Riccardo Freda

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore, Montatore, Produttore

24 febbraio 1909 — 20 dicembre 1999 (90 anni)
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.

Film e Serie su Plex

  • Lo spettro
    Lo spettro1963
  • Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea
    Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea1972
  • I giganti della Tessaglia
    I giganti della Tessaglia1960

Famoso per

  • I vampiri
    I vampiri1957
  • L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco
    L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco1971
  • Murder Obsession
    Murder Obsession1981
  • Eloise, la figlia di d'Artagnan
    Eloise, la figlia di d'Artagnan1994
  • Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea
    Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea1972
  • Maciste all'Inferno
    Maciste all'Inferno1962
  • I giganti della Tessaglia
    I giganti della Tessaglia1960
  • Agi Murad, il diavolo bianco
    Agi Murad, il diavolo bianco1959
  • Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan
    Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan1961
  • Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio
    Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio1954
  • La morte non conta i dollari
    La morte non conta i dollari1967
  • Nel segno di Roma
    Nel segno di Roma1959
  • Il cavaliere misterioso
    Il cavaliere misterioso1948
  • Spartaco - Il gladiatore della Tracia
    Spartaco - Il gladiatore della Tracia1953
  • Beatrice Cenci
    Beatrice Cenci1956
  • I mongoli
    I mongoli1961
  • Trappola per l'assassino
    Trappola per l'assassino1966
  • Il magnifico avventuriero
    Il magnifico avventuriero1963
  • Agente 777 missione Summergame
    Agente 777 missione Summergame1965
  • Moresque: obiettivo allucinante
    Moresque: obiettivo allucinante1967

Filmografia

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 GhostSu Plex
1960
The Giants of Thessaly · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1959
1957
Agguato a Tangeri · as Screenplay
1957
Lust of the Vampire · as Screenplay
1954
Theodora, Slave Empress · 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
1951
Revenge of Black Eagle · as Written By
1948