Dario Argento
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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
Credits
Ennio (2022)
as Self
Suspiria (1977)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Opera (1987)
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Innocent Blood (1992)
as Paramedic
Inferno (1980)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Deep Red (1975)
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Tenebre (1982)
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Close Up (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022)
as Self
Dario Argento: Master of Horror (1991)
as Self
Friedkin Uncut (2018)
as Self
Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Vortex (2021)
as Lui
Blood on Méliès' Moon (2016)
as Self
Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966)
as Priest (uncredited)
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Homo Cinematographicus (1998)
as Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017)
as Self - Filmmaker
The Five Days (1973)
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004)
as Self
Cult of Terror (2017)
as Self - Filmmaker
Italian Kings Of B (2003)
as Self
Dario Argento: My Cinema (1999)
as Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
as Self - Filmmaker
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni (—)
as Self
Stephen King's World of Horror (1989)
as Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010)
as Self
Bits & Pieces (1996)
Actor
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012)
as Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist (2011)
as Self
Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)
as Self
Dario Argento: Panico (2024)
as Self
The Dark Fantastic (2025)
as Self
Titanus 1904 (2024)
as Self
Masters of Horror (2002)
as Self
Fear in the Dark (1991)
as Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary (2001)
as Self
The Cinema Machine (1979)
Actor
Of Flies and Maggots (2017)
Actor
All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
as Self - Director
Du sang sur la neige (2013)
as Self
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione (2025)
Actor
Western all'italiana (2004)
Actor
Tripping The Dark Fantastic (2022)
as Himself
Nessuno siamo perfetti (2015)
as Self
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema (1985)
as Self
Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985)
as Self
A Dark Fairy Tale (2008)
as himself
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia (2018)
Actor
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors (1997)
as Self
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat' (2010)
Actor
Deep Argento (2023)
Actor
Out of the Shadows (2005)
Actor
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)
as Self
Linee d'ombra (2007)
as Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019)
as Self
Two Masters' Eyes (2003)
Actor
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016)
as Self
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead (2004)
as Himself
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento (2022)
as self
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage (2016)
Actor
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001)
as Self
The Last Movie Painter (2020)
as Self
Hanging Shadows (2007)
as Self
Tales Of The Cat (2001)
as Self
CVLT (2023)
as Dario Argento
Der Fall der vier Fliegen (2012)
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena (2011)
as Self
Il mistero della cattedrale (2017)
as self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit (2022)
as Self
Non risponde più (2004)
as Himself
The Making of 'Mother of Tears' (2008)
as Self
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria (2009)
Actor
Director: Dario Argento (2007)
Actor
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' (2001)
as Self
Tempus fugit (2006)
Actor
The Grand Opening (2019)
as Self
When There's no More Room in Hell (2004)
Actor
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain (2019)
Actor