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Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda

Known For Directing
Birthday Feb 24, 1909
Died Dec 20, 1999 (90)
Birthplace Alexandria, Egypt
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 13, 2025
Entry Date Aug 13, 2025
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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.

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Sundown

Sundown

1941

as Pilot (uncredited)

For the Love of Nancy

For the Love of Nancy

1994

Set Decoration

My Name Is Kate

My Name Is Kate

1994

Set Decoration

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