Riccardo Freda

Director, Escritor, Actor, Editor, Productor

24 de febrero de 1909 — 20 de diciembre de 1999 (90 años)
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.

Películas y series en Plex

  • The Ghost
    The Ghost1963
  • Trágica ceremonia en villa Alexander
    Trágica ceremonia en villa Alexander1972
  • Los gigantes de la Tessaglia
    Los gigantes de la Tessaglia1960

Conocido por

  • Los vampiros
    Los vampiros1957
  • La hija de D'Artagnan
    La hija de D'Artagnan1994
  • La iguana de la lengua de fuego
    La iguana de la lengua de fuego1971
  • Locura homicida
    Locura homicida1981
  • Trágica ceremonia en villa Alexander
    Trágica ceremonia en villa Alexander1972
  • Maciste en el infierno
    Maciste en el infierno1962
  • Los gigantes de la Tessaglia
    Los gigantes de la Tessaglia1960
  • El diablo blanco
    El diablo blanco1959
  • Maciste: En la corte del Gran Khan
    Maciste: En la corte del Gran Khan1961
  • Teodora, emperatriz de Bizancio
    Teodora, emperatriz de Bizancio1954
  • La muerte no cuenta los dólares
    La muerte no cuenta los dólares1967
  • Caballero misterioso
    Caballero misterioso1948
  • Spartaco
    Spartaco1953
  • Castle of the Banned Lovers
    Castle of the Banned Lovers1956
  • Bajo el signo de Roma
    Bajo el signo de Roma1959
  • Los Mongoles
    Los Mongoles1961
  • Trap for the Assassin
    Trap for the Assassin1966
  • El magnífico aventurero
    El magnífico aventurero1963
  • Objetivo: matar
    Objetivo: matar1965
  • Entre las redes
    Entre las redes1967

Filmography

1981
Murder Syndrome · as Screenplay
1971
1969
Double Face · as Screenplay
1967
Death at Owell Rock · as Screenplay
1965
1964
Romeo and Juliet · as Screenplay
1963
The GhostEn Plex
1960
The Giants of Thessaly · as ScreenplayEn Plex
1959
1957
Agguato a Tangeri · as Screenplay
1957
Lust of the Vampire · as Screenplay
1953
Spartaco · as Screenplay
1951
Double Cross · as Screenplay
1950
Il figlio di d'Artagnan · as Screenplay
1948
Tempesta su Parigi · as Screenplay
1948
Les Misérables · as Screenplay
1946
Return of the Black Eagle · as Screenplay
1942
Don Cesare di Bazan · as Screenplay
1941

1989
Once Around the Park · as Ricardo, Le Réalisateur
1957
Lust of the Vampire · as Il Dottore (uncredited)
1941
Sundown · as Pilot (uncredited)

1995
A Family Divided · as Set Decorator
1994
For the Love of Nancy · as Set Decoration
1994
Revenge of the Musketeers · as Original Story
1994
My Name Is Kate · as Set Decoration
1962
Alone Against Rome · as Second Unit Director
1959
Sign of the Gladiator · as Second Unit Director
1956
1954
Theodora, Slave Empress · as Art Director
1954
1951
Revenge of Black Eagle · as Written By
1948