Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 07, 1940
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Credits
137 titles
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
Filmography
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
The Dark Fantastic
Self
Titanus 1904
Self
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
Deep Argento
CVLT
Dario Argento
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
自己
Call My Agent: Italy
Dario Argento
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
She Will
Producer
Dark Glasses
Director
Ennio
Self
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Vortex
Lui
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
Lui è peggio di me
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
The Last Movie Painter
Self
The Grand Opening
Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
All the Colors of Giallo
Self - Director
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Thanks
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
Il mistero della cattedrale
self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
Of Flies and Maggots
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self
Macbeth
Stage Director
Du sang sur la neige
Self
Dracula 3D
Director
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Masks
Thanks
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Giallo
Director
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria