Dario Argento

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

86

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-09-07 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

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

  • Opera

    Opera

  • Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

  • Innocent Blood

    Innocent Blood

  • Dario Argento: Panico

    Dario Argento: Panico

  • Suspiria

    Suspiria

  • CVLT

    CVLT

  • Western all'italiana

    Western all'italiana

  • Door Into Darkness

    Door Into Darkness

  • Door Into Darkness

    Door Into Darkness

  • Tempus fugit

    Tempus fugit

  • Nessuno siamo perfetti

    Nessuno siamo perfetti

  • Friedkin Uncut

    Friedkin Uncut

  • Deep Argento

    Deep Argento

  • Ennio

    Ennio

  • Leçon de Cinéma

    Leçon de Cinéma

  • Domenica In

    Domenica In

  • Tales Of The Cat

    Tales Of The Cat

  • Homo Cinematographicus

    Homo Cinematographicus

  • Call My Agent: Italy

    Call My Agent: Italy

  • Deep Red

    Deep Red

  • Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

    Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

  • Inferno

    Inferno

  • Il mistero della cattedrale

    Il mistero della cattedrale

  • Of Flies and Maggots

    Of Flies and Maggots

  • Tenebre

    Tenebre

  • Non risponde più

    Non risponde più

  • Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF

    Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF

  • Dario Argento: Master of Horror

    Dario Argento: Master of Horror

  • Pardon, Are You for or Against?

    Pardon, Are You for or Against?

  • Lui è peggio di me

    Lui è peggio di me

  • Linee d'ombra

    Linee d'ombra

  • Tales of the Uncanny

    Tales of the Uncanny

  • Tripping The Dark Fantastic

    Tripping The Dark Fantastic

  • Bits & Pieces

    Bits & Pieces

  • Close Up

    Close Up

  • Ban the Sadist Videos!

    Ban the Sadist Videos!

  • Du sang sur la neige

    Du sang sur la neige

  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

  • Vortex

    Vortex

  • We Are Cinema

    We Are Cinema

  • Stephen King's World of Horror

    Stephen King's World of Horror

  • Titanus 1904

    Titanus 1904

  • L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

    L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

  • Dario Argento's World of Horror

    Dario Argento's World of Horror

  • All the Colors of Giallo

    All the Colors of Giallo

  • Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

  • Masters of Horror

    Masters of Horror

  • The Five Days

    The Five Days

  • A Dark Fairy Tale

    A Dark Fairy Tale

  • Fear in the Dark

    Fear in the Dark

  • Italian Kings Of B

    Italian Kings Of B

  • Director: Dario Argento

    Director: Dario Argento

  • Cult of Terror

    Cult of Terror

  • Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

    Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

  • La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

    La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

  • The Run

    The Run

  • Two Masters' Eyes

    Two Masters' Eyes

  • Out of the Shadows

    Out of the Shadows

  • The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

    The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

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

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

  • Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

  • Suspiria 25th Anniversary

    Suspiria 25th Anniversary

  • Mario Bava: Operazione paura

    Mario Bava: Operazione paura

  • The Dark Fantastic

    The Dark Fantastic

  • Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

    Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

  • I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

    I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

  • Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

    Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

  • Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

    Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

  • The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

    The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

  • Hangmen, Masques and Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties

    Hangmen, Masques and Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties

  • Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

    Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

  • Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

    Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

  • The Last Movie Painter

    The Last Movie Painter

  • Hanging Shadows

    Hanging Shadows

  • Blood on Méliès' Moon

    Blood on Méliès' Moon

  • Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

    Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

  • BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

    BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

  • DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

    DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

  • Dario Argento: My Cinema

    Dario Argento: My Cinema

  • Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

    Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

  • The Grand Opening

    The Grand Opening

  • The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

    The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

  • Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

    Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

  • Der Fall der vier Fliegen

    Der Fall der vier Fliegen

  • Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

    Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

  • When There's no More Room in Hell

    When There's no More Room in Hell