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.
Movies (63)
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Dark Fantastic
2025
Titanus 1904
2024
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
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
Ennio
2022
We Are Cinema
2021
Vortex
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
The Last Movie Painter
2020
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
Friedkin Uncut
2018
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
Cult of Terror
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
Of Flies and Maggots
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
Du sang sur la neige
2013
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
Close Up
2012
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
Linee d'ombra
2007
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Italian Kings Of B
2003
Masters of Horror
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
Bits & Pieces
1996
Innocent Blood
1992
Fear in the Dark
1991
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
Opera
1987
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
Tenebre
1982
Inferno
1980
The Cinema Machine
1979
Suspiria
1977
Deep Red
1975
The Five Days
1973
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
