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.

Known For

Suspiria

Domenica In

Ennio

Leçon de Cinéma

Deep Red

Tenebre

Inferno

Call My Agent: Italy

All Movies (79)

• La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione2025
• The Dark Fantastic2025 · as Self
• Titanus 19042024 · as Self
• Dario Argento: Panico2024 · as Self
• Deep Argento2023
• CVLT2023 · as Dario Argento
• Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento2022 · as self
• DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit2022 · as Self
• Tripping The Dark Fantastic2022 · as Himself
• Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America2022 · as Self
• Ennio2022 · as Self
• We Are Cinema2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Vortex2021 · as Lui
• Alida Valli: In Her Own Words2021 · as Self
• Tales of the Uncanny2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Last Movie Painter2020 · as Self
• The Grand Opening2019 · as Self
• Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta2019 · as Self
• Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain2019
• All the Colors of Giallo2019 · as Self - Director
• Friedkin Uncut2018 · as Self
• BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia2018
• Cult of Terror2017 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Il mistero della cattedrale2017 · as self
• Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions2017 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Of Flies and Maggots2017
• Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage2016
• Blood on Méliès' Moon2016 · as Self
• Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo2016 · as Self
• Nessuno siamo perfetti2015 · as Self
• Du sang sur la neige2013 · as Self
• Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss2012 · as Self
• Close Up2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Der Fall der vier Fliegen2012 · as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
• Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist2011 · as Self
• Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena2011 · as Self
• L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo2010 · as Self
• The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'2010
• Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria2009
• The Making of 'Mother of Tears'2008 · as Self
• A Dark Fairy Tale2008 · as himself
• Linee d'ombra2007 · as Self
• Director: Dario Argento2007
• Hanging Shadows2007 · as Self
• Tempus fugit2006
• Out of the Shadows2005
• Ban the Sadist Videos!2005 · as Self
• When There's no More Room in Hell2004
• The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead2004 · as Himself
• Mario Bava: Operazione paura2004 · as Self
• Non risponde più2004 · as Himself
• Western all'italiana2004
• Two Masters' Eyes2003
• Italian Kings Of B2003 · as Self
• Masters of Horror2002 · as Self
• Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema2001 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'2001 · as Self
• Suspiria 25th Anniversary2001 · as Self
• Tales Of The Cat2001 · as Self
• Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror2001 · as Self
• Dario Argento: My Cinema1999 · as Self
• Homo Cinematographicus1998 · as Self
• The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors1997 · as Self
• Bits & Pieces1996
• Innocent Blood1992 · as Paramedic
• Fear in the Dark1991 · as Self
• Dario Argento: Master of Horror1991 · as Self
• Stephen King's World of Horror1989 · as Self
• Opera1987 · as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
• Dario Argento's World of Horror1985 · as Self
• Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema1985 · as Self
• Tenebre1982 · as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
• Inferno1980 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• The Cinema Machine1979
• Suspiria1977 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Deep Red1975 · as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
• The Five Days1973 · as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
• Pardon, Are You for or Against?1966 · as Priest (uncredited)
• I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni— · as Self

All TV Shows (7)

• Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF2023 · as 自己
• Call My Agent: Italy2023 · as Dario Argento
• Lui è peggio di me2021
• Leçon de Cinéma2004 · as Self
• Domenica In1976 · as Self
• Door Into Darkness1973 · as Self - Host
• Door Into Darkness1973 · as Self - Host (uncredited)