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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 Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the film Giant.
Birth Name
Frederick Lawrence Guiol
Born
Thursday, 17 February 1898
Died
Saturday, 23 May 1964
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| A Sailor-Made Man | Enlistee | 1921 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| A Sailor-Made Man | Enlistee | 1921 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Mr. Walkie Talkie | 1952 |
| My Hero | 1952 |
| As You Were | 1951 |
| Here Comes Trouble | 1948 |
| Hay Foot | 1942 |
| Miss Polly | 1941 |
| Tanks a Million | 1941 |
| Mummy's Boys | 1936 |
| Silly Billies | 1936 |
| The Rainmakers | 1935 |
| A Quiet Fourth | 1935 |
| Skirt Shy | 1929 |
| Feed 'em and Weep | 1928 |
| The Boy Friend | 1928 |
| Their Purple Moment | 1928 |
| Limousine Love | 1928 |
| Pass the Gravy | 1928 |
| Do Detectives Think? | 1927 |
| The Second 100 Years | 1927 |
| Sailors, Beware! | 1927 |
| Sugar Daddies | 1927 |
| With Love and Hisses | 1927 |
| Why Girls Love Sailors | 1927 |
| Love 'Em and Weep | 1927 |
| Slipping Wives | 1927 |
| Duck Soup | 1927 |
| 45 Minutes from Hollywood | 1926 |
| Get 'Em Young | 1926 |
| Along Came Auntie | 1926 |
| Say It with Babies | 1926 |
| Long Pants | 1926 |
| The Battling Orioles | 1924 |
| Don't Park There | 1924 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Two Knights from Brooklyn | 1957 |
| Here Comes Trouble | 1948 |
| Yanks Ahoy | 1943 |
| The More the Merrier | 1943 |
| Taxi, Mister | 1943 |
| Prairie Chickens | 1943 |
| The McGuerins from Brooklyn | 1942 |
| Fall In | 1942 |
| The Talk of the Town | 1942 |
| About Face | 1942 |
| Dudes Are Pretty People | 1942 |
| Hay Foot | 1942 |
| Niagara Falls | 1941 |
| Penny Serenade | 1941 |
| Two Plus Fours | 1930 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1957 | Oscar | Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Adapted | Nominated |
