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Riccardo Freda

Director, Writer, Actor, Editor, Producer, Additional Credits
Born February 24, 1909Died December 20, 1999 (90 years)
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.

Known For

  • The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
  • Lust of the Vampire
  • Revenge of the Musketeers
  • Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
  • The Ghost
  • Double Face
  • The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
  • Murder Syndrome
  • Tragic Ceremony
  • The Witch's Curse
  • The Giants of Thessaly
  • The White Warrior
  • Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
  • Theodora, Slave Empress
  • Death at Owell Rock
  • Les Misérables
  • Sign of the Gladiator
  • The Mysterious Rider
  • Spartaco
  • Castle of the Banned Lovers
  • The Mongols
  • Trap for the Assassin
  • The Burning of Rome
  • Coplan FX 18 casse tout

Filmography

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