Dario Argento
Directing
Born: September 7, 1940 (age 85) · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
Suspiria
1977
Suspiria
2018
Dawn of the Dead
1978
Deep Red
1975
Phenomena
1985
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
Tenebre
1982
Inferno
1980
Demons
1985
Opera
1987
The Mother of Tears
2007
Photos (4)
Movies (19)
Suspiria
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Innocent Blood
Paramedic
Deep Red
Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
Tenebre
Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Opera
Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Vortex
Lui
Bits & Pieces
1996
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Priest (uncredited)
Deep Argento
2023
The Five Days
Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
CVLT
Dario Argento
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (46)
Domenica In
Self · 2 eps
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · 2 eps
Ennio
Self
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host · 4 eps
Door Into Darkness
Self - Host (uncredited) · 4 eps
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Dario Argento: Panico
Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Self
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Italian Kings Of B
Self
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self
Fear in the Dark
Self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
Linee d'ombra
Self
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Himself
Stephen King's World of Horror
Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Self
All the Colors of Giallo
Self - Director
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
self
Masters of Horror
Self
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Self
Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
Titanus 1904
Self
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Self
The Dark Fantastic
Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Self
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Self
The Last Movie Painter
Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Self
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Self
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Self
Du sang sur la neige
Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Himself
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Self
Upcoming (3)
Directing (29)
Masters of Horror
Director
Suspiria
Director
Deep Red
Director
Phenomena
Director
Tenebre
Director
Opera
Director
Jenifer
Director
Dark Glasses
Director
Inferno
Director
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Director
Two Evil Eyes
Director
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director
The Stendhal Syndrome
Director
Door Into Darkness
Director
The Phantom of the Opera
Director
Dracula 3D
Director
Trauma
Director
The King of Ads
Director
The Card Player
Director
Sleepless
Director
Giallo
Director
Pelts
Director
The Mother of Tears
Director
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
Director
The Five Days
Director
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director
Macbeth
Stage Director
CVLT
Director
Writing (57)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Story
Suspiria
Screenplay
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
Deep Red
Writer
Demons
Screenplay
Phenomena
Screenplay
Phenomena
Story
Tenebre
Screenplay
Tenebre
Story
Opera
Story
Opera
Screenplay
Man Called Amen
Writer
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
Writer
Dark Glasses
Screenplay
Inferno
Screenplay
Inferno
Story
Demons 2
Writer
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Story
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Screenplay
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Screenplay
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Story
Two Evil Eyes
Screenplay
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Story
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Screenplay
The Stendhal Syndrome
Writer
The Stendhal Syndrome
Story
Door Into Darkness
Writer
The Church
Story
The Church
Screenplay
The Phantom of the Opera
Screenplay
Dracula 3D
Writer
The 5-Man Army
Screenplay
The 5-Man Army
Story
Trauma
Writer
The Card Player
Story
The Card Player
Screenplay
Sleepless
Screenplay
Sleepless
Story
Cemetery without Crosses
Writer
Commandos
Screenplay
Giallo
Screenplay
The Sect
Writer
The Wax Mask
Story
Love Circle
Screenplay
Battle of the Commandos
Screenplay
Possibility Zero
Writer
The Mother of Tears
Writer
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
Writer
The Five Days
Story
The Five Days
Screenplay
The Sexual Revolution
Screenplay
Season of the Senses
Writer
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Writer
Commandments for a Gangster
Writer
CVLT
Story
CVLT
Screenplay
Producing (20)
Dawn of the Dead
Co-Producer
Demons
Producer
Phenomena
Producer
Opera
Producer
Demons 2
Producer
Scarlet Diva
Producer
Two Evil Eyes
Executive Producer
The Stendhal Syndrome
Producer
Door Into Darkness
Producer
The Church
Producer
Trauma
Producer
The Card Player
Producer
Sleepless
Producer
Night Shift
Producer
She Will
Producer
She Will
Executive Producer
The Sect
Producer
The Wax Mask
Producer
The Mother of Tears
Producer
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
Producer
Other Crew (10)
Suspiria
Original Music Composer
Dawn of the Dead
Music
Door Into Darkness
Creator
The Church
Presenter
DeGenerazione
Thanks
Night Shift
Creator
Every Man Is My Enemy
Additional Writing
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
Creator
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Thanks
Masks
Thanks