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.
Filmography
all 69
Movies 69
Director 49
Writer 8
self 3
Producer 2
For the Love of Nancy (1994)
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
My Name Is Kate (1994)
Once Around the Park (1989)
Murder Obsession (1981)
Tragic Ceremony (1972)
Tamar, Wife of Er (1971)
Double Face (1969)
Mexican Slayride (1967)
Death at Owell Rock (1967)
The Exterminators (1965)
The Two Orphans (1965)
Romeo e Giulietta (1964)
The Ghost (1963)
Gold for the Caesars (1963)
The Seventh Sword (1962)
Alone Against Rome (1962)
The Witch's Curse (1962)
Manhunt (1961)
The Mongols (1961)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)
The White Warrior (1959)
Sign of the Gladiator (1959)
Lust of the Vampire (1957)
Ambush in Tangier (1957)
Castle of the Banned Lovers (1956)
Da qui all'eredità (1955)
Theodora, Slave Empress (1954)
Mosaici a Ravenna, I (1954)
Sins of Rome (1953)
Double Cross (1951)
Magia a prezzi modici (1950)
The Iron Swordsman (1949)
O Caçula do Barulho (1949)
The Mysterious Rider (1948)
Les Misérables (1948)
Guarany (1948)
L'astuto barone (1948)
Tenori per forza (1948)
Aquila Nera (1946)
Non canto più (1945)
Tutta la città canta (1945)
Don Cesare di Bazan (1942)
Sundown (1941)
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941)
Cento lettere d'amore (1940)
The Little Adventurers (1939)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1909-02-24
Deathday1999-12-20 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceAlexandria, Egypt
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Egypt, Italy
AwardsCommandeur des Arts et des Lettres
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