Riccardo Freda
Directing
Biography
Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) was an Italian film director. He worked in a variety of genres, including sword-and-sandal, horror, giallo and spy films. Freda began directing I Vampiri in 1956. The film became the first Italian sound horror film production. Riccardo Freda was born in 1909 in Alexandria, Egypt to Italian parents. Freda attended school in Milan where he took art classes at the Centro Sperimantale. After school he took on work as a sculptor and art critic. Freda first began working in the film industry in 1937 and directed his first film Don Cesare di Bazan in 1942. Freda began directing I Vampiri. I Vampiri was the first Italian horror film of the sound era, following the lone silent horror film Il mostro di Frankenstein (1920) Despite being the first, a wave of Italian horror productions did not follow until Mario Bava's film Black Sunday was released internationally.
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Movies (56)
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento2022self- Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema2007
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co2000Self- Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda1998
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors1997Self
Once Around the Park1989Ricardo, le réalisateur
Murder Obsession1981Directing
Tragic Ceremony1972Directing
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire1971Directing
Tamar Wife of Er1971Directing
Double Face1969Directing
Mexican Slayride1967Directing
Death at Owell Rock1967Directing
Trap for the Assassin1966Directing
The Exterminators1965Directing
The Two Orphans1965Directing
Romeo e Giulietta1964Directing
The Magnificent Adventurer1963Directing
The Ghost1963Directing
Gold for the Caesars1963Directing
The Seventh Sword1962Directing
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock1962Directing
The Witch's Curse1962Directing
Manhunt1961Directing
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World1961Directing
The Mongols1961Directing
The Giants of Thessaly1960Directing
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster1959Directing
The White Warrior1959Directing
Lust of the Vampire1957Il dottore (uncredited)