Dario Argento

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

85

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

  • The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

    The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

  • Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

    Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

  • Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

    Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

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

    Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

  • Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

    Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

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

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

  • Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

  • Suspiria

    Suspiria

  • Domenica In

    Domenica In

  • Dario Argento's World of Horror

    Dario Argento's World of Horror

  • Call My Agent: Italy

    Call My Agent: Italy

  • Opera

    Opera

  • Bits & Pieces

    Bits & Pieces

  • Deep Argento

    Deep Argento

  • CVLT

    CVLT

  • The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

    The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

  • Leçon de Cinéma

    Leçon de Cinéma

  • Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

    Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

  • Pardon, Are You for or Against?

    Pardon, Are You for or Against?

  • Deep Red

    Deep Red

  • Innocent Blood

    Innocent Blood

  • Ennio

    Ennio

  • Titanus 1904

    Titanus 1904

  • Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

    Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

  • Friedkin Uncut

    Friedkin Uncut

  • Inferno

    Inferno

  • Tempus fugit

    Tempus fugit

  • 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

  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

  • The Five Days

    The Five Days

  • Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

    Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

  • Western all'italiana

    Western all'italiana

  • Tales of the Uncanny

    Tales of the Uncanny

  • Dario Argento: Panico

    Dario Argento: Panico

  • L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

    L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

  • Suspiria 25th Anniversary

    Suspiria 25th Anniversary

  • Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

    Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

  • Masters of Horror

    Masters of Horror

  • Nessuno siamo perfetti

    Nessuno siamo perfetti

  • Der Fall der vier Fliegen

    Der Fall der vier Fliegen

  • Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

  • Tenebre

    Tenebre

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

    Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

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

    La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

  • Lui è peggio di me

    Lui è peggio di me

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

    Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

  • The Dark Fantastic

    The Dark Fantastic

  • Dario Argento: Master of Horror

    Dario Argento: Master of Horror

  • We Are Cinema

    We Are Cinema

  • All the Colors of Giallo

    All the Colors of Giallo

  • Dario Argento: My Cinema

    Dario Argento: My Cinema

  • Door Into Darkness

    Door Into Darkness

  • Door Into Darkness

    Door Into Darkness

  • Homo Cinematographicus

    Homo Cinematographicus

  • Vortex

    Vortex

  • The Grand Opening

    The Grand Opening

  • Two Masters' Eyes

    Two Masters' Eyes

  • Il mistero della cattedrale

    Il mistero della cattedrale

  • Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

    Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

  • A Dark Fairy Tale

    A Dark Fairy Tale

  • The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

    The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

  • Mario Bava: Operazione paura

    Mario Bava: Operazione paura

  • Italian Kings Of B

    Italian Kings Of B

  • Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

  • Director: Dario Argento

    Director: Dario Argento

  • Out of the Shadows

    Out of the Shadows

  • Tales Of The Cat

    Tales Of The Cat

  • Tripping The Dark Fantastic

    Tripping The Dark Fantastic

  • When There's no More Room in Hell

    When There's no More Room in Hell

  • Of Flies and Maggots

    Of Flies and Maggots

  • The Last Movie Painter

    The Last Movie Painter

  • Close Up

    Close Up

  • Linee d'ombra

    Linee d'ombra

  • Non risponde più

    Non risponde più

  • Stephen King's World of Horror

    Stephen King's World of Horror

  • Ban the Sadist Videos!

    Ban the Sadist Videos!

  • The Run

    The Run

  • Fear in the Dark

    Fear in the Dark

  • Cult of Terror

    Cult of Terror

  • Du sang sur la neige

    Du sang sur la neige

  • Hanging Shadows

    Hanging Shadows

  • Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF

    Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF

  • Blood on Méliès' Moon

    Blood on Méliès' Moon

  • DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

    DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit