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Riccardo Freda (Alexandria, Egypt, February 24, 1909 – Rome, Italy, December 20, 1999) was an Italian film director. He was born to a Neapolitan family. He left studies in Milan in 1933 and entered the Experimental Center for Cinematography and he soon began work as a screenwriter for directors like Goffredo Alessandrini and Raffaello Matarazzo. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures, being inspired by the literary classics of Hugo and Pushkin. Unlike other directors of the period like Mario Bava and Antonio Margheriti, Freda had worked with high budgets and obtained egregious results. Freda's ''Sins of Rome'' (1953) was one of the first Italian peplums, predating Steve Reeves's ''Hercules'' by four years, and his classic ' (1961) was theatrically released one year before Ray Harryhausen's famous ''Jason and the Argonauts''. He directed Kirk Morris and Gordon Scott in two classic Maciste films in the sixties, in addition to directing several spy films, spaghetti westerns, historical dramas and World War II actioners. He never finished either of the two horror films he was assigned in the 1950s (''I Vampiri'' and ''Caltiki''), but rather allowed his cinematographer Mario Bava to complete them. Bava's great effects work on ''Caltiki'' in particular launched him on a directing career of his own in 1960. Thus many fans regard Freda as Mario Bava's mentor in the film industry. Freda's greatest horror films were his two 1960's titles, ''The Horrible Dr. Hichcock'' (1962) and ''The Ghost'' (1963), both of which starred Barbara Steele, but he really enjoyed doing the adventure films a lot more. He directed Anton Diffring and the legendary Klaus Kinski in giallos later in the decade, and then pretty much retired from filmmaking in 1972, emerging from his retirement in 1981 (at age 72) to direct one last slasher film, ''Murder Obsession'' (aka ''Fear''). He died in 1999 in Rome of natural causes (at age 90). == Filmography == * ''In the Country Fell a Star'' (1939, directed by Eduardo De Filippo) * ''The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (1941, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo) * ''Don Cesare di Bazan'' (1942) * ''The Whole City Sings'' (1945) (Italian:''Tutta la città canta'') * ' (1945) (Translation: ''I Can't Sing Any More'') * ''Black Eagle'' (1946) (Italian: ''Aquila nera'') * ''Les Misérables'' (1948) (as Robert Hampton – U.S. prints) * ''Il cavaliere misterioso'' (1948) (Translation: ''The Mysterious Rider'') * ''Guarany'' (1948) * ''O Caçula do Barulho'' (1949) * ' (1949) (Italian: ''Il conte Ugolino'') * ''Son of d'Artagnan'' (1950) (Italian: ''Il figlio di d'Artagnan'') * ' / ''Treason'' (1951) aka ''Double Cross'' * ''Vedi Napoli e poi muori'' (1951) (Translation: ''See Naples and Die'') * ''La vendetta di Aquila Nera'' (1951) (Translation: ''Revenge of Black Eagle'') * ''La leggenda del piave'' (1952) (Translation: ''The Legend of the Piave River'') * ''Spartaco'' / ''Spartacus'' (1953) aka ''Sins of Rome'' (as Robert Hampton) * ''Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio'' (1954) aka ''Theodora, Slave Empress'' * ' (1955) (Translation: ''From Here to the Inheritance'') * ' (1956) * ''I vampiri'' / ''The Vampires'' (1957) aka ''The Devil's Commandment'' (as Robert Hampton) co-dir. by Mario Bava * ' (1957) (Translation: ''Trapped to Tangiers'') as Robert Hampton * ''Nel Segno di Roma'' (1959, directed by Guido Brignone) (Translation: ''The Sign of Rome''); aka ''Sign of the Gladiator'' (uncredited) * ''Agi Murad il diavolo bianco'' / ''Agi Murad, the White Devil'' (1959) aka ''The White Warrior'' (as Robert Hampton – U.S. version) * ''Caltiki – The Immortal Monster'' (1959) ( Italian: ''Caltiki – il mostro immortale'') (as Robert Hamton) co-dir. by Mario Bava * ' (1960) aka ''The Giants of Thessaly'' * ' (1961, directed by André De Toth) aka ''The Mongols'' (uncredited) * ''Maciste at the Court of the Great Khan'' (1961) (Italian: ''Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan'') aka ''Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World'' * ' (1961) (Translation: ''Manhunt'') * ''Maciste in Hell'' (1962) (Italian: ''Maciste all'inferno'') aka ''The Witch's Curse'' (as Robert Hampton) * ''The Horrible Dr. Hichcock'' (1962) (Italian: ''L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock'' / ''The Horrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock'') aka ''Raptus'' (as Robert Hampton) * ''Le sette spade del vendicatore'' (1962) (Translation: ''The Seven Swords of the Avenger'') aka ''The Seventh Sword'' * ' (1963, directed by André De Toth) (Translation: ''Gold for the Caesars'') (uncredited) * ''The Ghost'' (1963) (Italian: ''Lo spettro'') (as Robert Hampton) * ' (1963) (Translation: ''The Magnificent Adventurer'') aka ''The Burning of Rome'' * ' (1964) (Translation: ''Juliet and Romeo'') * ''Les Deux orphelines'' (1965) (Translation: ''The Two Orphans'') * ' (1965) * ''Roger la Honte'' (1966) * ' / ''Coplan Opens Fire on Mexico'' (1967) aka ''Mexican Slayride'' (as Robert Hampton – Italian version) * ''La morte non conta i dollari'' (1967) (Translation: ''Death Doesn't Count the Dollars'') aka ''Death at Owell Rock'', aka ''No Killing Without Dollars'' (as George Lincoln) * ''Double Face'' (1969; Italian: ''A doppa faccia'') aka ''Liz and Helen'' (as Robert Hampton) * ''La salamandra del deserto'' (1970) (Translation: ''The Desert Salamander'') * ''L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco'' (1971) aka ''The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire'' (as Willy Pareto) * ''Tragic Ceremony'' (1972) (Italian: ''Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea'' / ''Taken From the Secret Police Archives of a European Capital'') aka ''Tragic Ceremony at Villa Alexander'' (as Robert Hampton) * ''Superhuman'' (1979) * ''Murder Obsession'' (1981) (Italian: ''Follia Omicida'') aka ''Murder Syndrome'', aka ''Fear'', aka ''The Wailing'' (as Robert Hampton) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riccardo Freda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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