Riccardo Freda
Directing
1909-02-24 · 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.
Filmography
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022 · Movie
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007 · Movie
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000 · Movie
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
1998 · Movie
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997 · Movie
For the Love of Nancy
1994 · Movie
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994 · Movie
My Name Is Kate
1994 · Movie
Once Around the Park
1989 · Movie
Murder Obsession
1981 · Movie
Tragic Ceremony
1972 · Movie
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971 · Movie
Tamar Wife of Er
1971 · Movie
Double Face
1969 · Movie
Mexican Slayride
1967 · Movie
Death at Owell Rock
1967 · Movie
Trap for the Assassin
1966 · Movie
The Exterminators
1965 · Movie
The Two Orphans
1965 · Movie
The Revenge of the Crusader
1964 · Movie
Romeo e Giulietta
1964 · Movie
The Magnificent Adventurer
1963 · Movie
The Ghost
1963 · Movie
Gold for the Caesars
1963 · Movie
The Seventh Sword
1962 · Movie
Alone Against Rome
1962 · Movie
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962 · Movie
The Witch's Curse
1962 · Movie
Manhunt
1961 · Movie
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961 · Movie
The Mongols
1961 · Movie
The Giants of Thessaly
1960 · Movie
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
1959 · Movie
The White Warrior
1959 · Movie
Sign of the Gladiator
1959 · Movie
Lust of the Vampire
1957 · Movie
Ambush in Tangier
1957 · Movie
Castle of the Banned Lovers
1956 · Movie
From Here to the Inheritance
1955 · Movie
Theodora, Slave Empress
1954 · Movie
Mosaici a Ravenna, I
1954 · Movie
Sins of Rome
1953 · Movie
The Legend of Piave
1952 · Movie
Revenge of the Black Eagle
1951 · Movie
Double Cross
1951 · Movie
Vedi Napoli e poi muori
1951 · Movie
Magia a prezzi modici
1950 · Movie
The Son of d'Artagnan
1950 · Movie
The Iron Swordsman
1949 · Movie
O Caçula do Barulho
1949 · Movie
The Mysterious Rider
1948 · Movie
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
1948 · Movie
Les Misérables
1948 · Movie
Guarany
1948 · Movie
L'astuto barone
1948 · Movie
Tenori per forza
1948 · Movie
Aquila Nera
1946 · Movie
Non canto più
1945 · Movie
Tutta la città canta
1945 · Movie
L'abito nero da sposa
1945 · Movie
Don Cesare of Bazan
1942 · Movie
Sundown
1941 · Movie
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941 · Movie
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
1941 · Movie
Cento lettere d'amore
1940 · Movie
In campagna è caduta una stella
1939 · Movie
The Little Adventurers
1939 · Movie
La voce senza volto
1939 · Movie
Voce senza volto
1939 · Movie
Fuochi d'artificio
1938 · Movie
Lasciate ogni speranza
1937 · Movie