A portrait of Fred Guiol

Fred Guiol

Directing

Born

February 17, 1898

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Deceased

May 23, 1964

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.

The Filmography

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