Dario Argento

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

84

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

  • Suspiria

    Suspiria

  • Dario Argento: Panico

    Dario Argento: Panico

  • Domenica In

    Domenica In

  • Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

    Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

  • Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

    Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

  • Deep Red

    Deep Red

  • 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

  • Masters of Horror

    Masters of Horror

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

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

  • Tenebre

    Tenebre

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

    Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

  • Pardon, Are You for or Against?

    Pardon, Are You for or Against?

  • Door Into Darkness

    Door Into Darkness

  • Door Into Darkness

    Door Into Darkness

  • Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

  • Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

    Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

  • Blood on Méliès' Moon

    Blood on Méliès' Moon

  • Hanging Shadows

    Hanging Shadows

  • Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

  • Leçon de Cinéma

    Leçon de Cinéma

  • Bits & Pieces

    Bits & Pieces

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

    Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

  • Call my agent - Italy

    Call my agent - Italy

  • Opera

    Opera

  • Vortex

    Vortex

  • Titanus 1904

    Titanus 1904

  • Lui è peggio di me

    Lui è peggio di me

  • Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

    Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

  • Ennio

    Ennio

  • Inferno

    Inferno

  • Close Up

    Close Up

  • Suspiria 25th Anniversary

    Suspiria 25th Anniversary

  • Innocent Blood

    Innocent Blood

  • Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

    Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

  • The Grand Opening

    The Grand Opening

  • I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

    I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

  • CVLT

    CVLT

  • The Dark Fantastic

    The Dark Fantastic

  • Dario Argento: Master of Horror

    Dario Argento: Master of Horror

  • We Are Cinema

    We Are Cinema

  • Friedkin Uncut

    Friedkin Uncut

  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

  • The Five Days

    The Five Days

  • Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

    Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

  • L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

    L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

  • Nessuno siamo perfetti

    Nessuno siamo perfetti

  • Tales of the Uncanny

    Tales of the Uncanny

  • Tempus fugit

    Tempus fugit

  • Deep Argento

    Deep Argento

  • Western all'italiana

    Western all'italiana

  • Mario Bava: Operazione paura

    Mario Bava: Operazione paura

  • Italian Kings Of B

    Italian Kings Of B

  • Il mistero della cattedrale

    Il mistero della cattedrale

  • All the Colors of Giallo

    All the Colors of Giallo

  • Linee d'ombra

    Linee d'ombra

  • Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

    Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

  • Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

    Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

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

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

  • Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF

    Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF

  • Der Fall der vier Fliegen

    Der Fall der vier Fliegen

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

    La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

  • Tales Of The Cat

    Tales Of The Cat

  • Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

    Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

  • Du sang sur la neige

    Du sang sur la neige

  • Homo Cinematographicus

    Homo Cinematographicus

  • Non risponde più

    Non risponde più

  • Stephen King's World of Horror

    Stephen King's World of Horror

  • Fear in the Dark

    Fear in the Dark

  • Ban the Sadist Videos!

    Ban the Sadist Videos!

  • The Last Movie Painter

    The Last Movie Painter

  • Dario Argento's World of Horror

    Dario Argento's World of Horror

  • Cult of Terror

    Cult of Terror

  • The Run

    The Run

  • When There's no More Room in Hell

    When There's no More Room in Hell

  • Of Flies and Maggots

    Of Flies and Maggots

  • Two Masters' Eyes

    Two Masters' Eyes

  • The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

    The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

  • DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

    DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

  • Tripping The Dark Fantastic

    Tripping The Dark Fantastic

  • The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

    The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

  • Out of the Shadows

    Out of the Shadows

  • A Dark Fairy Tale

    A Dark Fairy Tale

  • Director: Dario Argento

    Director: Dario Argento