Dario Argento

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: Directing

Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy, 1940-09-07

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	Dario Argento's World of Horror	Self	69
2	1989	Stephen King's World of Horror	Self	80
3	1991	Dario Argento: Master of Horror	Himself	67
4	1991	Fear in the Dark	Self	100
5	1992	Innocent Blood	Paramedic	61
6	1996	Bits & Pieces		49
7	1997	The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors	Himself	60
8	2001	Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror	Self	66
9	2001	Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'	Self	68
10	2004	Non risponde più	Himself	70
11	2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self	60
12	2004	The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead	Himself	83
13	2007	Hanging Shadows	Self	0
14	2007	Linee d'ombra	Self	0
15	2008	A Dark Fairy Tale	himself	0
16	2009	Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria		0
17	2012	Der Fall der vier Fliegen	Himself (Archive footage 2002)	65
18	2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)	90
19	2012	Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss	Self	80
20	2015	Nessuno siamo perfetti	Self	70
21	2016	Blood on Méliès' Moon	Self	44
22	2017	Of Flies and Maggots		60
23	2017	Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions	Self - Filmmaker	60
24	2017	Il mistero della cattedrale	self	80
25	2017	Cult of Terror	Self - Filmmaker	63
26	2019	Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain		50
27	2020	Tales of the Uncanny	Self (archive footage)	71
28	2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)	95
29	2022	Ennio	Self	83
30	2022	Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America	Self	73
31	2022	Tripping The Dark Fantastic	Himself	0
32	2022	DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit	Self	0
33	2022	Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento	self	30
34	2023	CVLT	Dario Argento	71
35	2024	Dario Argento: Panico	Self	70
36		I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni	Self	0
37	1966	Pardon, Are You for or Against?	Priest (uncredited)	60
38	1973	The Five Days	Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)	60
39	1975	Deep Red	Murderer's Hands (uncredited)	78
40	1977	Suspiria	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	75
41	1980	Inferno	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	66
42	1982	Tenebre	Narrator (Italian version) / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)	69
43	1985	Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema	Self	0
44	1987	Opera	Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)	68
45	1998	Homo Cinematographicus	Self	0
46	1999	Dario Argento: My Cinema	Self	60
47	2001	Tales Of The Cat	Self	0
48	2001	Suspiria 25th Anniversary	Self	64
49	2001	Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema	Self - Filmmaker	58
50	2002	Masters of Horror	Self	77
51	2003	Italian Kings Of B	Self	60
52	2003	Two Masters' Eyes		0
53	2004	Western all'italiana		40
54	2004	When There's no More Room in Hell		0
55	2005	Ban the Sadist Videos!	Self	69
56	2005	Out of the Shadows		0
57	2006	Tempus fugit		0
58	2007	Director: Dario Argento		0
59	2008	The Making of 'Mother of Tears'	Self	40
60	2010	L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo	Self	65
61	2011	Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena	Himself	70
62	2011	Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist	Self	50
63	2013	Du sang sur la neige	Self	0
64	2016	Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo	Himself	66
65	2016	Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage		0
66	2018	Friedkin Uncut	Self	70
67	2019	All the Colors of Giallo	Self - Director	67
68	2019	Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta	Sé stesso	85
69	2019	The Grand Opening	Himself	0
70	2020	The Last Movie Painter	Self	76
71	2021	Alida Valli: In Her Own Words	Self	92
72	2022	Vortex	Lui	72
73	2023	Deep Argento		0
74	2024	Titanus 1904	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Door Into Darkness	Self - Host	70
2	1973	Door Into Darkness	Self - Host (uncredited)	70
3	1976	Domenica In	Self	0
4	2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self	70
5	2021	Lui è peggio di me		0
6	2023	Call My Agent - Italia	Dario Argento	76