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Fred Guiol

Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Additional Credits
Born February 17, 1898Died May 23, 1964 (66 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Penny Serenade
  • Tanks a Million
  • Niagara Falls
  • Here Comes Trouble
  • Miss Polly
  • Hay Foot
  • The McGuerins from Brooklyn
  • Yanks Ahoy
  • Fall In
  • Prairie Chickens

Known For

  • Giant
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Penny Serenade
  • The Talk of the Town
  • The More the Merrier
  • Do Detectives Think?
  • Duck Soup
  • Vigil in the Night
  • The Second 100 Years
  • Slipping Wives
  • 45 Minutes from Hollywood
  • The Nitwits
  • Their Purple Moment
  • Tanks a Million
  • Mummy's Boys
  • Here Comes Trouble
  • Miss Polly
  • Something to Live For
  • A Sailor-Made Man
  • Hay Foot
  • The Rainmakers
  • Niagara Falls
  • Kentucky Kernels

Fred Guiol Filmography

1956
Giant · as Screenplay
1944
1940
Vigil in the Night · as Screenplay
1939
Gunga Din · as Screenplay
1935
The Nitwits · as Screenplay
1934
Kentucky Kernels · as Screenplay
1927

1949
1948
1943
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
1942
The Talk of the Town · as Associate Producer
1942
1941
1941
Penny Serenade · as Associate Producer

1921
A Sailor-Made Man · as Enlistee

1956
Giant · as Second Unit Director
1952
1951
A Place in the Sun · as Other
1936
Silly Billies · as Story
1935
The Rainmakers · as Story
1933
Grin and Bear It · as Story
1931
Chasing Trouble · as Story
1930
Over the Radio · as Story
1919
Just Neighbors · as Director Of Photography
1919
Spring Fever · as Cinematographer

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