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.
Filmography
all 123
Movies 117
self 61
Director 28
Writer 18
TV Shows 6
Producer 4
Screenplay 1
CVLT (2023)
Dario Argento: Panico (2023)
Call My Agent - Italia (2023)
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento (2022)
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit (2022)
Tripping The Dark Fantastic (2022)
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022)
She Will (2022)
Dark Glasses (2022)
Ennio (2022)
Vortex (2022)
We Are Cinema (2021)
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)
Lui è peggio di me (2021)
Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
The Last Movie Painter (2020)
The Grand Opening (2019)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019)
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain (2019)
All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
Friedkin Uncut (2018)
Suspiria (2018)
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog (2018)
Cult of Terror (2017)
Il mistero della cattedrale (2017)
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017)
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage (2016)
Blood on Méliès' Moon (2016)
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016)
Nessuno siamo perfetti (2015)
Macbeth (2015)
Du sang sur la neige (2013)
Dracula 3D (2012)
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012)
Close Up (2012)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen (2012)
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist (2011)
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena (2011)
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010)
Giallo (2010)
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria (2009)
The Making of 'Mother of Tears' (2008)
Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero (2008)
A Dark Fairy Tale (2008)
Linee d'ombra (2007)
Director: Dario Argento (2007)
Hanging Shadows (2007)
The Mother of Tears (2007)
The Fearmakers Collection (2007)
Pelts (2006)
Tempus fugit (2006)
Jenifer (2005)
Masters of Horror (2005)
Out of the Shadows (2005)
Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)
Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004)
Leçon de Cinéma (2004)
The Card Player (2004)
Non risponde più (2004)
Western all'italiana (2004)
Two Masters' Eyes (2003)
Italian Kings Of B (2003)
Masters of Horror (2002)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' (2001)
Suspiria 25th Anniversary (2001)
Tales Of The Cat (2001)
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001)
Sleepless (2001)
Scarlet Diva (2000)
The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
The Wax Mask (1997)
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors (1997)
Bits & Pieces (1996)
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
DeGenerazione (1994)
Trauma (1993)
Innocent Blood (1992)
The King of Ads (1991)
Fear in the Dark (1991)
The Sect (1991)
The World of Dario Argento 2: Master of Horror (1991)
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
The Church (1989)
Stephen King's World of Horror (1989)
Opera (1987)
Demons 2 (1986)
Stephen King's World of Horror (1986)
Demons (1985)
Phenomena (1985)
Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema (1985)
Tenebre (1982)
Inferno (1980)
The Cinema Machine (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Suspiria (1977)
Domenica In (1976)
Deep Red (1975)
The Five Days (1973)
Door Into Darkness (1973)
Man Called Amen (1972)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Season of the Senses (1969)
The Five Man Army (1969)
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Possibility Zero (1969)
Love Circle (1969)
Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Sexual Revolution (1968)
Commandos (1968)
Commandments for a Gangster (1968)
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968)
Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)
Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966)
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Untitled Dario Argento Movie
The Sandman
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1940-09-07 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
RelationshipsDaria Nicolodi (1974-01-01 - 1985-01-01)
ChildrenFiore Argento, Asia Argento
FatherSalvatore Argento
SiblingsClaudio Argento
CitizenshipsItaly
Also Known AsSirio Bernadotte, 다리오 아르젠토, 达里奥·阿基多
AwardsSitges Grand Honorary Award, Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
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