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
- Dario Argento: Panico as Self
- Titanus 1904 as Self
2023
- Call My Agent: Italy as Dario Argento
- Deep Argento
- Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF as 自己
- CVLT as Dario Argento
2022
- Ennio as Self
- Dark Glasses ... (Director)
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
- She Will ... (Producer)
- Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento as self
- Tripping The Dark Fantastic as Himself
- DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit as Self
2021
- Lui è peggio di me
- Vortex as Lui
- We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
2020
- Tales of the Uncanny as Self (archive footage)
- The Last Movie Painter as Self
2019
2018
- Suspiria ... (Original Film Writer)
- Friedkin Uncut as Self
- Dogman's Rabies: Underdog ... (Thanks)
- BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2017
- Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions as Self - Filmmaker
- Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
- Of Flies and Maggots
- Il mistero della cattedrale as self
2016
2015
- Nessuno siamo perfetti as Self
- Macbeth ... (Stage Director)
2013
- Du sang sur la neige as Self
2012
- Dracula 3D ... (Director)
- Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self
- Der Fall der vier Fliegen as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2011
2010
- L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo as Self
- Giallo ... (Screenplay)
- The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2008
- A Dark Fairy Tale as himself
- The Making of 'Mother of Tears' as Self
2007
- The Mother of Tears ... (Writer)
- Linee d'ombra as Self
- Hanging Shadows as Self
- Director: Dario Argento
2006
- Pelts ... (Director)
- Tempus fugit
2005
- Masters of Horror ... (Director)
- Jenifer ... (Director)
- Ban the Sadist Videos! as Self
- Do You Like Hitchcock? ... (Director)
- Out of the Shadows
2004
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- The Card Player ... (Director)
- Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
- The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead as Himself
- Non risponde più as Himself
- When There's no More Room in Hell
- Western all'italiana
2003
- Italian Kings Of B as Self
- Two Masters' Eyes
2002
- Masters of Horror as Self
2001
- Sleepless ... (Director)
- Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Filmmaker
- Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' as Self
- Suspiria 25th Anniversary as Self
- 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 Self
1996
- The Stendhal Syndrome ... (Director)
- Bits & Pieces
1994
- DeGenerazione ... (Thanks)
1993
- Trauma ... (Director)
1992
- Innocent Blood as Paramedic
1991
- The King of Ads ... (Director)
- Fear in the Dark as Self
- The Sect ... (Writer)
- Dario Argento: Master of Horror 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)
- Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self
- Dario Argento's World of Horror 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
- Door Into Darkness as Self - Host
- The Five Days as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
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
- The 5-Man Army ... (Screenplay)
- Cemetery without Crosses ... (Writer)
- Battle of the Commandos ... (Screenplay)
- Love Circle ... (Screenplay)
- Season of the Senses ... (Writer)
- Possibility Zero ... (Writer)
1968
- Once Upon a Time in the West ... (Story)
- Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! ... (Writer)
- Commandos ... (Screenplay)
- Commandments for a Gangster ... (Writer)
- The Sexual Revolution ... (Screenplay)
1967
- Every Man Is My Enemy ... (Additional Writing)
1966
- Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Priest (uncredited)