Dario Argento
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-09-07
Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Cast
Innocent Blood
1992
6.20
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
7.00
Cult of Terror
2017
6.80
Close Up
2012
9.50
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
6.80
Ennio
2022
8.30
Bits & Pieces
1996
4.90
Non risponde più
2004
7.00
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
6.50
Linee d'ombra
2007
0.00
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
6.50
Hanging Shadows
2007
0.00
CVLT
2023
7.00
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
8.00
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
0.00
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
7.38
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
6.60
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
7.00
We Are Cinema
2021
9.50
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
0.00
Deep Argento
2023
3.00
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
4.40
Fear in the Dark
1991
10.00
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008
0.00
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
6.00
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
6.70
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
8.00
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
6.00
Inferno
1980
6.60
Friedkin Uncut
2018
7.04
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
6.76
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
6.40
Masters of Horror
2002
7.70
Du sang sur la neige
2013
0.00
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008
4.00
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
6.90
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
6.00
Tempus fugit
2006
0.00
The Last Movie Painter
2020
7.40
Suspiria
1977
7.48
Deep Red
1975
7.70
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
6.07
Opera
1987
6.75
Tenebre
1982
6.80
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
9.20
The Five Days
1973
5.82
Director: Dario Argento
2007
0.00
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
0.00
Out of the Shadows
2005
0.00
Tales Of The Cat
2001
0.00
Western all'italiana
2004
4.00
Italian Kings Of B
2003
6.00
Vortex
2021
7.09
The Grand Opening
2019
0.00
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
6.00
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
0.00
Titanus 1904
2024
0.00
The Run
2025
0.00
The Dark Fantastic
2025
0.00
