 Argento was born in Rome on 07th September 1940 the son of movie producer Salvatore Argento. He started his career as a movie critic for the Rome daily Paese Sera.
He became a professional screenwriter aged 20 and joined Bernardo Bertolucci in writing the screenplay for Sergio Leone’s epic western Once Upon A Time In The West in 1967.
Several screenplays later, Argento caught the attention of Goffredo Lombardo, head of Titanus, an Italian film company, and consequently made his directing debut in 1970 with the bird with the crystal plumage. His father Salvatore was the producer on all his films up until ‘profondo rosso’ when Claudio Argento took over.
He has always taken a great interest in all aspects of the film making process to ensure that the end results is as near to his original vision as possible. He was certainly one of the first directors to see the possibilities of the steady cam and luma crane and has used them to their full potential. He even helps compose the music for some of his films, most notably profondo rosso, suspiria and dawn of the dead.
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