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

Leçon de Cinéma

Self

Domenica In

Self

Suspiria

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Call My Agent - Italia

Dario Argento

Deep Red

Murderer's Hands (uncredited)

Innocent Blood

Paramedic

Ennio

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Dario Argento: Panico	Self
2024	Titanus 1904	Self
2023	CVLT	Dario Argento
2023	Deep Argento
2022	Ennio	Self
2022	Tripping The Dark Fantastic	Himself
2022	Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America	Self
2022	DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit	Self
2022	Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento	self
2022	Vortex	Lui
2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)
2021	Alida Valli: In Her Own Words	Self
2020	Tales of the Uncanny	Self (archive footage)
2020	The Last Movie Painter	Self
2019	Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019	All the Colors of Giallo	Self - Director
2019	Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta	Sé stesso
2019	The Grand Opening	Himself
2018	Friedkin Uncut	Self
2017	Cult of Terror	Self - Filmmaker
2017	Il mistero della cattedrale	self
2017	Of Flies and Maggots
2017	Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions	Self - Filmmaker
2016	Blood on Méliès' Moon	Self
2016	Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo	Himself
2016	Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2015	Nessuno siamo perfetti	Self
2013	Du sang sur la neige	Self
2012	Close Up	Self (archive footage)
2012	Der Fall der vier Fliegen	Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2012	Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss	Self
2011	Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist	Self
2011	Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena	Himself
2010	L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo	Self
2009	Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2008	A Dark Fairy Tale	himself
2008	The Making of 'Mother of Tears'	Self
2007	Linee d'ombra	Self
2007	Hanging Shadows	Self
2007	Director: Dario Argento
2006	Tempus fugit
2005	Ban the Sadist Videos!	Self
2005	Out of the Shadows
2004	The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead	Himself
2004	Non risponde più	Himself
2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self
2004	Western all'italiana
2004	When There's no More Room in Hell
2003	Two Masters' Eyes
2003	Italian Kings Of B	Self
2002	Masters of Horror	Self
2001	Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'	Self
2001	Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror	Self
2001	Suspiria 25th Anniversary	Self
2001	Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema	Self - Filmmaker
2001	Tales Of The Cat	Self
1999	Dario Argento: My Cinema	Self
1998	Homo Cinematographicus	Self
1997	The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors	Himself
1996	Bits & Pieces
1992	Innocent Blood	Paramedic
1991	Fear in the Dark	Self
1991	Dario Argento: Master of Horror	Himself
1989	Stephen King's World of Horror	Self
1987	Opera	Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
1985	Dario Argento's World of Horror	Self
1985	Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema	Self
1982	Tenebre	Narrator (Italian version) / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
1980	Inferno	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977	Suspiria	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1975	Deep Red	Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
1973	The Five Days	Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
1966	Pardon, Are You for or Against?	Priest (uncredited)
	I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni	Self

Year	TV Show	Role
2023	Call My Agent - Italia	Dario Argento
2023	Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF	自己
2021	Lui è peggio di me
2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self
1976	Domenica In	Self
1973	Door Into Darkness	Self - Host
1973	Door Into Darkness	Self - Host (uncredited)