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Riccardo Freda
Alexandria, Egypt
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. Fre…
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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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2022
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Movie self
- 2007
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2000
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Movie Self
- 1998
- 1997
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1994
For the Love of Nancy
Movie Set Decoration
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1994
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Movie Original Story
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1994
My Name Is Kate
Movie Set Decoration
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1989
Once Around the Park
Movie Ricardo, le réalisateur
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1981
Murder Obsession
Movie Director
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1972
Tragic Ceremony
Movie Director
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1971
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Movie Director
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1971
Tamar Wife of Er
Movie Director
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1969
Double Face
Movie Director
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1967
Mexican Slayride
Movie Director
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1967
Death at Owell Rock
Movie Director
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1966
Trap for the Assassin
Movie Director
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1965
The Exterminators
Movie Director
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1965
The Two Orphans
Movie Director
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1964
The Revenge of the Crusader
Movie Producer
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1964
Romeo e Giulietta
Movie Director
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1963
The Magnificent Adventurer
Movie Director
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1963
The Ghost
Movie Director
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1963
Gold for the Caesars
Movie Director
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1962
The Seventh Sword
Movie Director
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1962
Alone Against Rome
Movie Second Unit Director
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1962
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Movie Director
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1962
The Witch's Curse
Movie Director
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1961
Manhunt
Movie Director
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1961
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
Movie Director
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1961
The Mongols
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1960
The Giants of Thessaly
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1959
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
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1959
The White Warrior
Movie Director
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1959
Sign of the Gladiator
Movie Second Unit Director
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1957
Lust of the Vampire
Movie Il dottore (uncredited)
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1957
Ambush in Tangier
Movie Director
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1956
Castle of the Banned Lovers
Movie Director
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1955
From Here to the Inheritance
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1954
Theodora, Slave Empress
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