Dario Argento
Directing
84
Acting Credits
28
Directed
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 s...
Known For
Filmography
The Dark Fantastic
2025
as Self
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
as Self
Titanus 1904
2024
as Self
CVLT
2023
as Dario Argento
Deep Argento
2023
Call My Agent: Italy
2023
as Dario Argento
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
2023
as 自己
Ennio
2022
as Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
as Himself
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
as Self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
as Self
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
as self
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
as Self
Vortex
2021
as Lui
Lui è peggio di me
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Movie Painter
2020
as Self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
as Self - Director
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
as Self
The Grand Opening
2019
as Self
Friedkin Uncut
2018
as Self
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
Cult of Terror
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
as self
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
as Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
as Self
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
as Self
Du sang sur la neige
2013
as Self
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
as Himself (Archive footage 2002)
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
as Self
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
as Self
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
as Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
as Self
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008
as himself
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008
as Self
Linee d'ombra
2007
as Self
Hanging Shadows
2007
as Self
Director: Dario Argento
2007
Tempus fugit
2006
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
as Self
Out of the Shadows
2005
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
as Himself
Non risponde più
2004
as Himself
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
as Self
Western all'italiana
2004
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
as Self
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
Italian Kings Of B
2003
as Self
Masters of Horror
2002
as Self
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
as Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
as Self
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
as Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
as Self - Filmmaker
Tales Of The Cat
2001
as Self
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
as Self
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
as Self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
as Self
Bits & Pieces
1996
Innocent Blood
1992
as Paramedic
Fear in the Dark
1991
as Self
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
as Self
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
as Self
Opera
1987
as Narrator (Italian version) (voice) (uncredited)
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
as Self
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
Tenebre
1982
as Narrator / Murderer's Hands (voice) (uncredited)
Inferno
1980
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Suspiria
1977
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Domenica In
1976
as Self
Deep Red
1975
as Murderer's Hands (uncredited)
The Five Days
1973
as Bandaged Man with Tranzunto (uncredited)
Door Into Darkness
1973
as Self - Host
Door Into Darkness
1973
as Self - Host (uncredited)
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
as Priest (uncredited)