Dario Argento

Directing · Born 1940-09-07 in Rome, Lazio, Italy

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,…

Filmography

• Ennio as Self
• Suspiria as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Deep Red as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
• Vortex as Lui
• Innocent Blood as Paramedic
• Tales of the Uncanny as Self (archive footage)
• Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
• The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead as Himself
• Close Up as Self (archive footage)
• Dario Argento's World of Horror as Self

TV

• Door Into Darkness as Self - Host
• Leçon de Cinéma as Self
• Door Into Darkness as Self - Host (uncredited)
• Call My Agent: Italy as Dario Argento