Fred Guiol
Fred Guiol | |
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| Born | February 17, 1898 |
| Died | May 23, 1964 (aged 66) |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Fred Guiol (February 17, 1898 – May 23, 1964) 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.[1] 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.[2]
He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Partial filmography
- 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)
- Vigil in the Night (1940)
- Giant (1956)
References
- ^ "Fred Guiol". The New York Times.
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (October 11, 1956). "Screen: Large Subject; The Cast". The New York Times.
External links
- Fred Guiol at IMDb
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