Fred Guiol
An image from A Place in the Sun, one of the productions that also features Fred Guiol.
Fred Guiol

Fred Guiol

February 17, 1898 — San Francisco, California, USA

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.

Giant

Giant

1956

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun

1951

Gunga Din

Gunga Din

1939

The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

1942

Penny Serenade

Penny Serenade

1941

The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier

1943

The Second Hundred Years

The Second Hundred Years

1927

Duck Soup

Duck Soup

1927