Personal Info
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.
