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
(1956)
Second Unit Director
A Place in the Sun
(1951)
Other
Something to Live For
(1952)
Other
Full Filmography
Directing
Heavy Seas
(1923)
Director
The Great Outdoors
(1923)
Director
Don't Park There
(1924)
Director
The Battling Orioles
(1924)
Director
The Goofy Age
(1924)
Director
Meet the Missus
(1924)
Director
Sure-Mike!
(1925)
Director
Tell It to a Policeman
(1925)
Director
Flaming Flappers
(1925)
Director
The Haunted Honeymoon
(1925)
Director
Papa Be Good!
(1925)
Director
Along Came Auntie
(1926)
Director
45 Minutes from Hollywood
(1926)
Director
Get 'Em Young
(1926)
Director
Say It with Babies
(1926)
Director
Long Pants
(1926)
Director
Don Key (Son of Burro)
(1926)
Director
Sugar Daddies
(1927)
Director
Duck Soup
(1927)
Director
With Love and Hisses
(1927)
Director
Love 'Em and Weep
(1927)
Director
Do Detectives Think?
(1927)
Director
Why Girls Love Sailors
(1927)
Director
The Second Hundred Years
(1927)
Director
Slipping Wives
(1927)
Director
Two-Time Mama
(1927)
Director
Pass the Gravy
(1928)
Director
Limousine Love
(1928)
Director
The Boy Friend
(1928)
Director
Feed 'em and Weep
(1928)
Director
The Family Group
(1928)
Director
Aching Youth
(1928)
Director
The Fight Pest
(1928)
Director
Skirt Shy
(1929)
Director
The Fighting Parson
(1930)
Director
The Head Guy
(1930)
Director
Hold the Baby
(1930)
Director
Live and Learn
(1930)
Director
Traffic Tangle
(1930)
Director
Breakfast in Bed
(1930)
Director
Rich Uncles
(1930)
Director
Disappearing Enemies
(1931)
Director
The Rainmakers
(1935)
Director
A Quiet Fourth
(1935)
Director
Raised and Called
(1935)
Director
Horse Heir
(1935)
Director
Mummy's Boys
(1936)
Director
Silly Billies
(1936)
Director
Tanks a Million
(1941)
Director
Miss Polly
(1941)
Director
Hay Foot
(1942)
Director
Here Comes Trouble
(1948)
Director
A Place in the Sun
(1951)
Other
As You Were
(1951)
Director
Mr. Walkie Talkie
(1952)
Director
Something to Live For
(1952)
Other
Giant
(1956)
Second Unit Director
Camera
Writing
Love 'Em and Weep
(1927)
Writer
Rich Uncles
(1930)
Writer
Boys Will Be Boys
(1932)
Writer
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
(1933)
Writer
What Fur
(1933)
Story
Flirting in the Park
(1933)
Story
Walking Back Home
(1933)
Story
Kentucky Kernels
(1934)
Screenplay
Rough Necking
(1934)
Story
Ocean Swells
(1934)
Writer
The Nitwits
(1935)
Screenplay
The Rainmakers
(1935)
Story
Silly Billies
(1936)
Story
Gunga Din
(1939)
Screenplay
Vigil in the Night
(1940)
Screenplay
Abroad with Two Yanks
(1944)
Writer
Giant
(1956)
Screenplay
Production
Penny Serenade
(1941)
Associate Producer
Niagara Falls
(1941)
Producer
The Talk of the Town
(1942)
Producer
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
(1942)
Associate Producer
Fall In
(1942)
Producer
Hay Foot
(1942)
Producer
Dudes Are Pretty People
(1942)
Associate Producer
About Face
(1942)
Producer
The More the Merrier
(1943)
Associate Producer
Prairie Chickens
(1943)
Associate Producer
Taxi, Mister
(1943)
Associate Producer
Yanks Ahoy
(1943)
Producer
Here Comes Trouble
(1948)
Producer