Dario Argento
Directing
🎂 1940-09-07
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.
Cast credits(83)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Self
1976
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1980
Self
1989
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
1975
Self (archive footage)
2021
Self
2022
Paramedic
1992
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
1987
Self
2004
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
1982
Self - Host
1973
Self - Host (uncredited)
1973
Dario Argento
2023
Self
2001
Self (archive footage)
2012
Self
2022
1996
Self
2013
Sé stesso
2019
Self
2010
Self
2024
Himself
2004
Self
2021
Lui
2022
Priest (uncredited)
1966
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Self
2018
Self
1991
Self (archive footage)
2020
Dario Argento
2023
2021
Self
1985
Self
2004
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
1973
Self
2024
Self
2001
2004
Self
2015
Self - Director
2019
Self
2012
Himself
1991
2025
Self
2020
Self
2007
自己
2023
Self
1999
Self
2005
Self
2011
Himself
2016
Self - Filmmaker
2001
2016
Self
Self
2003
Self
2025
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Self
1998
Self
2007
self
2017
Self
1985
Self
2016
Self
2002
2017
2023
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2012
Himself
2004
Self
2001
2019
Himself
2022
2004
2009
Himself
2011
2003
Himself
1997
2005
self
2022
2006
Himself
2019
Self
2001
Self
2008
2007
Self
2022
himself
2008
Writing (57)
Story
1968
Original Film Writer
2018
Screenplay
1977
Script Consultant
1978
Screenplay
1985
Story
1989
Screenplay
1989
Screenplay
1980
Story
1980
Writer
1975
Screenplay
1985
Story
1985
Screenplay
1968
Writer
2012
Screenplay
1970
Story
1970
Story
1987
Screenplay
1987
Writer
1996
Story
1996
Story
1982
Screenplay
1982
Writer
1986
Screenplay
1990
Story
1971
Screenplay
1971
Writer
1991
Writer
1973
Screenplay
2022
Story
1971
Screenplay
1971
Writer
2005
Screenplay
1969
Story
1969
Screenplay
2001
Story
2001
Writer
1968
Writer
1972
Writer
1993
Writer
1969
Screenplay
1998
Writer
2007
Story
1997
Screenplay
1969
Screenplay
2004
Story
2004
Story
2023
Screenplay
2023
Screenplay
2010
Story
1973
Screenplay
1973
Screenplay
1968
Screenplay
1969
Writer
1968
Writer
1969
Writer
1987
Writer
1969
Directing (31)
Director
2005
Director
1977
Director
1980
Director
1975
Director
1985
Director
2012
Director
1970
Director
1987
Director
2005
Director
1996
Director
1982
Director
1990
Director
1971
Director
1973
Director
1991
Director
2022
Director
1971
Director
2005
Director
2001
Director
2006
Director
1993
Director
1998
Director
2007
Director
2004
Director
2023
Director
2010
Director
1973
Director
1987
Director
Stage Director
2015
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