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 , 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.
Filmography
all 134
Movies 126
self 62
Director 20
Producer 18
TV Shows 8
Writer 7
Screenplay 5
CVLT (2023)
Call My Agent - Italia (2023)
She Will (2022)
Dark Glasses (2022)
Ennio (2022)
We Are Cinema (2021)
Tales of the Uncanny (2020)
The Grand Opening (2019)
All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
Suspiria (2018)
Cult of Terror (2017)
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017)
Macbeth (2015)
Dracula 3D (2012)
Close Up (2012)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen (2012)
Masks (2011)
Giallo (2010)
A Dark Fairy Tale (2008)
The Mother of Tears (2007)
Pelts (2006)
Jenifer (2005)
Masters of Horror (2005)
Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
The Card Player (2004)
Non risponde più (2004)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
Sleepless (2001)
Scarlet Diva (2000)
The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
The Wax Mask (1997)
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
DeGenerazione (1994)
Trauma (1993)
Innocent Blood (1992)
The King of Ads (1991)
The Sect (1991)
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
The Church (1989)
Opera (1987)
Night Shift (1987)
Dario Argento’s Nightmares (1987)
Demons 2 (1986)
Demons (1985)
Phenomena (1985)
Tenebre (1982)
Inferno (1980)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Suspiria (1977)
Deep Red (1975)
The Five Days (1973)
Door Into Darkness (1973)
Man Called Amen (1972)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
The 5-Man Army (1969)
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Love Circle (1969)
The Sexual Revolution (1968)
Commandos (1968)
Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)
Pardon, Are You for or Against? (1966)
The Sandman
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Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-09-07 (84 years old)
Birth Place
Rome, Italy
Relationships
Daria Nicolodi (1974 - 1985)
Children
Fiore Argento, Asia Argento
Father
Salvatore Argento
Siblings
Claudio Argento
Citizenships
Italy
Also Known As
Sirio Bernadotte, 다리오 아르젠토, 达里奥·阿基多
Awards
Sitges Grand Honorary Award, Time Machine Award, Sitges Film Festival Best Director award, David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement
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