Dario Argento
Born: 1940-09-07 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For: Directing
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
2025
2024
- Titanus 1904 as Self
- Dario Argento: Panico as Self
2023
- Deep Argento
- CVLT as Dario Argento
- Call My Agent: Italy as Dario Argento
- Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF as 自己
2022
- Dark Glasses ... (Director)
- She Will ... (Producer)
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
- Ennio as Self
- Tripping The Dark Fantastic as Himself
- Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento as self
- DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit as Self
2021
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
- Vortex as Lui
- We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- Lui è peggio di me
2020
- Tales of the Uncanny as Self (archive footage)
- The Last Movie Painter as Self
2019
- Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
- Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta as Sé stesso
- All the Colors of Giallo as Self - Director
- The Grand Opening as Himself
2018
- Suspiria ... (Original Film Writer)
- Friedkin Uncut as Self
- Dogman's Rabies: Underdog ... (Thanks)
2017
- Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions as Self - Filmmaker
- Il mistero della cattedrale as self
- Of Flies and Maggots
- Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
2016
2015
- Macbeth ... (Stage Director)
- Nessuno siamo perfetti as Self
2013
- Du sang sur la neige as Self
2012
- Dracula 3D ... (Director)
- Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self
- Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- Der Fall der vier Fliegen as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2011
- Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena as Himself
- Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist as Self
- Masks ... (Thanks)
2010
- Giallo ... (Screenplay)
- The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
- L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo as Self
2008
- A Dark Fairy Tale as himself
- The Making of 'Mother of Tears' as Self
2007
- The Mother of Tears ... (Writer)
- Director: Dario Argento
- Linee d'ombra as Self
- Hanging Shadows as Self
2006
- Pelts ... (Director)
- Tempus fugit
2005
- Masters of Horror ... (Director)
- Jenifer ... (Director)
- Do You Like Hitchcock? ... (Director)
- Out of the Shadows
- Ban the Sadist Videos! as Self
2004
- The Card Player ... (Director)
- The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead as Himself
- Western all'italiana
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
- Non risponde più as Himself
- When There's no More Room in Hell
2003
- Two Masters' Eyes
- Italian Kings Of B as Self
2002
- Masters of Horror as Self
2001
- Sleepless ... (Director)
- Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
- Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
- Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' as Self
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Filmmaker
- Tales Of The Cat as Self
2000
- Scarlet Diva ... (Producer)
1999
- Dario Argento: My Cinema as Self
1998
- The Phantom of the Opera ... (Director)
- Homo Cinematographicus as Self
1997
- The Wax Mask ... (Producer)
- The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors as Himself
1996
- The Stendhal Syndrome ... (Director)
- Bits & Pieces
1994
- DeGenerazione ... (Thanks)
1993
- Trauma ... (Director)
1992
- Innocent Blood as Paramedic
1991
- The Sect ... (Writer)
- The King of Ads ... (Director)
- Dario Argento: Master of Horror as Himself
- Fear in the Dark as Self
1990
- Two Evil Eyes ... (Director)
1989
- The Church ... (Story)
- Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
1987
- Opera as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
- Night Shift ... (Producer)
- Dario Argento’s Nightmares ... (Director)
1986
- Demons 2 ... (Writer)
1985
- Demons ... (Producer)
- Phenomena ... (Screenplay)
- Dario Argento's World of Horror as Self
- Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self
1982
- Tenebre as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
1980
- Inferno as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1978
- Dawn of the Dead ... (Script Consultant)
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)
- Door Into Darkness as Self - Host
1972
- Man Called Amen ... (Writer)
1971
- The Cat o' Nine Tails ... (Director)
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet ... (Director)
1970
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage ... (Director)
1969
- Possibility Zero ... (Writer)
- Cemetery Without Crosses ... (Writer)
- The 5-Man Army ... (Screenplay)
- Season of the Senses ... (Writer)
- Love Circle ... (Screenplay)
- Battle of the Commandos ... (Screenplay)
1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West ... (Story)
- Commandos ... (Screenplay)
- Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! ... (Writer)
- The Sexual Revolution ... (Screenplay)
- Commandments for a Gangster ... (Writer)
1967
- Every Man Is My Enemy ... (Additional Writing)
1966
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Priest (uncredited)