
Directing
Born February 24, 1909 · Alexandria, Egypt
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.

Murder Obsession
1981

Tragic Ceremony
1972

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971

Tamar Wife of Er
1971

Double Face
1969

Mexican Slayride
1967

Death at Owell Rock
1967

Trap for the Assassin
1966

The Exterminators
1965

The Two Orphans
1965

Romeo e Giulietta
1964

The Magnificent Adventurer
1963

The Ghost
1963

Gold for the Caesars
1963

The Seventh Sword
1962

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962

The Witch's Curse
1962

Manhunt
1961

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961

The Mongols
1961

The Giants of Thessaly
1960

Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
1959

The White Warrior
1959

Lust of the Vampire
1957

Ambush in Tangier
1957

Castle of the Banned Lovers
1956

From Here to the Inheritance
1955

Theodora, Slave Empress
1954
Mosaici a Ravenna, I
1954

Sins of Rome
1953

The Legend of Piave
1952

Revenge of the Black Eagle
1951

Double Cross
1951

Vedi Napoli e poi muori
1951
Magia a prezzi modici
1950

The Son of d'Artagnan
1950

The Iron Swordsman
1949

O Caçula do Barulho
1949

The Mysterious Rider
1948

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
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 of Bazan
1942

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007

Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
1998

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997

Once Around the Park
1989

Lust of the Vampire
1957

Sundown
1941

The Little Adventurers
1939