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Fred Guiol

Directing

Born February 17, 1898 · San Francisco, California, USA

Died May 23, 1964

Also known as Fred L. Guiol · Fred M. Guiol · Frederick Lawrence Guiol

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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.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1957 · nominated

Filmography14 titles

Giant

1956Screenplay, Second Unit Director

A Place in the Sun

1951Other

The Talk of the Town

1942Associate Producer

The More the Merrier

1943Associate Producer

The Rainmakers

1935Director, Story

Something to Live For

1952Other

Niagara Falls

1941Producer

Penny Serenade

1941Associate Producer

Gunga Din

1939Screenplay

Just Neighbors

1919Director of Photography

Kentucky Kernels

1934Screenplay

Hay Foot

1942Director, Producer

Tanks a Million

1941Director

Miss Polly

1941Director