Directing · geboren 1909-02-24 · Alexandria, Egypt

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.

Bekannt aus

• D'Artagnans Tochter (1994) – Original Story
• Der Vampir von Notre Dame (1957) – Il dottore (uncredited)
• Das schreckliche Geheimnis des Dr. Hichcock (1962) – Director
• Caltiki - Rätsel des Grauens (1959) – Director
• The Ghost (1963) – Director
• Das Gesicht im Dunkeln (1969) – Director
• Die Bestie mit dem feurigen Atem (1971) – Editor
• Murder Obsession (1981) – Director
• Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea (1972) – Director
• Waffenschmuggler von Kenya (1941) – Pilot (uncredited)
• Maciste, der Rächer der Verdammten (1962) – Director
• For the Love of Nancy (1994) – Set Decoration
• Das Schwert des roten Giganten (1960) – Director
• Im Zeichen Roms (1959) – Second Unit Director
• Ein zarter Hals für den Henker (1956) – Director
• Theodora, Kaiserin von Byzanz (1954) – Director
• Aquila Nera (1946) – Director
• Der geheimnisvolle Chevaliere (1948) – Director
• Hadschi Murat – Unter der Knute des Zaren (1959) – Director
• Maciste in der Gewalt des Tyrannen (1961) – Director
• Die Mongolen (1961) – Director
• Der Tod zählt keine Dollar (1967) – Director
• Roger la Honte (1966) – Director
• Die Elenden (1948) – Director
• Frank Collins 999 - Mit Chloroform geht's besser (1967) – Director
• L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941) – Editor
• Spartaco - Il gladiatore della Tracia (1953) – Screenplay
• Geheimauftrag CIA - Istanbul 777 (1965) – Director
• Einer gegen Rom (1962) – Second Unit Director
• Un tour de manège (1989) – Ricardo, le réalisateur
• La vendetta di Aquila Nera (1951) – Director
• Il tradimento (1951) – Director
• My Name Is Kate (1994) – Set Decoration
• I miserabili: Tempesta su Parigi (1948) – Director
• Das Gold der Cäsaren (1963) – Director
• Romeo und Julia (1964) – Director
• Don Cesare di Bazan (1942) – Director
• Mit Faust und Degen (1963) – Director
• Il conte Ugolino (1949) – Director
• Die 7 Schwerter der Rache (1962) – Director