Dario Argento
Directing
- Born:
- 1940-09-07
- Place of birth:
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
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 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Golden Years of Dario Argento
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
The Dark Fantastic
Titanus 1904
Dario Argento: Panico
Deep Argento
CVLT
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
Call My Agent: Italy
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Ennio
We Are Cinema
Vortex
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Lui è peggio di me
Tales of the Uncanny
The Last Movie Painter
The Grand Opening
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
All the Colors of Giallo
Friedkin Uncut
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
Cult of Terror
Il mistero della cattedrale
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Of Flies and Maggots
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Du sang sur la neige
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Close Up
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
A Dark Fairy Tale
Linee d'ombra
Director: Dario Argento
Hanging Shadows
Tempus fugit
Out of the Shadows
Ban the Sadist Videos!
When There's no More Room in Hell
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Leçon de Cinéma
Non risponde più
Western all'italiana
Two Masters' Eyes
Italian Kings Of B
Masters of Horror
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Tales Of The Cat
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Homo Cinematographicus
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Bits & Pieces
Innocent Blood
Fear in the Dark
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Stephen King's World of Horror
Opera
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Tenebre
Inferno
Suspiria
Domenica In
Deep Red
Door Into Darkness
The Five Days
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni