Dario Argento profile
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Dario Argento

7th September 1940 Rome, Lazio, Italy Directing

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.

62 Movies 6 TV Shows 86 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

CVLT poster
CVLT 10th October 2023 as Dario Argento
Ennio poster
Ennio 17th February 2022 as Self
Close Up poster
Close Up 30th September 2012 as Self (archive footage)
Opera poster
Opera 19th December 1987 as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Tenebre poster
Tenebre 28th October 1982 as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno poster
Inferno 7th February 1980 as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Suspiria poster
Suspiria 1st February 1977 as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Deep Red poster
Deep Red 7th March 1975 as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
The Five Days poster
The Five Days 24th April 1973 as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)