Fred Guiol

Fred Guiol

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1898-02-17

  • Day of Death

    1964-05-23 (66 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    San Francisco, California, USA

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.

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