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Riccardo Freda
Italian film director
Riccardo Freda | |
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Riccardo Freda on the set of I Vampiri | |
| Born | (1909-02-24)24 February 1909 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Died | 20 December 1999(1999-12-20) (aged 90) Rome, Italy |
| Spouse | Gianna Maria Canale |
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.[2]
Freda began directing I Vampiri in 1956.[4] The film became the first Italian sound horror film production.
Biography
Riccardo Freda was born in 1909 in Alexandria, Egypt to Italian parents.[2] Freda attended school in Milan where he took art classes at the Centro Sperimantale.[2] After school he took on work as a sculptor and art critic.[2]
Film career
Freda first began working in the film industry in 1937 and directed his first film Don Cesare di Bazan in 1942.[2] Fre