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Dario Argento

1940 - Today

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Dario Argento (Italian: [ˈdaːrjo arˈdʒɛnto]; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. 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 co-wrote the screenplay for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and served as George A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dario Argento has received more than 2,926,255 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Dario Argento is the 82nd most popular film director (down from 79th in 2019), the 685th most popular biography from Italy (down from 645th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Film Director.

Dario Argento is a famous Italian film director and producer. He is most famous for his horror films, such as "Suspiria" and "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dario Argento ranks 82 out of 2,041. Before him are Sydney Pollack, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, and Costa-Gavras. After him are Carlos Saura, F. W. Murnau, Peter Brook, Fred Zinnemann, Wolfgang Petersen, and Satyajit Ray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Dario Argento ranks 39. Before him are Giorgio Moroder, Kip Thorne, Anna Karina, Raquel Welch, Burt Young, and Terry Gilliam. After him are Abdurrahman Wahid, Tabaré Vázquez, Julie Christie, Paolo Borsellino, H. R. Giger, and Andrzej Żuławski.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dario Argento ranks 685 out of 5,161. Before him are Euhemerus (-330), Silvio Piola (1913), Joanna I of Naples (1326), Eugenio Montale (1896), Francesco Totti (1976), and Gianluigi Buffon (1978). After him are Francis of Paola (1416), Conrad of Montferrat (1146), Camillus de Lellis (1550), Dino Buzzati (1906), Pisanello (1395), and Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Dario Argento ranks 12. Before him are Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Tinto Brass (1933), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), and Franco Zeffirelli (1923). After him are Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Ettore Scola (1931), Sergio Corbucci (1926), Gillo Pontecorvo (1919), Francesco Rosi (1922), and Dino Risi (1916).

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Filmography

Suspiria
Director
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Feb 1o 19777.5 / 10
Deep Red
Director
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods, and the two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Mar 7o 19757.7 / 10
Phenomena
Director
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Jan 25o 19856.8 / 10