Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1940-09-07 (Age: 86)
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Filmography (78)
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Dark Fantastic
2025
Titanus 1904
2024
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
2023
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Ennio
2022
We Are Cinema
2021
Vortex
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
