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.

Film	Credit
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione2025 · Actor	Actor
The Dark Fantastic2025 · Self	Self
Titanus 19042024 · Self	Self
Dario Argento: Panico2024 · Self	Self
Deep Argento2023 · Actor	Actor
CVLT2023 · Dario Argento, Director, Screenplay	Dario Argento, Director, Screenplay
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento2022 · self	self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit2022 · Self	Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic2022 · Himself	Himself
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America2022 · Self	Self
She Will2022 · Producer	Producer
Dark Glasses2022 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Ennio2022 · Self	Self
We Are Cinema2021 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Vortex2021 · Lui	Lui
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words2021 · Self	Self
Tales of the Uncanny2020 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
The Last Movie Painter2020 · Self	Self
TThe Grand Opening2019 · Self	Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta2019 · Self	Self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain2019 · Actor	Actor
All the Colors of Giallo2019 · Self - Director	Self - Director
Friedkin Uncut2018 · Self	Self
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia2018 · Actor	Actor
Cult of Terror2017 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
IIl mistero della cattedrale2017 · self	self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions2017 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
Of Flies and Maggots2017 · Actor	Actor
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage2016 · Actor	Actor
Blood on Méliès' Moon2016 · Self	Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo2016 · Self	Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti2015 · Self	Self
Du sang sur la neige2013 · Self	Self
Dracula 3D2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss2012 · Self	Self
Close Up2012 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
DDer Fall der vier Fliegen2012 · Himself (Archive footage 2002)	Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist2011 · Self	Self
DDario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena2011 · Self	Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo2010 · Self	Self
TThe Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'2010 · Actor	Actor
Giallo2010 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria2009 · Actor	Actor
TThe Making of 'Mother of Tears'2008 · Self	Self
AA Dark Fairy Tale2008 · himself	himself
The Mother of Tears2007 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Linee d'ombra2007 · Self	Self
DDirector: Dario Argento2007 · Actor	Actor