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.
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
2024
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
Dario Argento
2023
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
self
2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Self
2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022
Ennio
Self
2022
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
2020
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
Friedkin Uncut
Self
2018
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Il mistero della cattedrale
self
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
2016
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self
2015
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
2012
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Himself (Archive footage 2002)
2012
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
A Dark Fairy Tale
himself
2008
Linee d'ombra
Self
2007
Hanging Shadows
Self
2007
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Self
2005
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Himself
2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
2004
Non risponde più
Himself
2004
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Self
2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self
2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
2001
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Himself
1997
Bits & Pieces
1996
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
1992
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self
1989
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Self
1985
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Self
The Run
2025
The Dark Fantastic
Self
2025
Titanus 1904
Self
2024
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
自己 · (2 episodes)
2023
Call My Agent - Italia
Dario Argento · (1 episode)
2023
Vortex
Lui
2022
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
2021
Lui è peggio di me
(1 episode)
2021
The Last Movie Painter
Self
2020
The Grand Opening
Himself
2019
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Sé stesso
2019
All the Colors of Giallo
Self - Director
2019
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Himself
2016
Du sang sur la neige
Self
2013
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
2011
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Himself
2011
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
2010
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Self
2008
Director: Dario Argento
2007
Tempus fugit
2006
Out of the Shadows
2005
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · (2 episodes)
2004
Western all'italiana
2004
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
Italian Kings Of B
Self
2003
Masters of Horror
Self
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
2001
Tales Of The Cat
Self
2001
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Self
1999
Homo Cinematographicus
Self
1998
Fear in the Dark
Self
1991
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Himself
1991
Opera
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
1987
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
1985
Tenebre
Narrator (Italian version) / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
1982
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1980
Suspiria
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Domenica In
Self · (2 episodes)
1976
Deep Red
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
1975
The Five Days
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
1973
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host · (4 episodes)
1973
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host (uncredited) · (4 episodes)
1973
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Priest (uncredited)
1966