Directing · Rome, Lazio, Italy · Born September 7, 1940
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.
MovieLa nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
MovieThe Dark Fantastic
2025
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MovieTitanus 1904
2024
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MovieDario Argento: Panico
2024
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MovieDeep Argento
2023
MovieCVLT
2023
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TVDario Argento in conversation at the DFF
2023
as 自己
TVCall My Agent: Italy
2023
as Dario Argento
MovieIl museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
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MovieDARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
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MovieTripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
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MovieSergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
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MovieEnnio
2022
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MovieWe Are Cinema
2021
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MovieVortex
2021
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MovieAlida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
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Lui è peggio di me
2021
MovieTales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Last Movie Painter
2020
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The Grand Opening
2019
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MovieBoia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
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MovieDario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
MovieAll the Colors of Giallo
2019
as Self - Director
MovieFriedkin Uncut
2018
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MovieBowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
MovieCult of Terror
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
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MovieDark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
MovieOf Flies and Maggots
2017
MovieViaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
MovieBlood on Méliès' Moon
2016
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MovieYellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
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MovieNessuno siamo perfetti
2015
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MovieDu sang sur la neige
2013
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MovieHorror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
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MovieClose Up
2012
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Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
MovieFulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
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Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
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MovieL'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
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The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
MovieFear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008
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A Dark Fairy Tale
2008
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MovieLinee d'ombra
2007
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Director: Dario Argento
2007
Hanging Shadows
2007
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Tempus fugit
2006
Out of the Shadows
2005
MovieBan the Sadist Videos!
2005
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MovieWhen There's no More Room in Hell
2004
MovieThe Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
as Himself
MovieMario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
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TVLeçon de Cinéma
2004
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Non risponde più
2004
as Himself
Western all'italiana
2004
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
MovieItalian Kings Of B
2003
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MovieMasters of Horror
2002
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MovieSergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
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MovieConducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
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MovieSuspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
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Tales Of The Cat
2001
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MovieDario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
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MovieDario Argento: My Cinema
1999
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Homo Cinematographicus
1998
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MovieThe World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
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MovieBits & Pieces
1996
MovieInnocent Blood
1992
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MovieFear in the Dark
1991
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MovieDario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
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MovieStephen King's World of Horror
1989
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MovieOpera
1987
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
MovieDario Argento's World of Horror
1985
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MovieBellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
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MovieTenebre
1982
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
MovieInferno
1980
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
MovieThe Cinema Machine
1979
MovieSuspiria
1977
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
TVDomenica In
1976
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MovieDeep Red
1975
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
TVDoor Into Darkness
1973
as Self - Host
MovieThe Five Days
1973
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
MoviePardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
as Priest (uncredited)
MovieI Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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