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Dario Argento
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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 recal…
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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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2025
The Dark Fantastic
Movie Self
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2024
Titanus 1904
Movie Self
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2024
Dario Argento: Panico
Movie Self
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2023
Deep Argento
Movie
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2023
CVLT
Movie Dario Argento
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2023
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
TV show 自己
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2023
Call My Agent: Italy
TV show Dario Argento
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2022
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Movie self
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2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Movie Self
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2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Movie Himself
- 2022
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2022
She Will
Movie Producer
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2022
Dark Glasses
Movie Director
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2022
Ennio
Movie Self
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2021
We Are Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Vortex
Movie Lui
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2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Movie Self
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2021
Lui è peggio di me
TV show
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2020
Tales of the Uncanny
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
The Last Movie Painter
Movie Self
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2019
The Grand Opening
Movie Self
- 2019
- 2019
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2019
All the Colors of Giallo
Movie Self - Director
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2018
Friedkin Uncut
Movie Self
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2018
Suspiria
Movie Original Film Writer
- 2018
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2018
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Movie Thanks
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2017
Cult of Terror
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2017
Il mistero della cattedrale
Movie self
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2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2017
Of Flies and Maggots
Movie
- 2016
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2016
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Movie Self
- 2016
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2015
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Movie Self
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2015
Macbeth
Movie Stage Director
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2013
Du sang sur la neige
Movie Self
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2012
Dracula 3D
Movie Director
