Dario Argento

Directing · 1.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: September 7, 1940
From: Rome, Lazio, Italy

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.

Works

79 films

Suspiria

19777.5

Ennio

20228.3

Deep Red

19757.7

Innocent Blood

19926.2

Opera

19876.8

Tenebre

19826.8

Inferno

19806.6

Vortex

20217.1

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

20016.4

Du sang sur la neige

2013

Friedkin Uncut

20187.1

Close Up

20129.5

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

19666.1

Homo Cinematographicus

19988.0

Stephen King's World of Horror

19898.0

Non risponde più

20048.5

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

20227.4

Nessuno siamo perfetti

20157.0

Dario Argento: Panico

20246.9

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

20105.0

Bits & Pieces

19965.0

We Are Cinema

20219.5

Masters of Horror

20027.8

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

20127.4

Two Masters' Eyes

20037.0

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

20176.0

The Five Days

19735.9

Fear in the Dark

19919.0

The Last Movie Painter

20207.4

Italian Kings Of B

20036.0

Western all'italiana

20044.0

Dario Argento's World of Horror

19856.9

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

20016.8

Deep Argento

20233.0

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

19977.5

Il mistero della cattedrale

20178.0

All the Colors of Giallo

20196.9

Cult of Terror

20176.8

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

2026

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

20016.8

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

20219.2

BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

2018

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

19859.0

The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

2010

Ban the Sadist Videos!

20056.8

Of Flies and Maggots

20176.0

Blood on Méliès' Moon

20165.1

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

19917.1

Linee d'ombra

2007

Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

20115.0

The Cinema Machine

1979

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

20257.0

The Dark Fantastic

2025

Out of the Shadows

20059.0

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

20048.2

Tales Of The Cat

20018.0

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

20166.6

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

20017.0

Tripping The Dark Fantastic

2022

A Dark Fairy Tale

2008

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

20117.0

Titanus 1904

2024

Hanging Shadows

2007

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

20223.0

The Grand Opening

2019

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

20197.3

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

20084.0

Director: Dario Argento

2007

Tempus fugit

2006

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

2022

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

20126.5

Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

20195.0

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

2016

When There's no More Room in Hell

2004

Dario Argento: My Cinema

19996.0

CVLT

20237.0

Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

2009