Born
7 September 1940 (85)
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Also known as
Sirio Bernadotte
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 s...
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.
The Run
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Dark Fantastic
2025
Titanus 1904
2024
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
2023
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Dark Glasses
2022
Ennio
2022
We Are Cinema
2021
Vortex
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
The Last Movie Painter
2020
The Grand Opening
2019
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
Friedkin Uncut
2018
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
Cult of Terror
2017
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
Du sang sur la neige
2013
Dracula 3D
2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
Close Up
2012
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010