Hugo Fregonese (April 8, 1908, Mendoza — January 17, 1987, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film director who worked both in Hollywood and Argentina.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 such Hollywood actors as, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Edward G. Robinson, and Joel McCrea, among others.