Directed credits
43
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Riccardo Freda
Directing
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0.6
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Directed movies: 43Directed series: 0All crew 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
Frequent jobs
Director (41)Second Unit Director (2)Screenplay (6)Editor (2)Set Decoration (2)Writer (2)Original Story (1)Producer (1)Story (1)
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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Directed Movies
Movies directed by Riccardo Freda.
4.9
Murder Obsession
Director
1981 Movie
4.8
Tragic Ceremony
Director
1972 Movie
5.2
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Director
1971 Movie
1.0
Tamar Wife of Er
Director
1971 Movie
5.8
Double Face
Director
1969 Movie
1.8
Mexican Slayride
Director
1967 Movie
5.3
Death at Owell Rock
Director
1967 Movie
5.4
Trap for the Assassin
Director
1966 Movie
3.8
The Exterminators
Director
1965 Movie
The Two Orphans
Director
1965 Movie
6.5
Romeo e Giulietta
Director
1964 Movie
6.0
The Magnificent Adventurer
Director
1963 Movie
6.1
The Ghost
Director
1963 Movie
4.2
Gold for the Caesars
Director
1963 Movie
5.5
The Seventh Sword
Director
1962 Movie
4.7
Alone Against Rome
Second Unit Director
1962 Movie
5.8
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Director
1962 Movie
4.6
The Witch's Curse
Director
1962 Movie
Manhunt
Director
1961 Movie
5.8
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
Director
1961 Movie
4.8
The Mongols
Director
1961 Movie
4.7
The Giants of Thessaly
Director
1960 Movie
5.8
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Director
1959 Movie
5.1
The White Warrior
Director
1959 Movie
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5.6
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Original Story
1994 Movie
4.2
Sign of the Gladiator
Second Unit Director
1959 Movie
4.6
The Witch's Curse
Director
1962 Movie
5.8
Double Face
Director
1969 Movie
6.6
Double Cross
Director
1951 Movie
5.2
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Director
1971 Movie
5.8
Sins of Rome
Screenplay
1953 Movie
4.8
The Mongols
Director
1961 Movie
6.1
The Ghost
Director
1963 Movie
4.9
Murder Obsession
Director
1981 Movie
6.3
Lust of the Vampire
Director
1957 Movie
5.8
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Director
1959 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Riccardo Freda.
6.9
For the Love of Nancy
Set Decoration
1994 Movie
5.6
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Original Story
1994 Movie
6.0
My Name Is Kate
Set Decoration
1994 Movie
4.0
The Revenge of the Crusader
Producer
1964 Movie
5.8
Sins of Rome
Screenplay
1953 Movie
Non canto più
Writer
1945 Movie
7.0
Tutta la città canta
Story
1945 Movie
L'abito nero da sposa
Screenplay
1945 Movie
6.8
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Editor
1941 Movie
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
Screenplay
1941 Movie
In campagna è caduta una stella
Screenplay
1939 Movie
The Little Adventurers
Editor
1939 Movie
Voce senza volto
Writer
1939 Movie
La voce senza volto
Screenplay
1939 Movie
Fuochi d'artificio
Screenplay
1938 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Riccardo Freda.
3.0
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
as self
2022 Movie
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
as Self
2000 Movie
6.0
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
as Himself
1997 Movie
3.0
Once Around the Park
as Ricardo, le réalisateur
1989 Movie
6.3
Lust of the Vampire
as Il dottore (uncredited)
1957 Movie
5.4
Sundown
as Pilot (uncredited)
1941 Movie
The Little Adventurers
as Il maestro
1939 Movie