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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. Writer: Caccia all'uomo. Riccardo Freda was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Italian parents. Educated in Milan, he became a sculptor, then a newspaper art critic. He began a career in film in 1937 as a screenwriter and production supervisor. He moved into directing in 1942, beginning a career that lasted some 40 years.
Riccardo Freda est un des maîtres du cinéma populaire italien, avec Carmine Gallone, Alessandro Blasetti et une poignée d'autres, reconnu comme un authentique auteur par la critique la plus exigeante. Il réalise pendant trois décennies, parfois sous le pseudonyme de Robert Hampton, aventures historiques, mélodrames, action et horreur.
Ricardo Freda, born to Neapolitan parents in Egypt 1909, died in Paris 1999, was a famous Italian film director, best known for horror and thriller movies I Vampiri (1957). He attended school in Milan and also took classes at the Centro Sperimantale.
Jul 3, 2017 · Master of Italian Gothic – Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker by Roberto Curti
Dec 20, 1999 · Riccardo Freda is known as an Director, Screenplay, Actor, Writer, Editor, Story, Second Unit Director, Producer, Set Decoration, Original Story, and First Assistant Director.
Nov 14, 2017 · Scholars tend to agree on Riccardo Freda’s I vampiri (1957) being the first Italian horror film. Indeed, prior to Freda’s Paris-set Gothic potboiler, which mixes the Erzsébet...
