Dario Argento
Directing
Born: 1940-09-07 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
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
Domenica In
Self
Ennio
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
Suspiria
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Opera
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Deep Red
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
Lui è peggio di me
Call My Agent: Italy
Dario Argento
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tenebre
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host (uncredited)
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
Vortex
Lui
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
Linee d'ombra
Self
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Priest (uncredited)
Deep Argento
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
All the Colors of Giallo
Self - Director
Fear in the Dark
Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
Masters of Horror
Self
Titanus 1904
Self
The Five Days
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Du sang sur la neige
Self
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
自己
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Self
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self