Director

Dario Argento

September 7, 1940 · 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.

Notable work

7.5
Suspiria (1977)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) and Director
7.7
Deep Red (1975)
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited) and Director and Writer
6.8
Phenomena (1985)
Director
7.1
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Director
6.8
Tenebre (1982)
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited) and Director
6.6
Inferno (1980)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) and Director
6.8
Opera (1987)
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited) and Director
4.5
The Mother of Tears (2007)
Director and Writer
6.7
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
Director
6.5
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Director
8.3
Ennio (2022)
as Self
6.1
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Director

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