Hugo Fregonese

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Hugo Fregonese (April 8, 1908 Mendoza – January 11, 1987) was an Argentine film director who worked both in Hollywood and in Argentina.

A former sports journalist, he attended Columbia University in 1935 then was hired to be a technical advisor for films with Latin American themes. By 1938, he was again living in Argentina. There he worked as an editor, assistant director and short film director. He made his directorial debut in 1943. Most of Fregonese's American films were westerns and crime melodramas (Black Tuesday, Man in the Attic). He also directed the India based movie Harry Black. He had two children by his first wife, Faith Domergue.

In 1949 he directed Apenas un delincuente.