FrameThrower · Actors · Franco Nero
Franco Nero
9 films · 574 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1966–2023
Born 23 November 1941 · San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, 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...…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 574 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1966–2023
- David di Donatello for Best Actor
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1992
- Time Machine Award2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 574 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Franco takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 48% low key — the look of the work Franco takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Querelle
1982 · Lieutenant Seblon
The Fifth Cord
1971 · Andrea Bild
Tristana
1970 · Horacio
The Mercenary
1968 · Sergei Kowalski, The Polish
A Quiet Place In The Country
1968 · Leonardo Ferri
Texas, Adios
1966 · Burt Sullivan
The Pope’s Exorcist
2023 · The Pope
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Julius
The Lost City of Z
2016 · Baron de Gondoriz
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 574 frames from Franco Nero's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.