Dario Argento

Known for DirectingBorn 1940-09-07 (age 85)Rome, Lazio, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

We Are Cinema

Close Up

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

Out of the Shadows

Fear in the Dark

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Commandments for a Gangster

Non risponde più

Ennio

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

Night Shift

Il mistero della cattedrale

Tales Of The Cat

Homo Cinematographicus

Once Upon a Time in the West

Stephen King's World of Horror

Masters of Horror

Call My Agent: Italy

The Last Movie Painter

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Deep Red

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

Macbeth

Vortex

Friedkin Uncut

Dawn of the Dead

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

Suspiria

CVLT

Tales of the Uncanny

Season of the Senses

Masters of Horror

Nessuno siamo perfetti

Dario Argento: Panico

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

All the Colors of Giallo

Suspiria

Leçon de Cinéma

Two Masters' Eyes

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

Cult of Terror

Ban the Sadist Videos!

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror