Hugo Fregonese (April 8, 1908, Mendoza, Argentina — January 17, 1987, Buenos Aires, Argentina) 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. In 1949, he directed Apenas un delincuente. Most of Fregonese's American films were westerns and crime melodramas, for example Man in the Attic (1953) and Black Tuesday (1954).
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