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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

90

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-17

Day of Death

1964-05-23 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Also Known As

Fred L. Guiol

Fred M. Guiol

Frederick Lawrence Guiol

Fred Guiol

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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Acting

Production

Crew

Directing