Riccardo Freda
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.
Directed (48)
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
Acting (9)
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