Riccardo Freda

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Feb 24, 1909 (116 years old)
Death date
Dec 20, 1999

Riccardo Freda

Known For

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
1h 31m
Movie 2022

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento" focusing on the museum-part of the "Profondo Rosso" shop.

Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
0h 40m
Movie 2007

Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema

"I was the highest paid director in Italy'. Filming in Paris for Giuseppe Tornatore's ‘Four Talks with Freda’ (prod. Cristiano Bortone - Orisa Film)-

Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Movie 2000

Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co

Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda
0h 45m
Movie 1998

Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1h 45m
Movie 1997

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout his career.

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 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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