Riccardo Freda
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-02-24 (90 years old)
Deathday
1999-12-20
Place of Birth
Alexandria, Egypt
Also known As
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Riccardo Freda
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 Bazan in 1942. Freda began directing I Vampiri. I Vam...
Acting
2022
1939
as Il maestro
1997
1941
as Pilot (uncredited)
1989
as Ricardo, le réalisateur
2000
1957
as Il dottore (uncredited)
Production
1948
as Director
1957
as Director
1959
as Director
1994
as Set Decoration
1963
as Director
1963
as Writer
1962
as Director
1971
as Director
1981
as Director
1981
as Screenplay
1972
as Director
1962
as Director
1956
as Director
1967
as Director
1964
as Director
1960
as Director
1961
as Director
1942
as Director
1969
as Director
1969
as Screenplay
1961
as Director
1994
as Original Story
1945
as Writer
1946
as Director
1948
as Director
1967
as Director
1938
as Screenplay
1948
as Screenplay
1959
as Director
1959
as Editor
1954
as Director
1937
as Screenplay
1941
as Editor
1945
as Screenplay
1939
as Screenplay
1953
as Screenplay
1963
as Director
1949
as Director
1951
as Director
1948
as Director
1939
as Editor
1939
as Screenplay
1962
as Director
1939
as First Assistant Director
1945
as Story
1945
as Screenplay
1957
as Director
1954
as Director
1950
as Writer
1954
as Writer
1950
as Director
1965
as Director
1952
as Director
1961
as Director
1942
as Screenplay
1942
as Producer
1948
as Screenplay
1948
as Story
1966
as Director
1981
as Editor
1959
as Second Unit Director
1954
as Story
1954
as Screenplay
1954
as Producer
1964
as Screenplay
1961
as Second Unit Director
1962
as Second Unit Director
1964
as Story
1964
as Producer
1964
as Screenplay
1951
as Director
1951
as Director
1941
as Screenplay
1994
as Set Decoration
1953
as Director
1950
as Director
1949
as Director
1965
as Director
1948
as Screenplay
1948
as Director
1945
as Director
1955
as Director
1948
as Director
1948
as Director
1967
as Screenplay
1965
as Writer
1963
as Director
1951
as Screenplay
1946
as Screenplay
1949
as Writer
1957
as Screenplay
1945
as Director
1959
as Writer
1971
as Editor
1971
as Director
1971
as Screenplay
1941
as Screenplay
1956
as Editor
1960
as Screenplay
1939
as Writer
1941
as Producer
1940
as Story
1940
as Writer
1955
as Story
1955
as Writer
1971
as Writer
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