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Fred Guiol

Film Director / Screenwriter / Cinematographer / Film Producer / Actor | * 02/17/1898 († 66, 05/23/1964) | San Francisco, California (United States of America (USA))
Fred Guiol (February 17, 1898 – May 23, 1964), pronounced "Gill," was an American film director and screenwriter. ()

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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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Romance / Love | Drama

Known for these Movies & Shows

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial ...

Giant

FSK: 12+ years

1956 | 3.8/5 | 3h 21min
Drama, Western
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Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought. ...

The Rainmakers

Certification unknown

1935 | 3.0/5 | 1h 18min
Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
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A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act. ...

Shane

FSK: 6+ years

1953 | 3.7/5 | 1h 58min
Drama, Western
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British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they u ...

Gunga Din

FSK: 12+ years

1939 | 3.3/5 | 1h 57min
Adventure, War, Comedy
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Awards & Nominations for Fred Guiol

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Movies with Fred Guiol as Crew(84)

Writing/Screenplay1956 Giant
Directing/Other1952 Something to Live For
Directing/Director1952 Mr. Walkie Talkie
Directing/Other1951 A Place in the Sun
Directing/Director1948 Here Comes Trouble
Production/Producer1948 Here Comes Trouble
Writing/Writer1944 Abroad with Two Yanks
Production/Associate Producer1943 The More the Merrier
Production/Producer1943 Yanks Ahoy
Production/Associate Producer1943 Taxi, Mister
Production/Associate Producer1943 Prairie Chickens
Directing/Director1942 Hay Foot
Production/Producer1942 Hay Foot
Production/Producer1942 Fall In
Production/Associate Producer1942 Dudes Are Pretty People
Production/Producer1942 About Face
Production/Associate Producer1942 The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Production/Producer1942 The Talk of the Town
Production/Producer1941 Niagara Falls
Directing/Director1941 Tanks a Million
Production/Associate Producer1941 Penny Serenade
Directing/Director1941 Miss Polly
Writing/Screenplay1940 Vigil in the Night
Writing/Screenplay1939 Gunga Din
Directing/Director1936 Silly Billies
Writing/Story1936 Silly Billies
Directing/Director1936 Mummy's Boys
Directing/Director1935 Raised and Called
Directing/Director1935 A Quiet Fourth
Writing/Screenplay1935 The Nitwits
Directing/Director1935 Horse Heir
Directing/Director1935 The Rainmakers
Writing/Story1935 The Rainmakers
Writing/Story1934 Rough Necking
Writing/Screenplay1934 Kentucky Kernels
Writing/Story1933 Walking Back Home
Writing/Story1933 Flirting in the Park
Writing/Writer1933 The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Writing/Story1933 What Fur
Writing/Writer1932 Boys Will Be Boys
Directing/Director1931 Disappearing Enemies
Directing/Director1930 Hold the Baby
Directing/Director1930 The Head Guy
Directing/Director1930 Live and Learn
Directing/Director1930 Breakfast in Bed
Directing/Director1930 Rich Uncles
Writing/Writer1930 Rich Uncles
Directing/Director1930 The Fighting Parson
Directing/Director1930 Traffic Tangle
Directing/Director1929 Skirt Shy
Directing/Director1928 Pass the Gravy
Directing/Director1928 Aching Youth
Directing/Director1928 The Family Group
Directing/Director1928 Feed 'em and Weep
Directing/Director1928 The Boy Friend
Directing/Director1928 Limousine Love
Directing/Director1928 The Fight Pest
Directing/Director1927 Two-Time Mama
Directing/Director1927 The Second Hundred Years
Directing/Director1927 Sailors, Beware!
Directing/Director1927 Love 'Em and Weep
Writing/Writer1927 Love 'Em and Weep
Directing/Director1927 Why Girls Love Sailors
Directing/Director1927 Sugar Daddies
Directing/Director1927 Duck Soup
Directing/Director1927 Do Detectives Think?
Directing/Director1927 Slipping Wives
Directing/Director1927 With Love and Hisses
Directing/Director1926 Don Key (Son of Burro)
Directing/Director1926 Get 'Em Young
Directing/Director1926 Say It with Babies
Directing/Director1926 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Directing/Director1926 Along Came Auntie
Directing/Director1926 Long Pants
Directing/Director1925 Tell It to a Policeman
Directing/Director1925 Sure-Mike!
Directing/Director1925 Papa Be Good!
Directing/Director1925 The Haunted Honeymoon
Directing/Director1925 Flaming Flappers
Directing/Director1924 Don't Park There
Directing/Director1924 The Battling Orioles
Directing/Director1923 The Great Outdoors
Directing/Director1923 Heavy Seas
Camera/Director of Photography1919 Just Neighbors

Full Name: Fred Guiol
Born: Thursday, 02/17 1898 (February) in San Francisco, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 05/23 1964 (May) in Bishop (aged: 66)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Siblings: Clara Guiol
Other names for Fred Guiol (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Fred L. Guiol"
"Fred M. Guiol"
"Frederick Lawrence Guiol"
Fred Guiol frequently works together with these people:
Hal Roach (36x, Crew)
George Stevens (29x, Crew)
Stan Laurel (15x, Actor)
Oliver Hardy (13x, Actor)
Charlie Hall (12x, Actor)
Leo McCarey (11x, Crew)
Richard C. Currier (11x, Crew)
H.M. Walker (11x, Crew)
James Finlayson (10x, Actor)
Glenn Tryon (10x, Actor)
Robert Pittack (10x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:318201, Added: 08/13/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024