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Dario Argento

Dario Argento

Directing

Born September 7, 1940 Rome, Lazio, Italy

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.

TV Shows(6)

Movies(79)

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

2025

The Dark Fantastic

The Dark Fantastic

Self

2025

Titanus 1904

Titanus 1904

Self

2024

Dario Argento: Panico

Dario Argento: Panico

Self

2024

Deep Argento

Deep Argento

2023

CVLT

CVLT

Dario Argento

2023

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

self

2022

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

Self

2022

Tripping The Dark Fantastic

Tripping The Dark Fantastic

Himself

2022

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Self

2022

Ennio

Ennio

Self

2022

We Are Cinema

We Are Cinema

Self (archive footage)

2021

Vortex

Vortex

Lui

2021

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

Self

2021

Tales of the Uncanny

Tales of the Uncanny

Self (archive footage)

2020

The Last Movie Painter

The Last Movie Painter

Self

2020

The Grand Opening

The Grand Opening

Self

2019

Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties

Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties

Self

2019

Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

2019

All the Colors of Giallo

All the Colors of Giallo

Self - Director

2019

Friedkin Uncut

Friedkin Uncut

Self

2018

BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

2018

Cult of Terror

Cult of Terror

Self - Filmmaker

2017

Il mistero della cattedrale

Il mistero della cattedrale

self

2017

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

Self - Filmmaker

2017

Of Flies and Maggots

Of Flies and Maggots

2017

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

2016

Blood on Méliès' Moon

Blood on Méliès' Moon

Self

2016

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

Self

2016

Nessuno siamo perfetti

Nessuno siamo perfetti

Self

2015

Du sang sur la neige

Du sang sur la neige

Self

2013

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Self

2012

Close Up

Close Up

Self (archive footage)

2012

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

Himself (Archive footage 2002)

2012

Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

Self

2011

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

Self

2011

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Self

2010

The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

2010

Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

2009

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

Self

2008

A Dark Fairy Tale

A Dark Fairy Tale

himself

2008

Linee d'ombra

Linee d'ombra

Self

2007

Director: Dario Argento

Director: Dario Argento

2007

Hanging Shadows

Hanging Shadows

Self

2007

Tempus fugit

Tempus fugit

2006

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows

2005

Ban the Sadist Videos!

Ban the Sadist Videos!

Self

2005

When There's no More Room in Hell

When There's no More Room in Hell

2004

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

Himself

2004

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Self

2004

Non risponde più

Non risponde più

Himself

2004

Western all'italiana

Western all'italiana

2004

Two Masters' Eyes

Two Masters' Eyes

2003

Italian Kings Of B

Italian Kings Of B

Self

2003

Masters of Horror

Masters of Horror

Self

2002

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

Self - Filmmaker

2001

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

Self

2001

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

Self

2001

Tales Of The Cat

Tales Of The Cat

Self

2001

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

Self

2001

Dario Argento: My Cinema

Dario Argento: My Cinema

Self

1999

Homo Cinematographicus

Homo Cinematographicus

Self

1998

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

Self

1997

Bits & Pieces

Bits & Pieces

1996

Innocent Blood

Innocent Blood

Paramedic

1992

Fear in the Dark

Fear in the Dark

Self

1991

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

Self

1991

Stephen King's World of Horror

Stephen King's World of Horror

Self

1989

Opera

Opera

Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)

1987

Dario Argento's World of Horror

Dario Argento's World of Horror

Self

1985

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Self

1985

Tenebre

Tenebre

Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)

1982

Inferno

Inferno

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1980

The Cinema Machine

The Cinema Machine

1979

Suspiria

Suspiria

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1977

Deep Red

Deep Red

Murderer's Hands (uncredited)

1975

The Five Days

The Five Days

Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)

1973

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

Priest (uncredited)

1966

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

Self