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Dario Argento

Directing

Dario Argento

Dario Argento is a director born on September 7, 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is known for Once Upon a Time in the West, Suspiria and Deep Red. GloboWatch shows where to watch one of his movies and TV shows, country by country.

Known for
Directing
Born
September 7, 1940
Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Also known as
Sirio Bernadotte · 다리오 아르젠토 · 达里奥·阿基多

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

  1. 2023CVLTas Dario Argento · Director · Story · Screenplay
  2. 2023Call My Agent: Italyas Dario Argento · 1 episode
  3. 2022Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented Americaas Self
  4. 2022She WillProducer · Executive producer
  5. 2022Dark GlassesScreenplay · Director
  6. 2022Ennioas Self
  7. 2021Vortexas Lui
  8. 2020Tales of the Uncannyas Self (archive footage)
  9. 2020The Last Movie Painteras Self
  10. 2019All the Colors of Gialloas Self - Director
  11. 2018Friedkin Uncutas Self
  12. 2016Blood on Méliès' Moonas Self
  13. 2012Dracula 3DDirector · Writer
  14. 2012Horror Europa with Mark Gatissas Self
  15. 2010GialloDirector · Screenplay
  16. 2007The Mother of TearsDirector · Writer · Producer
  17. 2006PeltsDirector
  18. 2005JeniferDirector
  19. 2005Masters of HorrorDirector
  20. 2005Ban the Sadist Videos!as Self
  21. 2005Do You Like Hitchcock?Director · Writer
  22. 2004The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Deadas Himself
  23. 2004The Card PlayerDirector · Producer · Story · Screenplay
  24. 2002Masters of Horroras Self
  25. 2001Sergio Leone: cinema, cinemaas Self - Filmmaker
  26. 2001Dario Argento: An Eye for Horroras Self
  27. 2001SleeplessDirector · Producer · Screenplay · Story
  28. 2000Scarlet DivaProducer
  29. 1998The Phantom of the OperaDirector · Screenplay
  30. 1997The Wax MaskProducer · Story
  31. 1996Bits & Pieces
  32. 1996The Stendhal SyndromeDirector · Writer · Producer · Story
  33. 1993TraumaDirector · Producer · Writer
  34. 1992Innocent Bloodas Paramedic
  35. 1991The King of AdsDirector
  36. 1991The SectWriter · Producer
  37. 1990Two Evil EyesScreenplay · Director · Executive producer
  38. 1989The ChurchStory · Producer · Screenplay
  39. 1987Operaas Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited) · Producer · Story · Screenplay · Director
  40. 1986Demons 2Producer · Writer
  41. 1985DemonsScreenplay · Producer
  42. 1985PhenomenaProducer · Director · Screenplay · Story
  43. 1985Dario Argento's World of Horroras Self
  44. 1982Tenebreas Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited) · Screenplay · Director · Story
  45. 1980Infernoas Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · Screenplay · Director · Story
  46. 1977Suspiriaas Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · Music · Director · Screenplay
  47. 1975Deep Redas Murderer's Hands (uncredited) · Director · Writer
  48. 1973Door Into Darknessas Self - Host · 4 episodes · Writer · Director · Producer · Creator
  49. 1973The Five Daysas Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited) · Director · Story · Screenplay
  50. 1971Four Flies on Grey VelvetScreenplay · Story · Director
  51. 1971The Cat o' Nine TailsStory · Screenplay · Director
  52. 1970The Bird with the Crystal PlumageDirector · Story · Screenplay
  53. 1969The 5-Man ArmyScreenplay · Story
  54. 1969Battle of the CommandosScreenplay
  55. 1969Love CircleScreenplay
  56. 1969Cemetery without CrossesWriter
  57. 1968Once Upon a Time in the WestStory
  58. 1968CommandosScreenplay
  59. 1968Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!Writer
  60. 1966Pardon, Are You for or Against?as Priest (uncredited)