Fred Guiol

Writer, Producer, Director, Actor

February 17, 1898 — 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
    Penny Serenade1941
  • Tanks a Million
    Tanks a Million1941
  • Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls1941
  • Here Comes Trouble
    Here Comes Trouble1948
  • Miss Polly
    Miss Polly1941
  • Hay Foot
    Hay Foot1942
  • The McGuerins from Brooklyn
    The McGuerins from Brooklyn1942
  • Yanks Ahoy
    Yanks Ahoy1943
  • Fall In
    Fall In1942
  • Prairie Chickens
    Prairie Chickens1943

Known For

  • Giant
    Giant1956
  • A Place in the Sun
    A Place in the Sun1951
  • Penny Serenade
    Penny Serenade1941
  • The Talk of the Town
    The Talk of the Town1942
  • The More the Merrier
    The More the Merrier1943
  • Do Detectives Think?
    Do Detectives Think?1927
  • Duck Soup
    Duck Soup1927
  • Vigil in the Night
    Vigil in the Night1940
  • The Second 100 Years
    The Second 100 Years1927
  • Slipping Wives
    Slipping Wives1927
  • 45 Minutes from Hollywood
    45 Minutes from Hollywood1926
  • The Nitwits
    The Nitwits1935
  • Their Purple Moment
    Their Purple Moment1928
  • Tanks a Million
    Tanks a Million1941
  • Mummy's Boys
    Mummy's Boys1936
  • Here Comes Trouble
    Here Comes Trouble1948
  • Miss Polly
    Miss Polly1941
  • Something to Live For
    Something to Live For1952
  • Kentucky Kernels
    Kentucky Kernels1934
  • A Sailor-Made Man
    A Sailor-Made Man1921

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
Yanks AhoyOn Plex
1943
Prairie Chickens · as Associate ProducerOn Plex
1943
The More the Merrier · as Associate Producer
1943
Taxi, Mister · as Associate Producer
1942
The McGuerins from Brooklyn · as Associate ProducerOn Plex
1942
Fall InOn Plex
1942
The Talk of the Town · as Associate Producer
1942
Hay FootOn Plex
1941
1941
Penny Serenade · as Associate ProducerOn Plex

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