Hugo Mac Dougall, born Hugo Mascías (9 December 1901 – 15 May 1976 in

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) was an Argentine writer, screenwriter, and journalist. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Mac Dougall won the

Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay The Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay ( es, Premio Cóndor de Plata al mejor guion original de ficción), given by the Argentine Film Critics Association The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinemat ...

for his work '' Malambo'' (1942). He won it again the following year for his script co-written with Rodolfo González Pacheco and

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for ''

Three Men of the River ''Three Men of the River'' ( es, Tres hombres del río) is a 1943 Argentine crime drama film directed by Mario Soffici and starring Elisa Galvé and José Olarra. The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and ...

'' (''Tres hombres del río'')(1943).

Biography

His maternal grandfather was Hugh Mac Dougall, a Scottish man who emigrated to

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. He settled in the province of Entre Ríos, where he owned several ''

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s''. One of his daughters was Margarita Mac Dougall. She married José María Mascías, a

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immigrant born in

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on April 17, 1864 and from this marriage was born Hugo Mascías Mac Dougall.''Mac Dougall - Familia de escoceses en Gualeguay - Siglo XIX'' por Analía Montorfano
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Filmography

* '' Interpol llamando a Río'' (1962) * ''

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'' (1961) * '' Caballito criollo'' (1953) * '' El tambor de Tacuarí'' (1948) * ''

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'' (1948) * '' Viaje sin regreso'' (1946) * ''

Lauracha ''Lauracha'' is a 1946 Argentine drama film directed by Arturo García Buhr, Ernesto Arancibia, Antonio Ber Ciani and Enrique Cahen Salaberry and starring Amelia Bence and García Buhr. The film was adapted for the screen by Hugo Mac Douga ...

'' (1946) from the novel of the same name by Otto Miguel Cione * ''

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'' (1946) * ''

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'' (1945) * ''

El fin de la noche ( en, End of the Night) is a 1944 Argentine film. It is notable for being an anti-Nazi film made in neutral Argentina during World War II and set in occupied France. Shot from August to November 1943 in Cordoba Province, the release was put on ...

'' (1944) * '' Tres hombres del río'' (1943) * '' Malambo'' (1942) * '' Ceniza al viento'' (1942) * '' The Gaucho Priest'' (1941) * '' Confesión'' (1940) * '' Huella'' (1940) * '' Nobleza gaucha'' (1937) * ''

Santos Vega Santos Vega was a mythical Argentine gaucho, and invincible ''payador'' (a kind of minstrel that competed in singing competitions resembling dialectic discussions), who was only defeated by the Devil himself , disguised as the ''payador'' ''Jua ...

'' (1936)

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* Male screenwriters Argentine people of Catalan descent Argentine people of Scottish descent Writers from Buenos Aires 1901 births 1976 deaths Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay winners 20th-century Argentine screenwriters 20th-century Argentine male writers {{screenwriter-stub