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 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
DirectingBirthday
September 7, 1940Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
122Place of birth
Roma, Lazio, ItaliaAlso known as
Sirio Bernadotte, 다리오 아르젠토, 达里奥·阿基多
Cast credits
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Self
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self
Bits & Pieces
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
Fear in the Dark
Self
The World of Dario Argento 2: Master of Horror
Himself
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Himself
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Ban the Sadist Videos!
SelfCrew credits
The Phantom of the Opera
Director, Screenplay
Deep Red
Director, Writer
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director, Story, Screenplay
Cemetery Without Crosses
Writer
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Director, Screenplay, Story
Scarlet Diva
Producer
Suspiria
Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director, Story, Screenplay
Demons 2
Writer, Producer
The Church
Story, Producer, Screenplay, Presenter
The Wax Mask
Producer, Story
Demons
Screenplay, Producer
Giallo
Director, Screenplay
Phenomena
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director, Writer
Two Evil Eyes
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
The Mother of Tears
Director, Writer, Producer
The Card Player
Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer
Trauma
Producer, Director, Writer
The Five Man Army
Screenplay, Story
Inferno
Director, Screenplay, StoryImages
