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Fred Guiol is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer, Other, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 17 february 1898 at San Francisco (USA)
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. 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.
He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
(1956)
(Director)
(1951)
(Other)
(1943)
(Associate Producer)
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Nationality USA
Birth 17 february 1898 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 23 may 1964 (at 66 years) at Bishop (USA)
Birth 17 february 1898 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 23 may 1964 (at 66 years) at Bishop (USA)
He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Fred Guiol a épousé Ethel May Hall (1900 - 1960).Best films
(1956)(Director)
(1951)(Other)
(1943)(Associate Producer)
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A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
, 47minutesDirected by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Fred Guiol, Dick Sutherland, Jobyna Ralston
Roles un soldat
Rating67%
"The Boy" (Lloyd) is an idle playboy and heir to $20,000,000, relaxing at an exclusive resort. When he sees "The Girl" (Mildred Davis), surrounded by a flock of admirers, he suddenly asks her to marry him. Taken aback, she sends him to get the approval of her father, a tough, hardworking steel magnate. The girl's father knows and disapproves of the Boy's indolence, and demands that he first get a job to prove that he can do something. The Boy sees a recruiting poster and applies to join the United States Navy. When the magnate decides to take a long cruise on his yacht, he tells his daughter to bring along her friends. She invites the Boy, but he finds he cannot get out of his three year enlistment.
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Giant (1956)
, 3h21Directed by Fred Guiol, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about racism
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Nick Adams, Mercedes McCambridge
Rating75%
The movie follows a Texas family over a quarter century from the 1920s until after World War II. Themes of discrimination along race, class and gender lines, as well as the role they played in the social evolution of post-war Texas, are prominent.
Something to Live For (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Fred Guiol, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Richard Derr, Douglas Dick, Herbert Heyes
Rating63%
As You Were (1951)
, 57minutesDirected by Fred Guiol
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Russell Hicks, John Ridgely, Sondra Rodgers, Joan Vohs
Rating51%
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
, 55minutesDirected by Fred Guiol
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Emory Parnell, Betty Compson, Joan Woodbury, Paul Stanton
Rating54%
Returning home from his Army service in the Pacific, Dodo Doubleday resumes his former job as a copy boy at a newspaper. Dodo's girlfriend Penny Blake is determined to have her father, the editor of the newspaper, promote Dodo to a job with a salary where they can afford to marry. However her father, "Windy" Blake detests Dodo and wishes Penny to marry someone of her own social standing. After a fourth of the paper's police reporters is beaten up by gangsters and leaves town, Windy sees the answer to his problems by promoting Dodo to Police Reporter.
Hay Foot (1942)
, 48minutesDirected by Fred Guiol
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Frank Faylen, James Gleason, Noah Beery, Jr, Elyse Knox
Rating60%
Dodo Doubleday has been explicably reduced from First Sergeant to Staff Sergeant and has resumed being orderly to his regimental commander Colonel Barkley. Sergeant Ames is still a buck sergeant who hates Dodo because he advanced to outrank Ames within Dodo's first 24 hours in the army. Dodo's former comrade in arms Charlie Cobb is also a buck sergeant. As both Cobb and Ames are the best marksman in the regiment but also constantly boasting of their prowess, Colonel Barkley seeks to find an expert who can outshoot them.
Tanks a Million (1941)
, 50minutesDirected by Fred Guiol, John E. Burch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery, Jr, Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox, Douglas Fowley
Rating58%
Dorian Doubleday, "Dodo" to his friends, works as a clerk at a railway station but he has the ability of photographic memory. When he is drafted in the Army, he memorizes all the manuals for Army procedure immediately before starting his service.
Miss Polly (1941)
, 45minutesDirected by Fred Guiol, John E. Burch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Kathleen Howard, Elyse Knox, Brenda Forbes, Dink Trout
Rating58%
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Silly Billies (1936)
, 1h4Directed by Fred Guiol, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Harry Woods, Ethan Allen Laidlaw, Delmar Watson
Rating60%
In 1851, dentists Roy Banks (Wheeler) and Philip "Painless" Pennington (Woolsey) attempt to save a town from being led into an Indian ambush.
The Cow's Kimona (1936)
Directed by Fred Guiol, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Actors Glenn Tryon, Charles Sellon, Oliver Hardy
Rating59%
Mummy's Boys (1936)
, 1h8Directed by Fred Guiol, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper, Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas, Willie Best
Rating51%
This script must be run from the command line
The Rainmakers (1935)
, 1h19Directed by Fred Guiol
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Berton Churchill, George Meeker, Clarence Wilson
Rating59%
Rainmakers Billy (Wheeler) and Roscoe (Woolsey) take on a crooked businessman out to cash in on a drought.
Feed 'em and Weep (1928)
, 20minutesDirected by Fred Guiol
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Hall, Frank Alexander
Rating63%
The Family Group (1928)
, 20minutesDirected by Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Edgar Kennedy, Gertrude Astor, Tiny Sandford, Douglas Haig
The Fight Pest (1928)
, 20minutesDirected by Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Edgar Kennedy, Frank Hagney, Bull Montana