Actor

Riccardo Freda

Directing

Career Snapshot

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Acting credits

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TMDB popularity

0.6

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Movies: 63Series: 0Crew credits: 58

TMDB ID: 37197

IMDb ID: nm0292720

Known for: Directing

Born: February 24, 1909

Died: December 20, 1999

Age: 90

Place of birth: Alexandria, Egypt

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1938 - 2022

Years active: 85

Average TMDB rating: 5.6

Wikidata: Q750983

Also known as

Robert Hampton

Other jobs

Director (41)Screenplay (6)Editor (2)Second Unit Director (2)Set Decoration (2)Writer (2)Original Story (1)Producer (1)

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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.