Claudio Argento (born 15 September 1943) is an Italian film producer and screenwriter. He is the younger brother of film director Dario Argento and is frequently described as his regular or principal producer.
Career
Argento has been associated with a number of Dario Argento’s major works of the 1970s and 1980s. Retrospective analyses of
Santa Sangre note that he produced several of Dario Argento’s key titles, including
Deep Red (1975),
Suspiria (1977),
Inferno (1980) and
Tenebrae (1982).
Santa Sangre
Argento’s most prominent project outside his work with Dario Argento is
Santa Sangre (1989), directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
The Festival de Cannes officially credits him as one of the film’s screenwriters and producers.
The film is presented as a Mexican-Italian co-production initially developed by
Roberto Leoni and
Claudio Argento prior to Jodorowsky’s involvement.
Dawn of the Dead and other projects
Argento also worked as an associate producer on George A. Romero’s
Dawn of the Dead (1978). The Australian Centre for the Moving Image lists him among the film’s producers in its database entry on the film,
and the collaboration is discussed in scholarship on Italian popular cinema and horror co-productions.
In the late 2000s Argento remained associated with Italian genre cinema. In 2010 Variety reported that he had written a screenplay for a proposed 3D remake of Dario Argento’s Deep Red to be directed by Romero.
Personal life
Argento was born in
Rome, the son of
Sicilians film producer and executive Salvatore Argento (1914–1987) and Brazilian photographer Elda Luxardo (1915–2013), who was of Italian ancestry.
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