Riccardo Freda
Known for DirectingBorn 1909-02-24 — died 1999-12-20Alexandria, 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.
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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
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000 · as Self
Once Around the Park
1989 · as Ricardo, le réalisateur
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007
Lust of the Vampire
1957 · as Il dottore (uncredited)
Sundown
1941 · as Pilot (uncredited)
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022 · as self
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997 · as Self
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
1998
The Little Adventurers
1939 · as Il maestro