Person Details
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Aliases: Fred L. Guiol , Fred M. Guiol , Frederick Lawrence Guiol
Gender: Male
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 87
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Giant
(1956) ScreenplayA Place in the Sun
(1951) OtherGunga Din
(1939) ScreenplayPenny Serenade
(1941) Associate ProducerThe Talk of the Town
(1942) ProducerThe More the Merrier
(1943) Associate Producer45 Minutes from Hollywood
(1926) DirectorSomething to Live For
(1952) OtherActing
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Writing
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Camera
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| 1919 | Director of Photography | |
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