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.
Innocent Blood
(Paramedic)
Tales of the Uncanny
(Self (archive footage))
Cult of Terror
(Self - Filmmaker)
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
(Himself)
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
Close Up
(Self (archive footage))
Dario Argento's World of Horror
(Self)
Ennio
(Self)
Bits & Pieces
Non risponde più
(Himself)
Dario Argento: Panico
(Self)
Linee d'ombra
(Self)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
(Himself (Archive footage 2002))
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Hanging Shadows
CVLT
(Dario Argento)
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
(Self)
Il mistero della cattedrale
(self)
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
(Himself)
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
(Self)
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
(Self)
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
(Self)
Nessuno siamo perfetti
(Self)
We Are Cinema
(Self (archive footage))
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
(Self)
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
(self)
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
Deep Argento
Blood on Méliès' Moon
(Self)
Fear in the Dark
(Self)
A Dark Fairy Tale
(himself)
Of Flies and Maggots
Dario Argento: 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!
(Self)
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
(Self)
Masters of Horror
(Self)
Du sang sur la neige
(Self)
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
(Himself)
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
(Self)
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
(Self)
All the Colors of Giallo
(Self - Director)
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
(Priest (uncredited))
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
(Self)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
(Sé stesso)
Tempus fugit
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
(Himself)
The Last Movie Painter
(Self)
Suspiria
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
Deep Red
(Murderer's Hands (uncredited))
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
(Self - Filmmaker)
Opera
(Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited))
Tenebre
(Narrator (Italian version) / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited))
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
(Self)
The Five Days
(Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited))
Director: Dario Argento
Two Masters' Eyes
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Out of the Shadows
Tales Of The Cat
(Self)
Western all'italiana
Italian Kings Of B
(Self)
Vortex
(Lui)
The Grand Opening
(Himself)
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Homo Cinematographicus
(Self)
Titanus 1904
(Self)
When There's no More Room in Hell
Domenica In
(Self)
Lui è peggio di me
Door Into Darkness
(Self - Host)
Leçon de Cinéma
(Self)
Door Into Darkness
(Self - Host (uncredited))
Call My Agent - Italia
(Dario Argento)
The Phantom of the Opera
(Director)
The Phantom of the Opera
(Screenplay)
Deep Red
(Director)
Deep Red
(Writer)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
(Director)
Cemetery Without Crosses
(Writer)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
(Director)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
(Story)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
(Screenplay)
Suspiria
(Original Music Composer)
Suspiria
(Director)
Suspiria
(Screenplay)
Scarlet Diva
(Producer)
The Cat o' Nine Tails
(Director)
The Cat o' Nine Tails
(Story)
The Cat o' Nine Tails
(Screenplay)
Demons 2
(Writer)
Demons 2
(Producer)
The Church
(Story)
The Wax Mask
(Producer)
The Wax Mask
(Story)
Giallo
(Screenplay)
Phenomena
(Screenplay)
Phenomena
(Director)
Giallo
(Director)
Phenomena
(Producer)
Do You Like Hitchcock?
(Director)
Demons
(Producer)
Demons
(Screenplay)
Two Evil Eyes
(Director)
Two Evil Eyes
(Screenplay)
Two Evil Eyes
(Executive Producer)
Trauma
(Director)
Trauma
(Producer)
The Mother of Tears
(Writer)
The Mother of Tears
(Director)
The Mother of Tears
(Producer)
The Card Player
(Director)
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
(Writer)
The 5-Man Army
(Screenplay)
Inferno
(Screenplay)
Inferno
(Director)
The Stendhal Syndrome
(Director)
Sleepless
(Director)
The Sect
(Writer)
The Five Days
(Director)
Possibility Zero
(Writer)
Dracula 3D
(Director)
Dracula 3D
(Writer)
The Sexual Revolution
(Screenplay)
Battle of the Commandos
(Screenplay)
Every Man Is My Enemy
(Additional Writing)
CVLT
(Director)
Season of the Senses
(Writer)
The Sandman
(Director)
She Will
(Producer)
Commandos
(Screenplay)
Pelts
(Director)
Trauma
(Writer)
Jenifer
(Director)
The Stendhal Syndrome
(Writer)
Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project
(Director)
Macbeth
(Stage Director)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
(Screenplay)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
(Story)
DeGenerazione
(Thanks)
The Church
(Presenter)
Man Called Amen
(Writer)
Phenomena
(Story)
The Stendhal Syndrome
(Producer)
Sleepless
(Producer)
Sleepless
(Screenplay)
The Sect
(Producer)
The Church
(Producer)
The Card Player
(Screenplay)
The Card Player
(Producer)
Do You Like Hitchcock?
(Writer)
The Card Player
(Story)
The Stendhal Syndrome
(Story)
The 5-Man Army
(Story)
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
(Thanks)
The Church
(Screenplay)
Masks
(Thanks)
The King of Ads
(Director)
Dawn of the Dead
(Script Consultant)
Dawn of the Dead
(Music)
Suspiria
(Original Film Writer)
Sleepless
(Story)
Inferno
(Story)
Dark Glasses
(Director)
Dark Glasses
(Screenplay)
Love Circle
(Screenplay)
Commandments for a Gangster
(Writer)
Once Upon a Time in the West
(Story)
Opera
(Director)
Opera
(Story)
Opera
(Producer)
Opera
(Screenplay)
Tenebre
(Story)
Tenebre
(Director)
Tenebre
(Screenplay)
The Five Days
(Story)
The Five Days
(Screenplay)
Dawn of the Dead
(Co-Producer)
Macbeth
(Director)
Masters of Horror
(Director)
Door Into Darkness
(Director)
Door Into Darkness
(Writer)
Door Into Darkness
(Producer)
Door Into Darkness
(Creator)
Turno di notte
(Creator)
Turno di notte - Dario argento (1986)
(Creator)