Dario Argento
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
Credits
- 2024 · Dario Argento: Panico as Self
- 2023 · Call My Agent - Italia as Dario Argento
- 2022 · Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
- 2022 · Ennio as Self
- 2022 · Vortex as Lui
- 2021 · We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Lui è peggio di me as
- 2020 · Tales of the Uncanny as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · All the Colors of Giallo as Self - Director
- 2018 · Friedkin Uncut as Self
- 2017 · Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
- 2017 · Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions as Self - Filmmaker
- 2016 · Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo as Himself
- 2013 · Du sang sur la neige as Self
- 2012 · Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self
- 2012 · Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist as Self
- 2005 · Ban the Sadist Videos! as Self
- 2004 · The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead as Himself
- 2004 · Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- 2002 · Masters of Horror as Self
- 2001 · Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Filmmaker
- 2001 · Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
- 2001 · Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
- 1996 · Bits & Pieces as
- 1992 · Innocent Blood as Paramedic
- 1991 · Fear in the Dark as Self
- 1989 · Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
- 1987 · Opera as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
- 1985 · Dario Argento's World of Horror as Self
- 1982 · Tenebre as Narrator (Italian version) / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
- 1980 · Inferno as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1977 · Suspiria as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1976 · Domenica In as Self
- 1975 · Deep Red as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
- 1973 · The Five Days as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
- 1973 · Door Into Darkness as Self - Host
- 1973 · Door Into Darkness as Self - Host (uncredited)
- 1966 · Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Priest (uncredited)
- Future · I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni as Self
- 2024 · Titanus 1904 as Self
- 2023 · Deep Argento as
- 2023 · CVLT as Dario Argento
- 2022 · Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento as self
- 2022 · DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit as Self
- 2022 · Tripping The Dark Fantastic as Himself
- 2021 · Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
- 2020 · The Last Movie Painter as Self
- 2019 · The Grand Opening as Himself
- 2019 · Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta as Sé stesso
- 2019 · Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain as
- 2017 · Il mistero della cattedrale as self
- 2017 · Of Flies and Maggots as
- 2016 · Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage as
- 2016 · Blood on Méliès' Moon as Self
- 2015 · Nessuno siamo perfetti as Self
- 2012 · Der Fall der vier Fliegen as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
- 2011 · Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena as Himself
- 2010 · L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo as Self
- 2009 · Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria as
- 2008 · The Making of 'Mother of Tears' as Self
- 2008 · A Dark Fairy Tale as himself
- 2007 · Linee d'ombra as Self
- 2007 · Director: Dario Argento as
- 2007 · Hanging Shadows as
- 2006 · Tempus fugit as
- 2005 · Out of the Shadows as
- 2004 · When There's no More Room in Hell as
- 2004 · Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
- 2004 · Western all'italiana as
- 2004 · Non risponde più as Himself
- 2003 · Two Masters' Eyes as
- 2003 · Italian Kings Of B as Self
- 2001 · Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' as
- 2001 · Tales Of The Cat as Self
- 1999 · Dario Argento: My Cinema as
- 1998 · Homo Cinematographicus as Self
- 1997 · The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors as Himself
- 1991 · The World of Dario Argento 2: Master of Horror as Himself
- 1985 · Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self