Dario Argento
Known for Directing · 85 credits
- Born
- 1940-09-07 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Also known as
- Sirio Bernadotte · 다리오 아르젠토 · 达里奥·阿基多
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
TV Shows (6)
Movies (79)
Suspiria
1977
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ennio
2022
as Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
as Self
Innocent Blood
1992
as Paramedic
Deep Red
1975
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Tenebre
1982
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno
1980
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Opera
1987
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
as Self - Filmmaker
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
as Self
Vortex
2021
as Lui
Friedkin Uncut
2018
as Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
as Self
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
as Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
as Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
Western all'italiana
2004
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
as Priest (uncredited)
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
as Self
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
as Self
Masters of Horror
2002
as Self
The Last Movie Painter
2020
as Self
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
as Himself
Italian Kings Of B
2003
as Self
Bits & Pieces
1996
Cult of Terror
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
as Self
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
as Self - Director
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
as Self
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self
The Dark Fantastic
2025
as Self
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
as Self
Titanus 1904
2024
as Self
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
as self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
as Self
Du sang sur la neige
2013
as Self
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
as Self
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
as Self
Linee d'ombra
2007
as Self
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
Fear in the Dark
1991
as Self
Out of the Shadows
2005
Hanging Shadows
2007
as Self
The Five Days
1973
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
as Self
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
as Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
as Self
The Cinema Machine
1979
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
as Self
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
as Self
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
as Self
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
as Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
as Himself
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
as Self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
as self
Non risponde più
2004
as Himself
CVLT
2023
as Dario Argento
Tempus fugit
2006
The Grand Opening
2019
as Self
Deep Argento
2023
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008
as Self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
as Self
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
as Self
Tales Of The Cat
2001
as Self
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
Director: Dario Argento
2007
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008
as himself
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
About 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… With 85 credits spanning from 1966 to 2025, Dario Argento has appeared in 79 films and 6 TV shows.
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Most Popular Dario Argento Movies
- Suspiria (1977) — as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Ennio (2022) — as Self
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022) — as Self
- Innocent Blood (1992) — as Paramedic
- Deep Red (1975) — as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
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