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.

Most Known For

Suspiria

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Leçon de Cinéma

as Self

Opera

as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)

Call My Agent: Italy

as Dario Argento

Homo Cinematographicus

as Self

Domenica In

as Self

Deep Red

as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)

Ennio

as Self

Deep Argento

Innocent Blood

as Paramedic

Inferno

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Door Into Darkness

as Self - Host

Door Into Darkness

as Self - Host (uncredited)

Tenebre

as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)

Dario Argento: Panico

as Self

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

as Self

Linee d'ombra

as Self

Masters of Horror

as Self

Vortex

as Lui

Tales of the Uncanny

as Self (archive footage)