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.

Фільмографія

• 2025La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
• 2023CVLT — Dario Argento, Director, Story, Screenplay
• Call My Agent: Italy — Dario Argento
• Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF — 自己
• 2023Deep Argento
• 2022Dark Glasses — Director, Screenplay
• 2022She Will — Producer, Executive Producer
• Lui è peggio di me
• 2021Vortex — Lui
• 2019Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
• 2018BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
• 2018Dogman's Rabies: Underdog — Thanks
• 2018Суспірія — Original Film Writer
• 2017Of Flies and Maggots
• 2016Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
• 2015Macbeth — Stage Director
• 2012Dracula 3D — Director, Writer
• 2011Masks — Thanks
• 2010Giallo — Screenplay, Director
• 2010The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
• 2009Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
• 2007Director: Dario Argento
• 2007The Mother of Tears — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2006Pelts — Director
• 2006Tempus fugit
• 2005Do You Like Hitchcock? — Director, Writer
• 2005Jenifer — Director
• 2005Out of the Shadows
• Майстри жахів — Director
• 2004The Card Player — Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
• 2004Western all'italiana
• 2004When There's no More Room in Hell
• 2003Two Masters' Eyes
• 2001Sleepless — Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
• 2000Scarlet Diva — Producer
• 1998The Phantom of the Opera — Director, Screenplay
• 1997The Wax Mask — Producer, Story
• 1996Bits & Pieces
• 1996The Stendhal Syndrome — Director, Writer, Producer, Story
• 1994DeGenerazione — Thanks
• 1993Trauma — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1992Невинна кров — Paramedic
• 1991The King of Ads — Director
• 1991The Sect — Writer, Producer
• 1990Two Evil Eyes — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 1989The Church — Story, Presenter, Producer, Screenplay
• Dario Argento’s Nightmares — Director, Writer, Producer, Creator
• Night Shift — Producer, Creator
• 1987Opera — Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited), Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
• 1986Demons 2 — Writer, Producer
• 1985Phenomena — Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story
• 1985Демони — Producer, Screenplay
• 1982Tenebre — Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited), Story, Director, Screenplay
• 1980Inferno — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1978Світанок мерців — Script Consultant, Music, Co-Producer
• 1977Суспірія — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay
• 1975Криваво-червоний — Murderer's Hands (uncredited), Director, Writer
• Door Into Darkness — Self - Host, Self - Host (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer, Creator
• 1973The Five Days — Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited), Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1972Man Called Amen — Writer
• 1971Four Flies on Grey Velvet — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1971The Cat o' Nine Tails — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1970Птах з кришталевим пір'ям — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1969Battle of the Commandos — Screenplay
• 1969Cemetery without Crosses — Writer
• 1969Love Circle — Screenplay
• 1969Possibility Zero — Writer
• 1969Season of the Senses — Writer
• 1969The 5-Man Army — Screenplay, Story
• 1968Commandments for a Gangster — Writer
• 1968Commandos — Screenplay
• 1968The Sexual Revolution — Screenplay
• 1968Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! — Writer
• 1968Одного разу на Дикому Заході — Story
• 1967Every Man Is My Enemy — Additional Writing
• 1966Pardon, Are You for or Against? — Priest (uncredited)
• Between the Living and the Dead — Director
• Carne della mia carne — Screenplay, Supervising Producer
• The Black Velvet Mask — Writer
• The Girl with Crystal Eyes — Writer
• The Sandman — Director
• Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project — Director

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (55)

• 2025The Dark Fantastic — Self
• 2024Dario Argento: Panico — Self
• 2024Titanus 1904 — Self
• 2022DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit — Self
• 2022Ennio — Self
• 2022Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento — self
• 2022Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America — Self
• 2022Tripping The Dark Fantastic — Himself
• 2021Alida Valli: In Her Own Words — Self
• 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Tales of the Uncanny — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Last Movie Painter — Self
• 2019All the Colors of Giallo — Self - Director
• 2019Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta — Self
• 2019The Grand Opening — Self
• 2018Friedkin Uncut — Self
• 2017Cult of Terror — Self - Filmmaker
• 2017Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions — Self - Filmmaker
• 2017Il mistero della cattedrale — self
• 2016Blood on Méliès' Moon — Self
• 2016Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo — Self
• 2015Nessuno siamo perfetti — Self
• 2013Du sang sur la neige — Self
• 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Der Fall der vier Fliegen — Himself (Archive footage 2002)
• 2012Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss — Self
• 2011Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena — Self
• 2011Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist — Self
• 2010L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo — Self
• 2008A Dark Fairy Tale — himself
• 2008The Making of 'Mother of Tears' — Self
• 2007Hanging Shadows — Self
• 2007Linee d'ombra — Self
• 2005Ban the Sadist Videos! — Self
• Leçon de Cinéma — Self
• 2004Mario Bava: Operazione paura — Self
• 2004Non risponde più — Himself
• 2004The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead — Himself
• 2003Italian Kings Of B — Self
• 2002Masters of Horror — Self
• 2001Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera' — Self
• 2001Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror — Self
• 2001Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema — Self - Filmmaker
• 2001Suspiria 25th Anniversary — Self
• 2001Tales Of The Cat — Self
• 1999Dario Argento: My Cinema — Self
• 1998Homo Cinematographicus — Self
• 1997The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors — Self
• 1991Dario Argento: Master of Horror — Self
• 1991Fear in the Dark — Self
• 1989Stephen King's World of Horror — Self
• 1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema — Self
• 1985Dario Argento's World of Horror — Self
• Domenica In — Self
• I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni — Self