Fred Guiol
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Fred Guiol (February 17, 1898 – May 23, 1964), pronounced "Gill," was an American film director and screenwriter.
Career
Guiol worked at the Hal Roach Studios for many years, first as a property man, later as assistant director and finally writer and director. He directed Laurel and Hardy's earliest short films, as their famous comic partnership gradually developed during 1927.[1] Guiol directed many of Hal Roach's Streamliners in the 1940s.
Guiol had worked closely with another Roach employee, cameraman George Stevens. When Stevens became a director in the 1930s, he often engaged Guiol as a screenwriter, Guiol, along with Ivan Moffat, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the George Stevens production of Giant.[2]
Fred Guiol is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Partial filmography
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- The Battling Orioles (1924)
- 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)
- What's Your Racket? (1934)
- Silly Billies (1936)
- Vigil in the Night (1940)
- Giant (1956)
References
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