Eduardo Ugarte y Pagés (22 October 1900 – 30 December 1955) was a Spanish writer, film director and screenwriter.

In 1919, after the Russian Revolution, he traveled to Russia in order to volunteer for the Red Army, but was detained by the German police and sent back to Spain.

[2] Ugarte was close to the writers of the Generation of '27 and began his literary career by composing several plays in collaboration with José López Rubio.

[3] He returned to Spain less than a year later and founded, together with Federico García Lorca, the Spanish University Theatre La Barraca.

He was then appointed cultural attaché at the Spanish embassy in Paris where he conducted pro-Republican propaganda and prepared the evaluation of Republican fighters.