Dario Argento
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.
Acting
Movie
Suspiria
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Movie
Deep Red
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
1975
Movie
Tenebre
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
1982
Movie
Inferno
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1980
Movie
Opera
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
1987
Movie
Ennio
as Self
2022
Movie
Vortex
as Lui
2021
Movie
Innocent Blood
as Paramedic
1992
Movie
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
2022
Movie
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
2018
Movie
The Five Days
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
1973
TV
Call My Agent: Italy
as Dario Argento
2023
Movie
Ban the Sadist Videos!
as Self
2005
Movie
All the Colors of Giallo
as Self - Director
2019
Movie
CVLT
as Dario Argento
2023
Movie
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Priest (uncredited)
1966
Movie
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
as Self
2001
Movie
Bits & Pieces
1996
Movie
Masters of Horror
as Self
2002
TV
Door Into Darkness
as Self - Host
1973
TV
Door Into Darkness
as Self - Host (uncredited)
1973
Movie
Dario Argento's World of Horror
as Self
1985
Movie
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self
2012
Movie
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Crew
Movie
Once Upon a Time in the West
Story
1968
Movie
Suspiria
Original Music Composer
1977
Movie
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
2018
Movie
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant
1978
Movie
Deep Red
Director
1975
Movie
Phenomena
Producer
1985
Movie
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director
1970
Movie
Tenebre
Screenplay
1982
Movie
Inferno
Screenplay
1980
Movie
Demons
Screenplay
1985
Movie
Opera
Producer
1987
Movie
The Mother of Tears
Director
2007