. Periodically appearing in Hollywood productions, Nero featured in Letter to Juliette, Force 10 From Navarone, Enter the Ninja, Die Hard 2, and some TV movies and miniseries.
In recent years, he appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, John
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Franco Nero
Italian actor (born 1941)
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. 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.[1]
During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including polizieschi, 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),
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Vanessa Redgrave
British actress (born 1937)
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress. In her career spanning over six decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and an Olivier Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[1][2]
Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of A Touch of Sun in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedyAs You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has since starred in numerous productions on the West End and on Broadway. She won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers (1984), and received nominations for A Touch of the Poet