Dario Argento
Born September 07, 1940 (Age: 85)
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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, 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.
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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Filmography
Ennio
2022
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as Self
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Age: 81
We Are Cinema
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 81
Vortex
2021
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as Lui
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Age: 81
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
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as
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Age: 77
No Image
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
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as self
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Age: 77
Close Up
2012
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 72
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
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as Self
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Age: 70
No Image
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
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as Himself
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Age: 70
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
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as Self
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Age: 70
No Image
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
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as
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Age: 69
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
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Age: 68
Linee d'ombra
2007
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as Self
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Age: 67
No Image
Director: Dario Argento
2007
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Age: 67
No Image
Tempus fugit
2006
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Age: 65
No Image
Out of the Shadows
2005
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Age: 65
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
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as
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Age: 64
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
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as Self
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Age: 63
No Image
Non risponde più
2004
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as Himself
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Age: 63
No Image
Western all'italiana
2004
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as
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Age: 63
Masters of Horror
2002
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as Self
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Age: 62
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
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as Self
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Age: 58
No Image
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
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as Self
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Age: 57
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
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as Himself
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Age: 56
Bits & Pieces
1996
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as
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Age: 55
Innocent Blood
1992
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as Paramedic
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Age: 52
Fear in the Dark
1991
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as Self
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Age: 51
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
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as Himself
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Age: 50
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
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as Self
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Age: 48
Opera
1987
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as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 47
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
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as Self
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Age: 44
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
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as Self
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Age: 44
Inferno
1980
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as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 39
Suspiria
1977
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as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Deep Red
1975
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as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
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Age: 34
The Five Days
1973
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as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
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Age: 32