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Riccardo Freda

Italian film director

Summary

Italian film director

Field	Value
name	Riccardo Freda
image	Riccardo_Freda_1958.png
caption	Riccardo Freda on the set of I Vampiri
birth_date
birth_place	Alexandria, Egypt
death_date
death_place	Rome, Italy
spouse	Gianna Maria Canale

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.{{Cite AV media notes

Biography

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.

Film career

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.

Filmography

Title	Ref(s)	Director
1937
1938
1939
	Assistant director
	Collaborator to direction
1940
1941
	Collaboration to the making
1942		Producer
1945
	Story
1946		Story
1948
	Story
1949		Story
1950		Story
	Story
	Short film
1951		Short film
	Short film
	Story
1952
1953
1954		Story, general manager
1955
1956		Story
1957		Actor (Autopsy doctor)
	Story
1959		2nd unit director–battle scenes
1960
1961		Director–battle scenes
1962		Director–battle scenes
	Director–Arena sequences
	Editor–naval battle scene
	Story
1963		2nd unit director
	Story
1964
	Story
1965
1966
1967
1969
1970
1971		Story
1972
1981
1989		Actor (Riccardo the film director)
1994		Based on "an idea by Freda and Éric Poindron

Notes

a Freda has denied having taken part in writing the script for this film, despite being credited.
b Freda was originally to direct the film but stated that he walked off the set on the first day of shooting.
c Freda name is not in the credits but some sources state he directed several battles scenes in the film, which Freda denies.
d Freda name is not in the credits but some sources state he edited the naval battle scenes in the film, which Freda denies.
e Freda has claimed to have shot the entire film.

References

Bibliography

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References

Erickson, Hal. "Riccardo Freda". [[AllMovie]].
Gallant, Chris. (23 April 2015). "10 Great Italian Gothic Horror Films". British Film Institute.

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