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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.

Known For

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

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

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