
Directing
Fred Guiol
Born — Died
1898-02-17 — 1964-05-23
Place of birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 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.
Known for
7.6Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Giant
1956
6.5British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Gunga Din
1939
5.9A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Vigil in the Night
1940
5.5Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927
6.6Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
About Face
1942
5.3A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926
Behind the camera
7.6Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Giant
1956
6.5British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Gunga Din
1939
5.9A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Vigil in the Night
1940
5.5Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927
6.6Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
About Face
1942
5.3A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926
5.2Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
Slipping Wives
1927
7.0Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
The Rainmakers
1935
7.0Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager.
Sure-Mike!
1925
6.5An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
Fall In
1942
6.0After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
Sugar Daddies
1927
8.0Mae Cosgrove, a nightclub hostess, carries out a robbery on the safe of a gangster's palatial home.
What's Your Racket
1934
10.0Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
1933
6.2Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
The Second 100 Years
1927
6.2Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.
Hay Foot
1942
6.2Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gun shy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb.
Hay Foot
1942
6.4The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
Kentucky Kernels
1934
6.5Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952
6.4An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
Do Detectives Think?
1927
6.7Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
Abroad with Two Yanks
1944
4.9A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Miss Polly
1941
5.8Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
Tanks a Million
1941
6.6Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
Yanks Ahoy
1943
8.5The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Silly Billies
1936
8.0The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926
6.0On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Limousine Love
1928
5.0Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Mummy's Boys
1936
Leon Errol is an information wizard at the office but can't answer any of his son's homework questions.
Home Work
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7.5In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with blandishments of travel and glamour in the Army.
As You Were
1951
An old lady and her two girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.
Ocean Swells
1934
6.6Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
Pass the Gravy
1928
6.1Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
With Love and Hisses
1927
5.2A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Here Comes Trouble
1948
5.2A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Here Comes Trouble
1948
5.7Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
Love 'Em and Weep
1927
5.7Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
Love 'Em and Weep
1927
6.7A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
The Nitwits
1935
4.5Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
Skirt Shy
1929
6.7The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Niagara Falls
1941
6.4Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.
Duck Soup
1927
