Dario Argento
75 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Sep 7, 1940 (age 86)
- 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.
Known for
Dario Argento: movies and TV shows
Acting (27)
- 2025
- 2023
- 2023 CVLT
as Dario Argento
- 2023
- 2023
- 2021 Vortex
as Lui
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2010
- 2009
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004
- 2003
- 1996
- 1992 Innocent Blood
as Paramedic
- 1987 Opera
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
- 1982 Tenebre
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
- 1980 Inferno
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1977 Suspiria
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1975 Deep Red
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
- 1973 The Five Days
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
- 1966 Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Priest (uncredited)
Behind the camera (61)
- Upcoming The Sandman
Director
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Carne della mia carne
Screenplay, Supervising Producer
- Upcoming The Girl with Crystal Eyes
Writer
- Upcoming The Black Velvet Mask
Writer
- Upcoming Between the Living and the Dead
Director
- 2023 CVLT
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 2022 She Will
Producer, Executive Producer
- 2022 Dark Glasses
Director, Screenplay
- 2018 Suspiria
Original Film Writer
- 2018 Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Thanks
- 2015 Macbeth
Stage Director
- 2012 Dracula 3D
Director, Writer
- 2011 Masks
Thanks
- 2010 Giallo
Screenplay, Director
- 2007 The Mother of Tears
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2006 Pelts
Director
- 2005 Jenifer
Director
- 2005
- 2005 Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director, Writer
- 2004 The Card Player
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
- 2001 Sleepless
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
- 2000 Scarlet Diva
Producer
- 1998 The Phantom of the Opera
Director, Screenplay
- 1997 The Wax Mask
Producer, Story
- 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome
Director, Writer, Producer, Story
- 1994 DeGenerazione
Thanks
- 1993 Trauma
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1991 The King of Ads
Director
- 1991 The Sect
Writer, Producer
- 1990 Two Evil Eyes
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
- 1989 The Church
Story, Presenter, Producer, Screenplay
- 1987 Opera
Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
- 1987
- 1987
- 1986 Demons 2
Writer, Producer
- 1985 Demons
Producer, Screenplay
- 1985 Phenomena
Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story
- 1982 Tenebre
Story, Director, Screenplay
- 1980 Inferno
Screenplay, Director, Story
- 1978 Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant, Music, Co-Producer
- 1977 Suspiria
Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay
- 1975 Deep Red
Director, Writer
- 1973
- 1973 The Five Days
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1972 Man Called Amen
Writer
- 1971 Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1971 The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director, Story, Screenplay
- 1970 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director, Screenplay, Story
- 1969 Season of the Senses
Writer
- 1969 The 5-Man Army
Screenplay, Story
- 1969 Battle of the Commandos
Screenplay
- 1969 Possibility Zero
Writer
- 1969 Love Circle
Screenplay
- 1969 Cemetery without Crosses
Writer
- 1968
- 1968 The Sexual Revolution
Screenplay
- 1968 Commandos
Screenplay
- 1968 Commandments for a Gangster
Writer
- 1968
- 1967 Every Man Is My Enemy
Additional Writing
Talk shows and appearances (57)
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 Lui è peggio di me
1 episode
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 Leçon de Cinéma
2 episodes
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997
- 1991
- 1991
- 1989
- 1985
- 1985
- 1976 Domenica In
2 episodes