Dario Argento
Director·b. 1940·Rome, Lazio, Italy
45 horror credits
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.
Director23 films
CVLT
Director
Dark Glasses
Director
Dracula 3D
Director
Giallo
Director
The Mother of Tears
Director
Pelts
Director
Jenifer
Director
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director
The Card Player
Director
Sleepless
Director
The Phantom of the Opera
Director
The Stendhal Syndrome
Director
Trauma
Director
Two Evil Eyes
Director
Opera
Director
Phenomena
Director
Tenebre
Director
Inferno
Director
Suspiria
Director
Deep Red
Director
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Director
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director
Writer27 films
CVLT
Story / Screenplay
Dark Glasses
Screenplay
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
Dracula 3D
Writer
Giallo
Screenplay
The Mother of Tears
Writer
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Writer
The Card Player
Screenplay / Story
Sleepless
Screenplay / Story
The Phantom of the Opera
Screenplay
The Wax Mask
Story
The Stendhal Syndrome
Writer / Story
Trauma
Writer
The Sect
Writer
Two Evil Eyes
Screenplay
The Church
Story / Screenplay
Opera
Story / Screenplay
Demons 2
Writer
Demons
Screenplay
Phenomena
Screenplay / Story
Tenebre
Story / Screenplay
Inferno
Screenplay / Story
Suspiria
Screenplay
Deep Red
Writer
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Screenplay / Story
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Story / Screenplay
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Story / Screenplay
Producer15 films
She Will
Producer
The Mother of Tears
Producer
The Card Player
Producer
Sleepless
Producer
The Wax Mask
Producer
The Stendhal Syndrome
Producer
Trauma
Producer
The Sect
Producer
Two Evil Eyes
Executive Producer
The Church
Producer
Opera
Producer
Demons 2
Producer
Demons
Producer
Phenomena
Producer
Dawn of the Dead
Co-Producer
Composer2 films
Dawn of the Dead
Music
Suspiria
Original Music Composer
Actor20 films
The Run
Priest
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
CVLT
Dario Argento
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Himself
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Self
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
Fear in the Dark
Self
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Self
Opera
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Self
Tenebre
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Suspiria
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Deep Red
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Other Crew1 film
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant