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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.
As director
Murder Obsession
Tragic Ceremony
Tamar Wife of Er
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Double Face
Death at Owell Rock
Mexican Slayride
Trap for the Assassin
The Exterminators
The Two Orphans
Romeo e Giulietta
The Ghost
The Magnificent Adventurer
Gold for the Caesars
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
The Witch's Curse
The Seventh Sword
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
Manhunt
The Mongols
The Giants of Thessaly
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
The White Warrior
Lust of the Vampire
Ambush in Tangier
Castle of the Banned Lovers
From Here to the Inheritance
Theodora, Slave Empress
Mosaici a Ravenna, I
Sins of Rome
