Dario Argento

Directing·Sep 7, 1940·Rome, Lazio, Italy

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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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CVLT2023 · Dario Argento, Director, Screenplay	Dario Argento, Director, Screenplay
Dark Glasses2022 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
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Giallo2010 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Mother of Tears2007 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Pelts2006 · Director	Director
Jenifer2005 · Director	Director
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The Card Player2004 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
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The Phantom of the Opera1998 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Stendhal Syndrome1996 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Trauma1993 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
The King of Ads1991 · Director	Director
Two Evil Eyes1990 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Opera1987 · Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited), Producer, Screenplay, Director	Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited), Producer, Screenplay, Director
Phenomena1985 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Tenebre1982 · Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director	Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director
Inferno1980 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Suspiria1977 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Deep Red1975 · Murderer's Hands (uncredited), Director, Writer	Murderer's Hands (uncredited), Director, Writer
The Five Days1973 · Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Four Flies on Grey Velvet1971 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
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