Riccardo Freda
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.
48 directing credits · 9 acting credits
Directing · 48
Death at Owell Rock
1967
The White Warrior
1959
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971
The Mongols
1961
Romeo e Giulietta
1964
Tragic Ceremony
1972
The Magnificent Adventurer
1963
Murder Obsession
1981
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
1959
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961
Gold for the Caesars
1963
The Mysterious Rider
1948
Double Face
1969
Aquila Nera
1946
Les Misérables
1948
Non canto più
1945
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962
Lust of the Vampire
1957
The Two Orphans
1965
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
1948
The Seventh Sword
1962
Manhunt
1961
Trap for the Assassin
1966
The Ghost
1963
The Witch's Curse
1962
Revenge of the Black Eagle
1951
Double Cross
1951
Theodora, Slave Empress
1954
The Giants of Thessaly
1960
The Exterminators
1965
Mexican Slayride
1967
Castle of the Banned Lovers
1956
O Caçula do Barulho
1949
Don Cesare of Bazan
1942
Sins of Rome
1953
Guarany
1948
Tamar Wife of Er
1971
The Son of d'Artagnan
1950
Ambush in Tangier
1957
From Here to the Inheritance
1955
Tutta la città canta
1945
The Legend of Piave
1952
The Iron Swordsman
1949
Tenori per forza
1948
Vedi Napoli e poi muori
1951
Mosaici a Ravenna, I
1954
Magia a prezzi modici
1950
L'astuto barone
1948
Acting · 9
Sundown
1941
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000
Lust of the Vampire
1957
Once Around the Park
1989
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
The Little Adventurers
1939
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
1998
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007