Dario Argento
Directing
Born 1940-09-07
Rome, Lazio, Italy
137 credits
David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1
Sitges Grand Honorary Award 1
Time Machine Award 1
Sitges Film Festival Best Director award 1
Awards
Won 1 David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement Award
David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement 1 won
- — Lifetime Achievement Won
Sitges Grand Honorary Award 1 won
- 2022 Sitges Grand Honorary Award Won
Time Machine Award 1 won
- 1999 Time Machine Award Won
Sitges Film Festival Best Director award 1 won
- 1976 Sitges Film Festival Best Director award Won Deep Red
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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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Filmography
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Directing
25 credits
Masters of Horror
Suspiria
Deep Red
Phenomena
Opera
Dracula 3D
Tenebre
Two Evil Eyes
Inferno
Dark Glasses
Door Into Darkness
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
The Cat o' Nine Tails
The Card Player
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Phantom of the Opera
Jenifer
Trauma
Pelts
Sleepless
Giallo
The King of Ads
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
The Mother of Tears
Writing
33 credits
Once Upon a Time in the West
Suspiria
Deep Red
Demons
Phenomena
Opera
Dracula 3D
Tenebre
Two Evil Eyes
Inferno
Dark Glasses
Door Into Darkness
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Church
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
The Cat o' Nine Tails
The Card Player
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Phantom of the Opera
Demons 2
Trauma
Man Called Amen
The 5-Man Army
Cemetery Without Crosses
Sleepless
Night Shift
Giallo
The Sect
The Wax Mask
Commandos
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
The Mother of Tears
Acting
24 credits
Domenica In
Dawn of the Dead
Suspiria
Suspiria
Ennio
Deep Red
Leçon de Cinéma
Innocent Blood
Opera
Call My Agent: Italy
Tenebre
Inferno
Door Into Darkness
The Church
Vortex
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Friedkin Uncut
Homo Cinematographicus
Every Man Is My Enemy
Close Up
Du sang sur la neige
We Are Cinema
Tales of the Uncanny
Producing
19 credits
Dawn of the Dead
Demons
Phenomena
Opera
Two Evil Eyes
Door Into Darkness
Scarlet Diva
The Church
The Card Player
The Stendhal Syndrome
Demons 2
Trauma
Sleepless
She Will
Night Shift
The Sect
The Wax Mask
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
The Mother of Tears
Other credits
6 credits
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