Directing
Dario Argento
IT, EN, FR, ES cinema · 130 credits
Born
7 September 1940 (age 86)
Birthplace
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Also known as Sirio Bernadotte · 다리오 아르젠토 · 达里奥·阿基多
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
Carne della mia carne
Screenplay, Supervising Producer
CVLT
as Dario Argento, Director, Story, Screenplay
Ennio
as Self
She Will
Producer, Executive Producer
Dark Glasses
Screenplay, Director
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Vortex
as Lui
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self (archive footage)
All the Colors of Giallo
as Self - Director
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
Cult of Terror
as Self - Filmmaker
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Filmmaker
Macbeth
Stage Director
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Dracula 3D
Director, Writer
Masks
Thanks
Giallo
Director, Screenplay
The Mother of Tears
Director, Writer, Producer
Pelts
Director
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director, Writer
Jenifer
Director
The Card Player
Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker
Sleepless
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
Scarlet Diva
Producer
The Phantom of the Opera
Director, Screenplay
The Wax Mask
Producer, Story
The Stendhal Syndrome
Director, Writer, Producer, Story
Trauma
Director, Producer, Writer
Innocent Blood
as Paramedic
Fear in the Dark
as Self
The Sect
Writer, Producer
The King of Ads
Director
Two Evil Eyes
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
The Church
Story, Presenter, Producer, Screenplay
Opera
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited), Producer, Story, Screenplay, Director
Demons 2
Producer, Writer
Phenomena
Producer, Director, Screenplay, Story
Demons
Screenplay, Producer
Tenebre
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Story
Inferno
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Story
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant, Music, Co-Producer
Suspiria
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay
Deep Red
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited), Director, Writer
The Five Days
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited), Director, Story, Screenplay
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Screenplay, Story, Director
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Story, Screenplay, Director
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director, Story, Screenplay
The 5-Man Army
Screenplay, Story
Battle of the Commandos
Screenplay
Love Circle
Screenplay
The Sexual Revolution
Screenplay
Commandos
Screenplay
Every Man Is My Enemy
Additional Writing
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Priest (uncredited)