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Dario Argento

Known for: Directing

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.

Filmography 45

Suspiria 1977Movie Director, Screenplay
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968Movie Story
Phenomena 1985Movie Director, Screenplay
Ennio 2022Movie as Self
Giallo 2010Movie Director, Screenplay
She Will 2022Movie Producer
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970Movie Director, Screenplay
The 5-Man Army 1969Movie Screenplay, Story
The Card Player 2004Movie Director, Screenplay
Deep Red 1975Movie MUBIArtiflixPlex Director, Writer
The Cat o' Nine Tails 1971Movie ArtiflixPlex Director, Screenplay
Two Evil Eyes 1990Movie Director, Screenplay
Demons 1985Movie BloodstreamArtiflix Screenplay, Producer
Tenebre 1982Movie Bloodstream Director, Screenplay
Dracula 3D 2012Movie Director, Writer
Inferno 1980Movie as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Door Into Darkness 1973TV show as Self - Host
Scarlet Diva 2000Movie Producer
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! 1968Movie Writer
The Church 1989Movie Bloodstream Screenplay, Story
Opera 1987Movie as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Demons 2 1986Movie Bloodstream Writer, Producer
The Stendhal Syndrome 1996Movie Director, Writer
Four Flies on Grey Velvet 1971Movie Plex Director, Screenplay
Dark Glasses 2022Movie Director, Screenplay
Vortex 2021Movie as Lui
Jenifer 2005Movie Director
The Phantom of the Opera 1998Movie Director, Screenplay
The Wax Mask 1997Movie Bloodstream Story, Producer
Cemetery without Crosses 1969Movie Writer
Trauma 1993Movie Director, Writer
Sleepless 2001Movie Director, Screenplay
Man Called Amen 1972Movie Writer
Friedkin Uncut 2018Movie as Self
Dario Argento: Panico 2024Movie as Self
The Mother of Tears 2007Movie Director, Writer
Commandos 1968Movie ArtiflixPlex Screenplay
The Sect 1991Movie Bloodstream Writer, Producer
Bits & Pieces 1996Movie
All the Colors of Giallo 2019Movie Bloodstream as Self - Director
Blood on Méliès' Moon 2016Movie as Self
The Dark Fantastic 2025Movie as Self
Ban the Sadist Videos! 2005Movie Bloodstream as Self
Possibility Zero 1969Movie Writer
The Five Days 1973Movie Director, Screenplay