Fred Guiol

Born: 1898-02-17 in San Francisco, California, USA

Died: 1964-05-23

Known For: Directing

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.

Filmography

1956

Giant ... (Screenplay)

1943

The More the Merrier ... (Associate Producer)
Prairie Chickens ... (Associate Producer)
Yanks Ahoy ... (Producer)
Taxi, Mister ... (Associate Producer)

1942

The Talk of the Town ... (Associate Producer)
About Face ... (Producer)
Dudes Are Pretty People ... (Associate Producer)
Hay Foot ... (Director)
The McGuerins from Brooklyn ... (Associate Producer)
Fall In ... (Producer)

1941

Penny Serenade ... (Associate Producer)
Miss Polly ... (Director)
Niagara Falls ... (Producer)
Tanks a Million ... (Director)

1940

Vigil in the Night ... (Screenplay)

1939

Gunga Din ... (Screenplay)

1936

Mummy's Boys ... (Director)
Silly Billies ... (Story)

1935

Horse Heir ... (Director)
The Rainmakers ... (Director)
A Quiet Fourth ... (Director)
The Nitwits ... (Screenplay)
Raised and Called ... (Director)

1934

Ocean Swells ... (Writer)
What's Your Racket ... (Director)
Kentucky Kernels ... (Screenplay)
Rough Necking ... (Story)

1933

What Fur ... (Story)
Flirting in the Park ... (Story)
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble ... (Writer)
Walking Back Home ... (Story)

1932

Boys Will Be Boys ... (Writer)

1931

Disappearing Enemies ... (Director)

1930

The Head Guy ... (Director)
The Fighting Parson ... (Director)
Breakfast in Bed ... (Director)
Live and Learn ... (Director)
Traffic Tangle ... (Director)
Hold the Baby ... (Director)
Rich Uncles ... (Writer)

1929

Skirt Shy ... (Director)

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

Sure-Mike! ... (Director)
Tell It to a Policeman ... (Director)
Papa Be Good! ... (Director)
Flaming Flappers ... (Director)
The Haunted Honeymoon ... (Director)

1924

Don't Park There ... (Director)
The Goofy Age ... (Director)
The Battling Orioles ... (Director)
Meet the Missus ... (Director)

1923

Heavy Seas ... (Director)
The Great Outdoors ... (Director)

1919

Just Neighbors ... (Director of Photography)