Dario Argento
Born in Rome, Lazio, Italy — Sep 07 1940
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 G…
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Dario Argento's Credits
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Masters of Horror
Directing
Once Upon a Time in the West
Writing
Suspiria
Writing
Dawn of the Dead
Writing
Suspiria
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ennio
Self
Call My Agent: Italy
Dario Argento
Deep Red
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Demons
Writing
Tenebre
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host
Jenifer
Directing
Phenomena
Production
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
Trauma
Directing
Scarlet Diva
Production
Friedkin Uncut
Self
She Will
Production
Night Shift
Production
The Church
Writing
The Phantom of the Opera
Directing
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
Writing
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Writing
Giallo
Directing
The Sect
Writing
Opera
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Directing
Vortex
Lui
Bits & Pieces
Two Evil Eyes
Writing
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
Dracula 3D
Directing
Sleepless
Directing
The Stendhal Syndrome
Directing
Dark Glasses
Writing
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self
The 5-Man Army
Writing
The King of Ads
Directing
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
Directing
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Writing
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
The Card Player
Directing
Pelts
Directing
Italian Kings Of B
Self
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
Demons 2
Production
Love Circle
Writing
DeGenerazione
Crew
Man Called Amen
Writing
Masters of Horror
Self
Cemetery Without Crosses
Writing
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
The Mother of Tears
Directing
Fear in the Dark
Self
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Priest (uncredited)
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
Homo Cinematographicus
Self
Commandos
Writing
Titanus 1904
Self
Western all'italiana
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Possibility Zero
Writing
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
The Run
Priest
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self
CVLT
Dario Argento
Battle of the Commandos
Writing
Du sang sur la neige
Self
Season of the Senses
Writing
Commandments for a Gangster
Writing
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Crew
All the Colors of Giallo
Self - Director
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
The Sexual Revolution
Writing
The Five Days
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Himself
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Self
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
self
The Wax Mask
Production
Macbeth
Directing
Masks
Crew
The Sandman
Directing
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self
Linee d'ombra
Self
Non risponde più
Himself
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Himself
Two Masters' Eyes
Il mistero della cattedrale
self
Every Man Is My Enemy
Crew
Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project
Directing
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Self
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Directing
The Dark Fantastic
Self
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Himself
Deep Argento
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Himself
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Self
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Self
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
Out of the Shadows
The Last Movie Painter
Self
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
Tempus fugit
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Self
A Dark Fairy Tale
himself
When There's no More Room in Hell
Tales Of The Cat
Self
Of Flies and Maggots
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Self
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Self
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
Hanging Shadows
Self
The Grand Opening
Himself
Director: Dario Argento
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
自己
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria