Fred Guiol

Birthday: 2/17/1898
Deathday: 5/23/1964
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: Fred L. Guiol , Fred M. Guiol, Frederick Lawrence 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.