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).
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Run
Character:Priest
Release Date:28/10/2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Character:
Release Date:11/09/2025
The Dark Fantastic
Character:Self
Release Date:15/06/2025
Titanus 1904
Character:Self
Release Date:17/10/2024
Dario Argento: Panico
Character:Self
Release Date:14/10/2024
Deep Argento
Character:
Release Date:21/10/2023
CVLT
Character:Dario Argento
Release Date:10/10/2023
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Character:self
Release Date:02/12/2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Character:Himself
Release Date:29/10/2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Character:Self
Release Date:20/10/2022
Ennio
Character:Self
Release Date:17/02/2022
We Are Cinema
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/12/2021
Vortex
Character:Lui
Release Date:16/10/2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Character:Self
Release Date:17/05/2021
Tales of the Uncanny
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:31/10/2020
The Last Movie Painter
Character:Self
Release Date:06/02/2020
The Grand Opening
Character:Himself
Release Date:24/09/2019
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Character:Self
Release Date:05/09/2019
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
Character:
Release Date:03/07/2019
All the Colors of Giallo
Character:Self - Director
Release Date:29/01/2019
Friedkin Uncut
Character:Self
Release Date:05/11/2018
Cult of Terror
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:14/10/2017
Il mistero della cattedrale
Character:self
Release Date:02/10/2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:06/08/2017
Of Flies and Maggots
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Release Date:08/05/2017
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
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Release Date:05/09/2016
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Character:Self
Release Date:01/05/2016
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Character:Himself
Release Date:23/02/2016
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Character:Self
Release Date:18/06/2015
Du sang sur la neige
Character:Self
Release Date:15/11/2013
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Character:Self
Release Date:30/10/2012
Close Up
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/09/2012
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Character:Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Release Date:06/07/2012
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Character:Self
Release Date:14/03/2011
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Character:Himself
Release Date:07/03/2011
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Character:Self
Release Date:07/09/2010
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Character:
Release Date:03/09/2010
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
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Release Date:06/02/2009
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Character:Self
Release Date:23/09/2008
A Dark Fairy Tale
Character:himself
Release Date:27/05/2008
Linee d'ombra
Character:Self
Release Date:18/10/2007
Director: Dario Argento
Character:
Release Date:25/09/2007
Hanging Shadows
Character:Self
Release Date:14/09/2007
Tempus fugit
Character:
Release Date:11/08/2006
Out of the Shadows
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Release Date:27/10/2005
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Character:Self
Release Date:06/09/2005
When There's no More Room in Hell
Character:
Release Date:04/12/2004
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Character:Himself
Release Date:07/09/2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Character:Self
Release Date:30/04/2004
Non risponde più
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/2004
Western all'italiana
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2004
Two Masters' Eyes
Character:
Release Date:29/04/2003
Italian Kings Of B
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2003
Masters of Horror
Character:Self
Release Date:06/11/2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:22/09/2001
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Character:Self
Release Date:17/09/2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Character:Self
Release Date:11/09/2001
Tales Of The Cat
Character:Self
Release Date:10/07/2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Character:Self
Release Date:15/04/2001
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:13/01/1999
Homo Cinematographicus
Character:Self
Release Date:01/06/1998
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/1997
Bits & Pieces
Character:
Release Date:02/02/1996
Innocent Blood
Character:Paramedic
Release Date:25/09/1992
Fear in the Dark
Character:Self
Release Date:29/10/1991
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/1991
Stephen King's World of Horror
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1989
Opera
Character:Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:19/12/1987
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1985
Tenebre
Character:Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:28/10/1982
Inferno
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:07/02/1980
Suspiria
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:01/02/1977
Deep Red
Character:Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Release Date:07/03/1975
The Five Days
Character:Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Release Date:24/04/1973
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Character:Priest (uncredited)
Release Date:23/12/1966
Television Appearances
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