Directed credits
42
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Fred Guiol
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.6
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Directed movies: 42Directed series: 0All crew credits: 65
TMDB ID: 18740
IMDb ID: nm0347451
Known for: Directing
Born: February 17, 1898
Died: May 23, 1964
Age: 66
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1919 - 1956
Years active: 38
Average TMDB rating: 6.37
Wikidata: Q3086842
Also known as
Fred L. Guiol • Fred M. Guiol • Frederick Lawrence Guiol
Frequent jobs
Director (41)Director of Photography (1)Associate Producer (7)Screenplay (5)Producer (4)Story (3)Other (2)Writer (2)
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.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Fred Guiol.
5.0
Mr. Walkie Talkie
Director
1952 Movie
5.0
As You Were
Director
1951 Movie
4.6
Here Comes Trouble
Director
1948 Movie
6.0
Hay Foot
Director
1942 Movie
4.5
Miss Polly
Director
1941 Movie
5.3
Tanks a Million
Director
1941 Movie
4.7
Mummy's Boys
Director
1936 Movie
8.0
Silly Billies
Director
1936 Movie
6.0
The Rainmakers
Director
1935 Movie
What's Your Racket
Director
1934 Movie
The Fighting Parson
Director
1930 Movie
3.3
The Head Guy
Director
1930 Movie
2.0
Skirt Shy
Director
1929 Movie
5.3
The Boy Friend
Director
1928 Movie
5.7
Limousine Love
Director
1928 Movie
Aching Youth
Director
1928 Movie
The Family Group
Director
1928 Movie
6.4
Pass the Gravy
Director
1928 Movie
6.3
Do Detectives Think?
Director
1927 Movie
6.2
The Second 100 Years
Director
1927 Movie
5.9
Sugar Daddies
Director
1927 Movie
6.1
With Love and Hisses
Director
1927 Movie
5.3
Why Girls Love Sailors
Director
1927 Movie
5.5
Love 'Em and Weep
Director
1927 Movie
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Fred Guiol.
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Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Fred Guiol.
7.6
Giant
Screenplay
1956 Movie
5.7
Limousine Love
Director
1928 Movie
6.0
About Face
Producer
1942 Movie
Sure-Mike!
Director
1925 Movie
7.3
A Place in the Sun
Other
1951 Movie
5.9
Sugar Daddies
Director
1927 Movie
6.0
Hay Foot
Director
1942 Movie
6.5
Gunga Din
Screenplay
1939 Movie
What Fur
Story
1933 Movie
4.9
Slipping Wives
Director
1927 Movie
Aching Youth
Director
1928 Movie
7.3
The Talk of the Town
Associate Producer
1942 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Fred Guiol.
7.6
Giant
Screenplay
1956 Movie
6.8
Something to Live For
Other
1952 Movie
7.3
A Place in the Sun
Other
1951 Movie
6.0
Abroad with Two Yanks
Writer
1944 Movie
6.3
Yanks Ahoy
Producer
1943 Movie
Prairie Chickens
Associate Producer
1943 Movie
6.9
The More the Merrier
Associate Producer
1943 Movie
3.6
Taxi, Mister
Associate Producer
1943 Movie
5.5
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Associate Producer
1942 Movie
6.0
Fall In
Producer
1942 Movie
7.3
The Talk of the Town
Associate Producer
1942 Movie
6.0
About Face
Producer
1942 Movie
7.0
Dudes Are Pretty People
Associate Producer
1942 Movie
6.8
Niagara Falls
Producer
1941 Movie
6.6
Penny Serenade
Associate Producer
1941 Movie
5.5
Vigil in the Night
Screenplay
1940 Movie