Dario Argento
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-09-07 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Dario Argento
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.
Acting
(2024)
Dario Argento: Panico
as Self
(2024)
Titanus 1904
as Self
(2023)
CVLT
as Dario Argento
(2023)
(2022)
Ennio
as Self
(2022)
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
as Himself
(2022)
(2022)
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
as Self
(2022)
(2022)
Vortex
as Lui
(2021)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
(2020)
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
The Last Movie Painter
as Self
(2019)
(2019)
All the Colors of Giallo
as Self - Director
(2019)
(2019)
The Grand Opening
as Himself
(2018)
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
(2017)
Cult of Terror
as Self - Filmmaker
(2017)
Il mistero della cattedrale
as self
(2017)
(2017)
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Filmmaker
(2016)
Blood on Méliès' Moon
as Self
(2016)
(2016)
(2015)
Nessuno siamo perfetti
as Self
(2013)
Du sang sur la neige
as Self
(2012)
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
(2012)
(2011)
(2011)
(2010)
(2009)
(2008)
A Dark Fairy Tale
as himself
(2008)
(2007)
Linee d'ombra
as Self
(2007)
Hanging Shadows
as Self
(2007)
(2006)
(2005)
Ban the Sadist Videos!
as Self
(2005)
(2004)
(2004)
Non risponde più
as Himself
(2004)
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
(2003)
Italian Kings Of B
as Self
(2002)
Masters of Horror
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
as Self
(2001)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker
(2001)
Tales Of The Cat
as Self
(1999)
Dario Argento: My Cinema
as Self
(1998)
Homo Cinematographicus
as Self
(1997)
(1996)
(1992)
Innocent Blood
as Paramedic
(1991)
Fear in the Dark
as Self
(1991)
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
as Himself
(1989)
(1987)
Opera
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
(1985)
(1985)
(1982)
Tenebre
as Narrator (Italian version) / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
(1980)
Inferno
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1977)
Suspiria
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1975)
Deep Red
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
(1973)
The Five Days
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
(1966)
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Priest (uncredited)
Crew
The Sandman
Director
(2023)
CVLT
Director
(2022)
She Will
Producer
(2022)
Dark Glasses
Director, Screenplay
(2018)
(2018)
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
(2015)
Macbeth
Stage Director
(2012)
Dracula 3D
Director, Writer
(2011)
Masks
Thanks
(2010)
Giallo
Screenplay, Director
(2007)
The Mother of Tears
Writer, Director, Producer
(2006)
Pelts
Director
(2005)
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director, Writer
(2005)
Jenifer
Director
(2004)
The Card Player
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
(2001)
Sleepless
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
(2000)
Scarlet Diva
Producer
(1998)
The Phantom of the Opera
Director, Screenplay
(1997)
The Wax Mask
Producer, Story
(1996)
The Stendhal Syndrome
Director, Writer, Producer, Story
(1994)
DeGenerazione
Thanks
(1993)
Trauma
Director, Producer, Writer
(1991)
The Sect
Writer, Producer
(1991)
The King of Ads
Director
(1990)
Two Evil Eyes
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
(1989)
The Church
Story, Presenter, Producer, Screenplay
(1987)
Opera
Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
(1986)
Demons 2
Writer, Producer
(1985)
Phenomena
Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story
(1985)
Demons
Producer, Screenplay
(1982)
Tenebre
Story, Director, Screenplay
(1980)
Inferno
Screenplay, Director, Story
(1978)
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant, Music, Co-Producer
(1977)
Suspiria
Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay
(1975)
Deep Red
Director, Writer
(1973)
The Five Days
Director, Story, Screenplay
(1972)
Man Called Amen
Writer
(1971)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Director, Story, Screenplay
(1971)
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director, Story, Screenplay
(1970)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director, Screenplay, Story
(1969)
Cemetery Without Crosses
Writer
(1969)
The 5-Man Army
Screenplay, Story
(1969)
Possibility Zero
Writer
(1969)
Battle of the Commandos
Screenplay
(1969)
Season of the Senses
Writer
(1969)
Love Circle
Screenplay
(1968)
(1968)
The Sexual Revolution
Screenplay
(1968)
Commandos
Screenplay
(1968)
(1968)
(1967)
Every Man Is My Enemy
Additional Writing