Fred Guiol

Known for
Directing
Born
February 17, 1898
Died
May 23, 1964
Born in
San Francisco, California, USA
Credits
15 titles

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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