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.
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
(self)
The Little Adventurers
(Il maestro)
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
(Himself)
Sundown
(Pilot (uncredited))
Once Around the Park
(Ricardo, le réalisateur)
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
(Self)
Lust of the Vampire
(Il dottore (uncredited))
Les Misérables
(Director)
Lust of the Vampire
(Director)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
(Director)
For the Love of Nancy
(Set Decoration)
The Ghost
(Director)
The Ghost
(Writer)
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
(Director)
Tamar, Wife of Er
(Director)
Murder Obsession
(Director)
Murder Obsession
(Screenplay)
Tragic Ceremony
(Director)
The Witch's Curse
(Director)
Castle of the Banned Lovers
(Director)
Death at Owell Rock
(Director)
Romeo e Giulietta
(Director)
The Giants of Thessaly
(Director)
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
(Director)
Don Cesare of Bazan
(Director)
Double Face
(Director)
Double Face
(Screenplay)
Manhunt
(Director)
D'Artagnan's Daughter
(Original Story)
Non canto più
(Writer)
Aquila Nera
(Director)
The Mysterious Rider
(Director)
Mexican Slayride
(Director)
Fuochi d'artificio
(Screenplay)
Les Misérables
(Screenplay)
The White Warrior
(Director)
The White Warrior
(Editor)
Theodora, Slave Empress
(Director)
Lasciate ogni speranza
(Screenplay)
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
(Editor)
L'abito nero da sposa
(Screenplay)
In campagna è caduta una stella
(Screenplay)
Sins of Rome
(Screenplay)
The Magnificent Adventurer
(Director)
The Iron Swordsman
(Director)
Vedi Napoli e poi muori
(Director)
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
(Director)
The Little Adventurers
(Editor)
The Little Adventurers
(Screenplay)
The Seventh Sword
(Director)
In campagna è caduta una stella
(First Assistant Director)
Tutta la città canta
(Story)
Tutta la città canta
(Screenplay)
Ambush in Tangier
(Director)
Mosaici a Ravenna, I
(Director)
Magia a prezzi modici
(Writer)
Mosaici a Ravenna, I
(Writer)
Magia a prezzi modici
(Director)
The Exterminators
(Director)
La Leggenda del Piave
(Director)
The Mongols
(Director)
Don Cesare of Bazan
(Screenplay)
Don Cesare of Bazan
(Producer)
The Mysterious Rider
(Screenplay)
The Mysterious Rider
(Story)
Trap for the Assassin
(Director)
Murder Obsession
(Editor)
Sign of the Gladiator
(Second Unit Director)
Theodora, Slave Empress
(Story)
Theodora, Slave Empress
(Screenplay)
Theodora, Slave Empress
(Producer)
Romeo e Giulietta
(Screenplay)
The Mongols
(Second Unit Director)
Alone Against Rome
(Second Unit Director)
The Revenge of the Crusader
(Story)
The Revenge of the Crusader
(Producer)
The Revenge of the Crusader
(Screenplay)
Revenge of the Black Eagle
(Director)
Double Cross
(Director)
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
(Screenplay)
My Name Is Kate
(Set Decoration)
Sins of Rome
(Director)
The Son of d'Artagnan
(Director)
O Caçula do Barulho
(Director)
The Two Orphans
(Director)
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
(Screenplay)
Tenori per forza
(Director)
Tutta la città canta
(Director)
Da qui all'eredità
(Director)
Guarany
(Director)
L'astuto barone
(Director)
Death at Owell Rock
(Screenplay)
The Two Orphans
(Writer)
Gold for the Caesars
(Director)
Double Cross
(Screenplay)
Aquila Nera
(Screenplay)
O Caçula do Barulho
(Writer)
Lust of the Vampire
(Screenplay)
Non canto più
(Director)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
(Writer)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
(Editor)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
(Director)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
(Screenplay)
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
(Screenplay)
Castle of the Banned Lovers
(Editor)
The Giants of Thessaly
(Screenplay)
Voce senza volto
(Writer)
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
(Producer)
Cento lettere d'amore
(Story)
Cento lettere d'amore
(Writer)
Da qui all'eredità
(Story)
Da qui all'eredità
(Writer)