Dario Argento
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
Suspiria
1977
0Domenica In
1976
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
Ennio
2022
Deep Red
1975
Door Into Darkness
1973
Door Into Darkness
1973
Innocent Blood
1992
Opera
1987
Call My Agent: Italy
2023
Tenebre
1982
Inferno
1980
Filmography
Suspiria
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1977
Domenica In
as Self · 1976
Leçon de Cinéma
as Self · 2004
Ennio
as Self · 2022
Deep Red
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited) · 1975
Door Into Darkness
as Self - Host · 1973
Door Into Darkness
as Self - Host (uncredited) · 1973
Innocent Blood
as Paramedic · 1992
Opera
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited) · 1987
Call My Agent: Italy
as Dario Argento · 2023
Tenebre
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited) · 1982
Inferno
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1980
Lui è peggio di me
· 2021
Vortex
as Lui · 2021
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self · 2022
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Priest (uncredited) · 1966
Ban the Sadist Videos!
as Self · 2005
Italian Kings Of B
as Self · 2003
Bits & Pieces
· 1996
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker · 2001
Deep Argento
· 2023
Friedkin Uncut
as Self · 2018
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Filmmaker · 2017
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage) · 2021
Du sang sur la neige
as Self · 2013
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self (archive footage) · 2020
All the Colors of Giallo
as Self - Director · 2019
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
· 2025
Fear in the Dark
as Self · 1991
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self · 2012
Masters of Horror
as Self · 2002
Close Up
as Self (archive footage) · 2012
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self · 1985
The Five Days
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited) · 1973
Of Flies and Maggots
· 2017
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
as 自己 · 2023
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self · 2004
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
as Self · 2010
Blood on Méliès' Moon
as Self · 2016
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
as Self · 1991
Homo Cinematographicus
as Self · 1998
Dario Argento: Panico
as Self · 2024
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
as Himself · 2004
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
as self · 2022
Stephen King's World of Horror
as Self · 1989
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
as Self · 1997
Cult of Terror
as Self - Filmmaker · 2017
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
· 2016
Linee d'ombra
as Self · 2007
The Last Movie Painter
as Self · 2020
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
as Self · 2001
Dario Argento's World of Horror
as Self · 1985
Two Masters' Eyes
· 2003
The Dark Fantastic
as Self · 2025
Il mistero della cattedrale
as self · 2017
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Self · 2019
Non risponde più
as Himself · 2004
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
as Self · 2001
Tales Of The Cat
as Self · 2001
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
as Self · 2001
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
as Himself · 2022
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
· 2010
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
· 2018
Nessuno siamo perfetti
as Self · 2015
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
as Self · 2011
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
as Self · 2016
Titanus 1904
as Self · 2024
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self · 2021
A Dark Fairy Tale
as himself · 2008
Out of the Shadows
· 2005
Hanging Shadows
as Self · 2007
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
as Himself (Archive footage 2002) · 2012
Dario Argento: My Cinema
as Self · 1999
When There's no More Room in Hell
· 2004
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
as Self · 2008
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
as Self · 2022
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
as Self · 2011
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
· 2019
Western all'italiana
· 2004
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
· 2009
Tempus fugit
· 2006
Director: Dario Argento
· 2007
CVLT
as Dario Argento · 2023
The Grand Opening
as Self · 2019
The Golden Years of Dario Argento
as Himself · 2026