Riccardo Freda
Born: 1909-02-24 in Alexandria, Egypt
Died: 1999-12-20
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2022
2000
1997
1994
- D'Artagnan's Daughter ... (Original Story)
- For the Love of Nancy ... (Set Decoration)
- My Name Is Kate ... (Set Decoration)
1989
- Once Around the Park as Ricardo, le réalisateur
1981
- Murder Obsession ... (Director)
1972
- Tragic Ceremony ... (Director)
1971
- The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire ... (Editor)
- Tamar Wife of Er ... (Director)
1969
- Double Face ... (Director)
1967
- Death at Owell Rock ... (Director)
- Mexican Slayride ... (Director)
1966
- Trap for the Assassin ... (Director)
1965
- The Exterminators ... (Director)
- The Two Orphans ... (Director)
1964
- Romeo e Giulietta ... (Director)
- The Revenge of the Crusader ... (Story)
1963
- The Magnificent Adventurer ... (Director)
- Gold for the Caesars ... (Director)
- The Ghost ... (Director)
1962
- The Seventh Sword ... (Director)
- The Witch's Curse ... (Director)
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock ... (Director)
- Alone Against Rome ... (Second Unit Director)
1961
- The Mongols ... (Director)
- Manhunt ... (Director)
- Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World ... (Director)
1960
- The Giants of Thessaly ... (Director)
1959
- Sign of the Gladiator ... (Second Unit Director)
- Caltiki, the Immortal Monster ... (Director)
- The White Warrior ... (Director)
1957
- Lust of the Vampire as Il dottore (uncredited)
- Ambush in Tangier ... (Director)
1956
- Castle of the Banned Lovers ... (Director)
1955
- From Here to the Inheritance ... (Director)
1954
- Theodora, Slave Empress ... (Director)
- Mosaici a Ravenna, I ... (Director)
1953
- Sins of Rome ... (Screenplay)
1952
- The Legend of Piave ... (Director)
1951
- Double Cross ... (Director)
- Vedi Napoli e poi muori ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Black Eagle ... (Director)
1950
- The Son of d'Artagnan ... (Director)
- Magia a prezzi modici ... (Writer)
1949
- O Caçula do Barulho ... (Director)
- The Iron Swordsman ... (Director)
1948
- Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris ... (Director)
- The Mysterious Rider ... (Director)
- Les Misérables ... (Director)
- Tenori per forza ... (Director)
- L'astuto barone ... (Director)
- Guarany ... (Director)
1946
- Aquila Nera ... (Director)
1945
- L'abito nero da sposa ... (Screenplay)
- Non canto più ... (Writer)
- Tutta la città canta ... (Story)
1942
- Don Cesare of Bazan ... (Director)
1941
- Sundown as Pilot (uncredited)
- The Adventuress from the Floor Above ... (Editor)
- Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Cento lettere d'amore ... (Story)
1939
- Voce senza volto ... (Writer)
- In campagna è caduta una stella ... (Screenplay)
- La voce senza volto ... (Screenplay)
- The Little Adventurers as Il maestro
1938
- Fuochi d'artificio ... (Screenplay)
1937
- Lasciate ogni speranza ... (Screenplay)