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Filmmaker · Italy

Riccardo Freda

Died in 1999

Riccardo Freda was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 24 February 1909. After studying in Milan, he was an art critic, then entered the cinema at the end of the 1930s as a screenwriter. He directed his first film in 1942 and worked mainly in adventure films, historical films and horror, genres he practised until the early 1980s. The Treccani regards him as the greatest Italian filmmaker of the adventure film. He died in Rome on 20 December 1999.

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