Dario Argento

Born in September 7th, 1940

From Roma, Lazio, Italia

Dario Argento 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.

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Dario Argento Movies

Ennio Poster
February 9, 2024
Vortex Poster
September 30, 2021
She Will Poster
September 26, 2021
Suspiria Poster
October 26, 2018
Dracula 3D Poster
October 4, 2013
Jenifer Poster
November 18, 2005
The Card Player Poster
October 6, 2004
Sleepless Poster
August 24, 2001

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