Dario Argento

Dario Argento was born on September 7 1940 in Rome Italy the firstborn son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his closeknit 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 ownaccording to himwas 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 Cera una volta il West 1968 He is known in italy as Master of Horror