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
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8

Giant

(1956) Screenplay
A Place in the Sun
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7

A Place in the Sun

(1951) Other
Gunga Din
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6

Gunga Din

(1939) Screenplay
Penny Serenade
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7

Penny Serenade

(1941) Associate Producer
The Talk of the Town
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7

The Talk of the Town

(1942) Producer
The More the Merrier
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7

The More the Merrier

(1943) Associate Producer
45 Minutes from Hollywood
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5

45 Minutes from Hollywood

(1926) Director
Something to Live For
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7

Something to Live For

(1952) Other

Acting

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Directing

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1956 Second Unit Director
1952 Director
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1951 Director
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1948 Director
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Director
1936 Director
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1935 Director
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1931 Director
1930 Director
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1929 Director
1928 Director
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1927 Director
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1926 Director
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1925 Director
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1924 Director
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1923 Director
Director
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Writing

Production

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
1919 Director of Photography
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