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.
Known For
Paramedic
Innocent Blood
Self (archive footage)
Tales of the Uncanny
Self - Filmmaker
Culto al terror
Himself
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
Self (archive footage)
Close Up
Self
Il mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento
Self
Ennio
Il cielo è sempre più blu
Himself
Non risponde più
Self
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
Linee d'ombra
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Self
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Self
Hanging Shadows
Dario Argento
CVLT
Self
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
self
Il mistero della cattedrale
Himself
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Self
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America
Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self (archive footage)
Noi siamo cinema
Self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
self
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
Profondo Argento
Self
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
Fear in the Dark
himself
A Dark Fairy Tale
Of Flies and Maggots
Himself
Dario Argento: Maestro dell'Orrore
Himself
Il mondo di Dario Argento 3 - Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Self
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self - Filmmaker
Terreur et glamour : montée et déclin du studio Hammer
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno
Self
Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano
Self
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self
Masters of Horror
Self
Du sang sur la neige
Himself
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Self - Director
All the Colors of Giallo
Priest (uncredited)
Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?
Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Sé stesso
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Tempus fugit
Himself
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Self
L'ultimo uomo che dipinse il cinema
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Suspiria
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Profondo rosso
Self - Filmmaker
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Opera
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Tenebre
Self
Alida
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Le cinque giornate
Director: Dario Argento
Two Masters' Eyes
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Out of the Shadows
Self
Tales Of The Cat
Western all'italiana
Self
Italian Kings Of B
Lui
Vortex
Himself
The Grand Opening
Self
Dario Argento: Il mio cinema
Self
Homo Cinematographicus
Self
Titanus 1904
Quando all'inferno non ci sarà più posto
The Run
Self
The Dark Fantastic
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
77
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-09-07
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Also Known As
Sirio Bernadotte