Fred Guiol

Fred Guiol (February 17, 1898 – May 23, 1964), pronounced "Gill," was an American film director and screenwriter.

Fred Guiol
Born	(1898-02-17)February 17, 1898 San Francisco, California
Died	May 23, 1964(1964-05-23) (aged 66) Bishop, California
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter

Career

Guiol worked at the Hal Roach Studios for many years, first as a property man, later as assistant director and finally writer and director. He directed Laurel and Hardy's earliest short films, as their famous comic partnership gradually developed during 1927.^[1] Guiol directed many of Hal Roach's Streamliners in the 1940s.

Guiol had worked closely with another Roach employee, cameraman George Stevens. When Stevens became a director in the 1930s, he often engaged Guiol as a screenwriter, Guiol, along with Ivan Moffat, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the George Stevens production of Giant.^[2]

Fred Guiol is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Partial filmography

• The Battling Orioles (1924)
• Say It with Babies (1926)
• The Cow's Kimona (1926)
• Along Came Auntie (1926)
• Get 'Em Young (1926)
• 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
• Two-Time Mama (1927)
• Duck Soup (1927)
• Slipping Wives (1927)
• Love 'em and Weep (1927)
• Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
• With Love and Hisses (1927)
• Do Detectives Think? (1927)
• Sugar Daddies (1927)
• The Second Hundred Years (1927)
• Pass the Gravy (1928)
• Breakfast in Bed (1930)
• What's Your Racket? (1934)
• Silly Billies (1936)
• Vigil in the Night (1940)
• Giant (1956)