Dario Argento
1940-09-07 ( 84 years old ) in 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 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.

Movies

Titanus 1904 2024-10-17
Deep Argento 2023-10-21
CVLT 2023-10-10
Ennio 2022-02-17
Vortex 2022-01-27
We Are Cinema 2021-12-16
Friedkin Uncut 2018-11-05
Cult of Terror 2017-10-14
Close Up 2012-09-30
Linee d'ombra 2007-10-18
Tempus fugit 2006-08-11
Bits & Pieces 1996-02-02
Innocent Blood 1992-09-25
Opera 1987-12-19
Tenebre 1982-10-28
Inferno 1980-02-07
Suspiria 1977-02-01
Deep Red 1975-03-07
The Five Days 1973-12-20