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Dario Argento
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Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer born in Rome on September 7, 1940. He began his work period in 1966 and is associated with the giallo, horror film, and thriller film genres. His notable works include Deep Red, Tenebrae, Suspiria, and The Stendhal Syndrome. Argento is a Catholic and speaks Italian.
He has two children, including Asia Argento, and is the sibling of Claudio Argento. His unmarried partner was Daria Nicolodi. In addition to his film career, he is an author with works such as Dylan Dog, Fear, Paura, The bird with the crystal plumage, and Il cinema horror in Italia. He is recognized as a male person from Italy.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Dylan Dog
- Fear
- Paura
- The bird with the crystal plumage
- Il cinema horror in Italia
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
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…
Known for
- The Dark Fantastic — Self2025
- La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione2025
- Dario Argento: Panico — Self2024
- Titanus 1904 — Self2024
- CVLT — Dario Argento2023
- Deep Argento2023
- Call My Agent: Italy — Dario Argento2023
- Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF — 自己2023
- Ennio — Self2022
- Tripping The Dark Fantastic — Himself2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,635
- Total plays
- 10,253
Tags
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-09-07 ) 7 September 1940 (age 85) , Rome , Kingdom of Italy
- Other name
- Sirio Bernadotte
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter film producer film editor composer actor
- Style
- Horror giallo
- Spouse
- Marisa Casale ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 )
- Partner
- Daria Nicolodi (1974–1985)
- Children
- 2, including Asia
- Relatives
- Claudio Argento (brother)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dario
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Sibling
- Claudio Argento
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
- Genre
- thriller film
- Image
- Dario Argento 2014.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Dario Argento
- date of birth
- 1940-09-07
- unmarried partner
- Daria Nicolodi
- topic's main category
- Category:Dario Argento
- topic has template
- Template:Dario Argento
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Dario Argento
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
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via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Dario Argento ( Italian: [ˈdaːrjo arˈdʒɛnto]; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian filmmaker. His influential work in the horror and giallo genres during the 1970s and 1980s has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the Thrill" and the "Master of Horror".
His films as director include his "Animal Trilogy", consisting of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971); his "Three Mothers" trilogy, consisting of Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980) and The Mother of Tears (2007); and his stand-alone films Deep Red (1975), Tenebrae (1982), Phenomena (1985) and Opera (1987). He also co-wrote the screenplay for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and co-produced George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), as well as editing and scoring the European version of the latter film.
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