Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-17

Deathday

1964-05-23 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Also Known As

Fred L. Guiol
Fred M. Guiol
Frederick Lawrence Guiol

Fred Guiol

Biography

Fred Guiol was an American film director and screenwriter. Guiol worked at the Hal Roach Studios for many years, and directed Laurel and Hardy's earliest short films, as their famous comic partnership gradually developed during 1927. Along with Ivan Moffat, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the film Giant.

Known For

7.6%

Giant

Nov 8, 1956

7.6%

Giant

Nov 8, 1956

7.3%

A Place in the Sun

Jun 12, 1951

6.5%

Gunga Din

Jan 26, 1939

6.6%

Penny Serenade

Apr 24, 1941

7.3%

The Talk of the Town

Aug 20, 1942

6.8%

The More the Merrier

May 13, 1943

6.3%

The Second 100 Years

Oct 8, 1927

5.2%

45 Minutes from Hollywood

Dec 26, 1926

6.2%

Do Detectives Think?

Nov 20, 1927

6.3%

Duck Soup

Mar 13, 1927

6.0%

Sugar Daddies

Sep 10, 1927

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Camera

1919

Just Neighbors as Director of Photography

Directing

1956

Giant as Second Unit Director

1952		Mr. Walkie Talkie as Director
1952		Something to Live For as Other

1951		As You Were as Director
1951		A Place in the Sun as Other

1948

Here Comes Trouble as Director

1942

Hay Foot as Director

1941		Miss Polly as Director
1941		Tanks a Million as Director

1936		Mummy's Boys as Director
1936		Silly Billies as Director

1935		The Rainmakers as Director
1935		A Quiet Fourth as Director
1935		Raised and Called as Director
1935		Horse Heir as Director

1931

Disappearing Enemies as Director

1930		Breakfast in Bed as Director
1930		Hold the Baby as Director
1930		Traffic Tangle as Director
1930		Live and Learn as Director
1930		Rich Uncles as Director
1930		The Fighting Parson as Director
1930		The Head Guy as Director

1929

Skirt Shy as Director

1928		Feed 'em and Weep as Director
1928		The Boy Friend as Director
1928		The Fight Pest as Director
1928		Limousine Love as Director
1928		Aching Youth as Director
1928		The Family Group as Director
1928		Pass the Gravy as Director

1927		Do Detectives Think? as Director
1927		The Second 100 Years as Director
1927		Sugar Daddies as Director
1927		With Love and Hisses as Director
1927		Why Girls Love Sailors as Director
1927		Love 'Em and Weep as Director
1927		Slipping Wives as Director
1927		Duck Soup as Director
1927		Two-Time Mama as Director

1926		45 Minutes from Hollywood as Director
1926		Get 'Em Young as Director
1926		Along Came Auntie as Director
1926		Don Key (Son of Burro) as Director
1926		Say It with Babies as Director
1926		Long Pants as Director

1925		Flaming Flappers as Director
1925		Tell It to a Policeman as Director
1925		Sure-Mike! as Director
1925		The Haunted Honeymoon as Director
1925		Papa Be Good! as Director

1924		The Goofy Age as Director
1924		Meet the Missus as Director
1924		The Battling Orioles as Director
1924		Don't Park There as Director

1923		The Great Outdoors as Director
1923		Heavy Seas as Director

Production

1948

Here Comes Trouble as Producer

1943		Yanks Ahoy as Producer
1943		Prairie Chickens as Associate Producer
1943		The More the Merrier as Associate Producer
1943		Taxi, Mister as Associate Producer

1942		The McGuerins from Brooklyn as Associate Producer
1942		Fall In as Producer
1942		The Talk of the Town as Associate Producer
1942		About Face as Producer
1942		Dudes Are Pretty People as Associate Producer
1942		Hay Foot as Producer

1941		Niagara Falls as Producer
1941		Penny Serenade as Associate Producer

Writing

1956

Giant as Screenplay

1944

Abroad with Two Yanks as Writer

1940

Vigil in the Night as Screenplay

1939

Gunga Din as Screenplay

1936

Silly Billies as Story

1935		The Rainmakers as Story
1935		The Nitwits as Screenplay

1934		Kentucky Kernels as Screenplay
1934		Ocean Swells as Writer
1934		Rough Necking as Story

1933		Walking Back Home as Story
1933		What Fur as Story
1933		Flirting in the Park as Story
1933		The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble as Writer

1932

Boys Will Be Boys as Writer

1930

Rich Uncles as Writer

1927

Love 'Em and Weep as Writer