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Ian Hugo

Born February 15, 1898 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Died January 7, 1985 · aged 86

Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University, where he studied economics and literature. Hugo was working with the National City Bank when h…