- Born
- Place
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.
As director
CVLT
Dark Glasses
Dracula 3D
Giallo
The Mother of Tears
Pelts
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Jenifer
The Card Player
Sleepless
The Phantom of the Opera
The Stendhal Syndrome
Trauma
The King of Ads
Two Evil Eyes
Opera
Phenomena
Tenebre
Inferno
Suspiria
Deep Red
The Five Days
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
The Cat o' Nine Tails
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Sandman
Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project
As actor
The Dark Fantastic
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Dario Argento: Panico
Titanus 1904
CVLT
Deep Argento
Ennio
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
We Are Cinema
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Vortex
Tales of the Uncanny
The Last Movie Painter
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
All the Colors of Giallo
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
The Grand Opening
Friedkin Uncut
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
Cult of Terror
Il mistero della cattedrale
Of Flies and Maggots
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Nessuno siamo perfetti