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Riccardo Freda
Directing
Biography
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 Baz…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
as self
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
as Self
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
as Self
Once Around the Park
as Ricardo, le réalisateur
Lust of the Vampire
as Il dottore (uncredited)
Sundown
as Pilot (uncredited)
The Little Adventurers
as Il maestro