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Dario Argento

Dario Argento

Director · Born 1940-09-07 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

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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.

Directed

  1. Suspiria (1977) — Director
  2. Deep Red (1975) — Director
  3. Phenomena (1985) — Director
  4. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) — Director
  5. Tenebre (1982) — Director
  6. Inferno (1980) — Director
  7. Opera (1987) — Director
  8. The Mother of Tears (2007) — Director
  9. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) — Director
  10. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) — Director
  11. Two Evil Eyes (1990) — Director
  12. Masters of Horror (2005) — Director
  13. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) — Director
  14. Sleepless (2001) — Director
  15. Trauma (1993) — Director
  16. Dracula 3D (2012) — Director
  17. The Card Player (2004) — Director
  18. Dark Glasses (2022) — Director
  19. The Phantom of the Opera (1998) — Director
  20. Giallo (2010) — Director
  21. Jenifer (2005) — Director
  22. Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005) — Director
  23. Pelts (2006) — Director
  24. The Five Days (1973) — Director
  25. CVLT (2023) — Director
  26. Door Into Darkness (1973) — Director
  27. The King of Ads (1991) — Director
  28. The Sandman — Director
  29. Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project — Director
  30. Dario Argento’s Nightmares (1987) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Suspiria (1977) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  2. Deep Red (1975) — Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
  3. Tenebre (1982) — Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
  4. Inferno (1980) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  5. Opera (1987) — Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
  6. Ennio (2022) — Self
  7. Vortex (2021) — Lui
  8. Innocent Blood (1992) — Paramedic
  9. Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022) — Self
  10. Friedkin Uncut (2018) — Self
  11. The Five Days (1973) — Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
  12. Call My Agent: Italy (2023) — Dario Argento
  13. Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005) — Self
  14. All the Colors of Giallo (2019) — Self - Director
  15. CVLT (2023) — Dario Argento
  16. Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966) — Priest (uncredited)
  17. Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001) — Self
  18. Bits & Pieces (1996)
  19. Masters of Horror (2002) — Self
  20. Door Into Darkness (1973) — Self - Host
  21. Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985) — Self
  22. Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012) — Self
  23. Tales of the Uncanny (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  24. The Last Movie Painter (2020) — Self
  25. The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead (2004) — Himself
  26. Blood on Méliès' Moon (2016) — Self
  27. Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001) — Self - Filmmaker
  28. Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016) — Self
  29. Dario Argento: Master of Horror (1991) — Self
  30. Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017) — Self - Filmmaker
  31. Suspiria 25th Anniversary (2001) — Self
  32. Cult of Terror (2017) — Self - Filmmaker
  33. Dario Argento: Panico (2024) — Self
  34. Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' (2001) — Self
  35. Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021) — Self
  36. Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain (2019)
  37. Stephen King's World of Horror (1989) — Self
  38. L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010) — Self
  39. Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019) — Self
  40. Close Up (2012) — Self (archive footage)