Riccardo Freda
Directing · Born 1909-02-24 · age 90 at death · 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.
Titles
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Lust of the Vampire
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Double Face
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
The Ghost
Murder Obsession
Tragic Ceremony
The Witch's Curse
Sundown
For the Love of Nancy
Sign of the Gladiator
The Giants of Thessaly
Theodora, Slave Empress
Castle of the Banned Lovers
Aquila Nera
The White Warrior
The Mysterious Rider
The Mongols
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
Trap for the Assassin
Les Misérables
Death at Owell Rock
Sins of Rome
Alone Against Rome
The Exterminators
Mexican Slayride
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Once Around the Park
Double Cross
My Name Is Kate
Revenge of the Black Eagle
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Gold for the Caesars
Don Cesare of Bazan
The Iron Swordsman
Romeo e Giulietta
The Magnificent Adventurer
The Seventh Sword
Tutta la città canta
From Here to the Inheritance
Ambush in Tangier
The Revenge of the Crusader
Tamar Wife of Er
Lasciate ogni speranza
L'abito nero da sposa
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
Cento lettere d'amore
Manhunt
Non canto più
In campagna è caduta una stella
The Legend of Piave
O Caçula do Barulho
The Two Orphans
The Little Adventurers
The Son of d'Artagnan
Fuochi d'artificio
Vedi Napoli e poi muori
Guarany