Person

Fred Guiol

Directing

Known for: Directing
Born: Feb 17, 1898
Died: May 23, 1964
From: San Francisco, California, USA

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.