Riccardo Freda

The film became the first Italian sound horror film production.

• Name — Riccardo Freda • Born — 24 February 1909 • Birthplace — Alexandria, Egypt • Died — 20 December 1999 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Spouse — Gianna Maria Canale

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) A wave of Italian horror productions did not follow until Mario Bava's film Black Sunday was released internationally. Freda died on 20 December 1999 in Rome.

• Title — Year — Credited as — Notes — Ref(s) Reference(s) • Director — Writer — Editor — Other • Lasciate ogni speranza — 1937 • L'allegro cantante — 1938 • Fuochi d'artificio • 1939 • Piccoli naufraghi — Assistant director • Il cavaliere di San Marco • In the Country Fell a Star — Collaborator to direction • Fascino — 1940 • Il barone di Corbò • La granduchessa si diverte • Cento lettere d'amore • Lucky Night — 1941 • Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto — Collaboration to the making • L'avventuriera del piano di sopra • Don Cesare di Bazan — 1942 — Producer • L'abito nero da sposa — 1945 • Non canto più • Tutta la città canta — Story • 07... Tassì • 1946 — Story • 1948 • Story • O caçula do barulho — 1949 — Story • Guarany — 1950 — Story • Story • L'astuto barone — Short film • Magia a prezzi modici — 1951 — Short film • Double Cross • Tenori per forza — Short film • Revenge of Black Eagle — Story • See Naples and Die — 1952 • La Leggenda del Piave • Sins of Rome — 1953 • Theodora, Slave Empress — 1954 — Story, general manager • I mosaici di Ravenna • Da qui all'eredità — 1955 • Beatrice Cenci — 1956 — Story • I Vampiri — 1957 — Actor (Autopsy doctor) • Trapped in Tangiers — Story • Sheba and the Gladiator — 1959 — 2nd unit director–battle scenes • Caltiki – The Immortal Monster • 1960 • 1961 — Director–battle scenes • Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World • Caccia all'uomo • Marco Polo — 1962 — Director–battle scenes • Alone Against Rome — Director–Arena sequences • Seven Seas to Calais — Editor–naval battle scene • Story • Gold for the Caesars — 1963 — 2nd unit director • Story • Romeo e Giulietta — 1964 • Genoveffa di Brabante — Story • The Two Orphans — 1965 • Coplan FX 18 casse tout • Trap for the Assassin — 1966 • Mexican Slayride — 1967 • La morte non conta i dollari • Double Face — 1969 • Tamar Wife of Er — 1970 • 1971 — Story • Tragic Ceremony — 1972 • Murder Obsession — 1981 • Un tour de manège — 1989 — Actor (Riccardo the film director) • Revenge of the Musketeers — 1994 — Based on "an idea by Freda and Éric Poindron

Riccardo Freda is recorded with the occupation film director. Classed in the genre sword-and-sandal film. Recorded as film director, screenwriter, film editor and director.