Dario Argento
Directing • Born 1940-09-07
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.
Filmography
86 credits
Innocent Blood
Movie • 1992
Paramedic
Tales of the Uncanny
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Cult of Terror
Movie • 2017
Self - Filmmaker
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Movie • 2004
Himself
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
Movie • 2009
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Movie • 1985
Self
Ennio
Movie • 2022
Self
Bits & Pieces
Movie • 1996
Non risponde più
Movie • 2004
Himself
Dario Argento: Panico
Movie • 2024
Self
Linee d'ombra
Movie • 2007
Self
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Movie • 2012
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Movie • 2001
Self
Hanging Shadows
Movie • 2007
Self
CVLT
Movie • 2023
Dario Argento
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Movie
Self
Il mistero della cattedrale
Movie • 2017
self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Movie • 2022
Himself
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Movie • 2012
Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Movie • 2001
Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Movie • 2022
Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Movie • 2015
Self
We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Movie • 2022
Self
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Movie • 2022
self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
Movie • 2019
Deep Argento
Movie • 2023
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Movie • 2016
Self
Fear in the Dark
Movie • 1991
Self
A Dark Fairy Tale
Movie • 2008
himself
Of Flies and Maggots
Movie • 2017
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Movie • 1991
Himself
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Movie • 1997
Himself
Stephen King's World of Horror
Movie • 1989
Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Movie • 2017
Self - Filmmaker
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Movie • 2004
Self
Inferno
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Movie • 1985
Self
Friedkin Uncut
Movie • 2018
Self
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Movie • 2005
Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Movie • 2001
Self
Masters of Horror
Movie • 2002
Self
Du sang sur la neige
Movie • 2013
Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Movie • 2016
Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Movie • 2011
Self
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Movie • 2008
Self
All the Colors of Giallo
Movie • 2019
Self - Director
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Movie • 1966
Priest (uncredited)
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Movie • 2010
Self
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
Movie • 2019
Self
Tempus fugit
Movie • 2006
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Movie • 2011
Himself
The Last Movie Painter
Movie • 2020
Self
Suspiria
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Deep Red
Movie • 1975
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie • 2001
Self - Filmmaker
Opera
Movie • 1987
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Tenebre
Movie • 1982
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Movie • 2021
Self
The Five Days
Movie • 1973
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Director: Dario Argento
Movie • 2007
Two Masters' Eyes
Movie • 2003
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Movie • 2016
Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2005
Tales Of The Cat
Movie • 2001
Self
Western all'italiana
Movie • 2004
Italian Kings Of B
Movie • 2003
Self
Vortex
Movie • 2021
Lui
The Grand Opening
Movie • 2019
Himself
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Movie • 1999
Self
Homo Cinematographicus
Movie • 1998
Self
Titanus 1904
Movie • 2024
Self
When There's no More Room in Hell
Movie • 2004
The Run
Movie • 2025
Priest
The Dark Fantastic
Movie • 2025
Self
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Movie • 2025
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Movie • 2010
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
Movie • 2018
Domenica In
TV • 1976
Self
Lui è peggio di me
TV • 2021
Door Into Darkness
TV • 1973
Self - Host
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
Door Into Darkness
TV • 1973
Self - Host (uncredited)
Call My Agent: Italy
TV • 2023
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Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
TV • 2023
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