Listed in one movie encyclopedia as an "American-born director", Hugo Fregonese was actually a native of Argentina, and spent much of his professional life in that nation's film industry. A former journalist, Fregonese came to the U.S. to attend Columbia University in 1935, whereupon he was hired by Hollywood as a technical adviser for films with Latin American themes. He made his directorial debut in 1943, by which time he'd gone back to Argentina, where he remained until resuming his Hollywood career in 1949. Many of Fregonese's American directorial efforts were westerns (Apache Drums, The Raid) and crime melodramas (Black Tuesday, Man in the Attic); his best--and subtlest--film was the 1952 prison-reform seriocomedy My Six Convicts. In the early 1960s, Fregonese churned out a brace of German-filmed westerns based on the Karl May character "Old Shatterhand"; he returned to Argentina for his last film work, which included Savage Pampas (1966) and Mas Alla del Sol (1975). For several years, Hugo Fregonese was married to actress and Howard-Hughes protégé Faith Domergue.
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Mas Alla del Sol
Director, Screenwriter |
1975 | |||
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Assignment Terror
Director |
1970 | |||
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El Hombre quel Vine dela Ummo
Director |
1969 | |||
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Find a Place to Die
Producer |
1968 | |||
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Savage Pampas
Director, Screenwriter |
1967 | |||
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Dr. Mabuse's Rays of Death
Director |
1964 | |||
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Old Shatterhand
Director |
1963 | |||
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Marco Polo
Director |
1962 | |||
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Harry Black and the Tiger
Director |
1958 | |||
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I Girovaghi
Director |
1957 | |||
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The Beasts of Marseilles
Director |
1957 | |||
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Black Tuesday
Director |
1954 | |||
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The Raid
Director |
1954 | |||
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Blowing Wild
Director |
1953 | |||
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Decameron Nights
Director |
1953 | |||
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The Man in the Attic
Director |
1953 | |||
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My Six Convicts
Director |
1952 | |||
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Untamed Frontier
Director |
1952 | |||
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Apache Drums
Director |
1951 | |||
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Mark of the Renegade
Director |
1951 | |||
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One Way Street
Director |
1950 | |||
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Saddle Tramp
Director |
1950 | |||
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Apenas un delincuente
Director |
1949 | |||
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De Hombre a Hombre
Director |
1949 | |||
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Pampa Bárbara
Director |
1945 | |||
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Donde Mueren Las Palabras
Director |
1944 | |||
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La Guerra Gaucha
First Assistant Director |
1942 |
