Dario Argento
Biography
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him frighting bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own--according to him--was a normal one. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper "Paese Sera". Inspired by the movies, he later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his western collaborations, which included Cimitero senza croci (1969) and the Sergio Leone masterpiece C'era una volta il West (1968). He is known in italy as Master of Horror.
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Also Known As
Movies (47)
The Run
as Priest
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Dark Fantastic
as Self
2025
Titanus 1904
as Self
2024
Dario Argento: Panico
as Self
2024
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
as Dario Argento
2023
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
as self
2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
as Self
2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
as Himself
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
2022
She Will
Producer (Production)
2022
Dark Glasses
Director (Directing)
2022
Ennio
as Self
2022
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Vortex
as Lui
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self (archive footage)
2020
The Last Movie Painter
as Self
2020
The Grand Opening
as Himself
2019
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Self
2019
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
All the Colors of Giallo
as Self - Director
2019
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
2018
Suspiria
Original Film Writer (Writing)
2018
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Thanks (Crew)
2018
Cult of Terror
as Self - Filmmaker
2017
Il mistero della cattedrale
as self
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Filmmaker
2017
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Blood on Méliès' Moon
as Self
2016
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
as Himself
2016
Nessuno siamo perfetti
as Self
2015
Macbeth
Stage Director (Directing)
2015
Du sang sur la neige
as Self
2013
Dracula 3D
Director (Directing)
2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self
2012
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2012
Masks
Thanks (Crew)
2011
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
as Self
2011
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
as Himself
2011
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
as Self
2010
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
Giallo
Screenplay (Writing)
2010
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
