Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
February 17, 1898
Died
May 23, 1964 (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
Directing
Giant
Screenplay, Second Unit Director
1956
A Place in the Sun
Other
1951
The More the Merrier
Associate Producer
1943
The Talk of the Town
Associate Producer
1942
Penny Serenade
Associate Producer
1941
Vigil in the Night
Screenplay
1940
Gunga Din
Screenplay
1939
Pass the Gravy
Director
1928
Do Detectives Think?
Director
1927
The Second 100 Years
Director
1927
Sugar Daddies
Director
1927
With Love and Hisses
Director
1927