Dario Argento
Known for: Directing
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
Film
Suspiria
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Series
Domenica In
Self
1976
Film
Ennio
Self
2022
Series
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004
Film
Deep Red
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
1975
Film
Opera
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
1987
Film
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
1992
Film
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1980
Film
Tenebre
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
1982
Series
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host
1973
Series
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host (uncredited)
1973
Series
Call My Agent: Italy
Dario Argento
2023
Film
Vortex
Lui
2021
Film
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
2001
Lui è peggio di me
2021
Film
Friedkin Uncut
Self
2018
Homo Cinematographicus
Self
1998
Film
Du sang sur la neige
Self
2013
Film
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022
Film
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Non risponde più
Himself
2004
Film
Masters of Horror
Self
2002
Film
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self
1989
Film
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Priest (uncredited)
1966
Film
Bits & Pieces
1996
Film
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self
2015
Film
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Film
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
2024
Film
The Last Movie Painter
Self
2020
Film
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
2010
Film
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
2012
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
Film
Fear in the Dark
Self
1991
Western all'italiana
2004
Film
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Self
1997
Film
Italian Kings Of B
Self
2003
Il mistero della cattedrale
self
2017
Film
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Self
2005
Film
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Film
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
2021
Film
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Self
2001
Film
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Self
1991
Film
The Dark Fantastic
Self
2025
Film
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
2004
Series
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
自己
2023
Film
All the Colors of Giallo
Self - Director
2019
Film
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
2001
Film
Deep Argento
2023
Film
The Five Days
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
1973
Film
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Film
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self
2001
Film
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Self
1985
Film
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Film
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
Film
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Self
2022
Film
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
1985
Out of the Shadows
2005
Film
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
2016
Film
The Cinema Machine
1979
Film
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Self
Tales Of The Cat
Self
2001
Film
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Self
2016
Film
Linee d'ombra
Self
2007
Film
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Himself
2004
Film
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
2019
A Dark Fairy Tale
himself
2008
Film
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
self
2022
Film
Titanus 1904
Self
2024
Film
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
2011
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Self
2011
Hanging Shadows
Self
2007
Film
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
2022
Film
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Self
1999
Tempus fugit
2006
Film
CVLT
Dario Argento
2023
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2012
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Self
2008
Film
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Director: Dario Argento
2007
The Grand Opening
Self
2019
Film
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
Film
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
Film
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019