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Dario Argento
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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 stil…
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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.
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Dario Argento's Filmography
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The Golden Years of Dario Argento
as Himself
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
The Dark Fantastic
as Self
Titanus 1904
as Self
Dario Argento: Panico
as Self
Deep Argento
CVLT
as Dario Argento
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
as self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
as Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
as Himself
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
Ennio
as Self
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Vortex
as Lui
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Movie Painter
as Self
No Poster
The Grand Opening
as Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
All the Colors of Giallo
as Self - Director
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
Cult of Terror
as Self - Filmmaker
No Poster
Il mistero della cattedrale
as self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Filmmaker
Of Flies and Maggots
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Blood on Méliès' Moon
as Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
as Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
as Self
Du sang sur la neige
as Self
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
as Self
No Poster
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
as Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
as Self
No Poster
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
No Poster
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
as Self
No Poster
A Dark Fairy Tale
as himself
Linee d'ombra
as Self
No Poster
Director: Dario Argento
No Poster
Hanging Shadows
as Self
No Poster
Tempus fugit
No Poster
Out of the Shadows
Ban the Sadist Videos!
as Self
When There's no More Room in Hell
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
as Himself
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
No Poster
Non risponde più
as Himself
No Poster
Western all'italiana
No Poster
Two Masters' Eyes
Italian Kings Of B
as Self
Masters of Horror
as Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
as Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
as Self
No Poster
Tales Of The Cat
as Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
as Self
No Poster
Deep Red 25th Anniversary
Dario Argento: My Cinema
as Self
No Poster
Homo Cinematographicus
as Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
as Self
Bits & Pieces
Innocent Blood
as Paramedic
Fear in the Dark
as Self
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
as Self
Stephen King's World of Horror
as Self
Opera
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
Dario Argento's World of Horror
as Self
Tenebre
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Suspiria
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Deep Red
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
The Five Days
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Priest (uncredited)
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self