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Dario Argento

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Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)

Person · Open Library

Works
11

Top works

  • Dylan Dog
  • Fear
  • Paura
  • The bird with the crystal plumage
  • Il cinema horror in Italia

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Film & TV

Directing · 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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1940

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Listeners
3,635
Total plays
10,253

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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)

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Wikidata facts

Image
Dario Argento 2014.jpg
Number of children
2
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Commons category
Dario Argento
date of birth
1940-09-07
start of work period
1966-00-00
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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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