Hugo Fregonese

Hugo Fregonese
Fregonese in the 1950s
Born	Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (1908-04-08)April 8, 1908 Mendoza, Argentina
Died	January 11, 1987(1987-01-11) (aged 78) Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter
Years active	1935–1975
Notable work	Savage Pampas My Six Convicts Decameron Nights Blowing Wild Black Tuesday Marco Polo The Secret of Dr. Mabuse
Spouse	Faith Domergue ​ ​ (m. 1947; div. 1958)​
Children	2

Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (8 April 1908 – 11 January 1987)^[1] was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.^[1]

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, like Man in the Attic (1953) and Black Tuesday (1954). He worked with renowned actors such as Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Edward G. Robinson, Luisa Vehil, Víctor Laplace, Soledad Silveyra, Paul Naschy, and Joel McCrea.^{[citation needed]}

For directing the now-almost forgotten film My Six Convicts (1952), Fregonese was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film.^{[citation needed]}