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 (61 movies)
Innocent Blood
1992
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Cult of Terror
2017
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
Close Up
2012
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
Ennio
2022
Bits & Pieces
1996
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
Linee d'ombra
2007
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
CVLT
2023
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
We Are Cinema
2021
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
Deep Argento
2023
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
Fear in the Dark
1991
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Inferno
1980
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
Friedkin Uncut
2018
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
Masters of Horror
2002
Du sang sur la neige
2013
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
The Last Movie Painter
2020
Suspiria
1977
Deep Red
1975
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Opera
1987
Tenebre
1982
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
The Five Days
1973
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Italian Kings Of B
2003
Vortex
2021
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
Titanus 1904
2024
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
The Run
2025
The Dark Fantastic
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Directing (25 movies)
The Phantom of the Opera
1998
Deep Red
1975
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
Suspiria
1977
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971
Phenomena
1985
Giallo
2010
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
Two Evil Eyes
1990
Trauma
1993
The Mother of Tears
2007
The Card Player
2004
Inferno
1980
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
Sleepless
2001
The Five Days
1973
Dracula 3D
2012
CVLT
2023
Pelts
2006
Jenifer
2005
The King of Ads
1991
Dark Glasses
2022
Opera
1987
Tenebre
1982
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! | 1968 | Writer |
| Commandments for a Gangster | 1968 | Writer |
| Commandos | 1968 | Screenplay |
| The Sexual Revolution | 1968 | Screenplay |
| Cemetery Without Crosses | 1969 | Writer |
| Love Circle | 1969 | Screenplay |
| Possibility Zero | 1969 | Writer |
| Battle of the Commandos | 1969 | Screenplay |
| The 5-Man Army | 1969 | Screenplay |
| Season of the Senses | 1969 | Writer |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Screenplay |
| The Cat o' Nine Tails | 1971 | Screenplay |
| Four Flies on Grey Velvet | 1971 | Screenplay |
| Man Called Amen | 1972 | Writer |
| The Five Days | 1973 | Screenplay |
| Deep Red | 1975 | Writer |
| Suspiria | 1977 | Original Music Composer |
| Suspiria | 1977 | Screenplay |
| Inferno | 1980 | Screenplay |
| Tenebre | 1982 | Screenplay |
| Phenomena | 1985 | Screenplay |
| Phenomena | 1985 | Producer |
| Demons | 1985 | Producer |
| Demons | 1985 | Screenplay |
| Demons 2 | 1986 | Writer |
| Demons 2 | 1986 | Producer |
| Opera | 1987 | Producer |
| Opera | 1987 | Screenplay |
| The Church | 1989 | Producer |
| The Church | 1989 | Screenplay |
| Two Evil Eyes | 1990 | Screenplay |
| Two Evil Eyes | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| The Sect | 1991 | Writer |
| The Sect | 1991 | Producer |
| Trauma | 1993 | Producer |
| Trauma | 1993 | Writer |
| The Stendhal Syndrome | 1996 | Writer |
| The Stendhal Syndrome | 1996 | Producer |
| The Wax Mask | 1997 | Producer |
| The Phantom of the Opera | 1998 | Screenplay |
| Scarlet Diva | 2000 | Producer |
| Sleepless | 2001 | Producer |
| Sleepless | 2001 | Screenplay |
| The Card Player | 2004 | Screenplay |
| The Card Player | 2004 | Producer |
| Do You Like Hitchcock? | 2005 | Writer |
| The Mother of Tears | 2007 | Writer |
| The Mother of Tears | 2007 | Producer |
| Giallo | 2010 | Screenplay |
| Dracula 3D | 2012 | Writer |
| Dark Glasses | 2022 | Screenplay |
| She Will | 2022 | Producer |
| CVLT | 2023 | Screenplay |