Fred Guiol

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

Giant poster
7.6

Wealthy 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

Gunga Din poster
6.5

British 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

Vigil in the Night poster
5.9

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

Vigil in the Night

1940

Why Girls Love Sailors poster
5.5

Stan 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

About Face poster
6.6

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

About Face

1942

45 Minutes from Hollywood poster
5.3

A 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

Giant poster
7.6

Wealthy 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

Gunga Din poster
6.5

British 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

Vigil in the Night poster
5.9

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

Vigil in the Night

1940

Why Girls Love Sailors poster
5.5

Stan 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

About Face poster
6.6

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

About Face

1942

45 Minutes from Hollywood poster
5.3

A 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

Slipping Wives poster
5.2

Neglected 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

The Rainmakers poster
7.0

Roscoe 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

Sure-Mike! poster
7.0

Vermuda, 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

Fall In poster
6.5

An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

Fall In

1942

Sugar Daddies poster
6.0

After 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

What's Your Racket poster
8.0

Mae Cosgrove, a nightclub hostess, carries out a robbery on the safe of a gangster's palatial home.

What's Your Racket

1934

The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble poster
10.0

Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.

The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble

1933

The Second 100 Years poster
6.2

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

The Second 100 Years

1927

Hay Foot poster
6.2

Colonel 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

Hay Foot poster
6.2

Colonel 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

Kentucky Kernels poster
6.4

The 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

Mr. Walkie Talkie poster
6.5

Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.

Mr. Walkie Talkie

1952

Do Detectives Think? poster
6.4

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

Do Detectives Think?

1927

Abroad with Two Yanks poster
6.7

Biff 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

Miss Polly poster
4.9

A 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

Tanks a Million poster
5.8

Chubby 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

Yanks Ahoy poster
6.6

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

Yanks Ahoy

1943

Silly Billies poster
8.5

The 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

Don Key (Son of Burro) poster
8.0

The 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

Limousine Love poster
6.0

On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car

Limousine Love

1928

Mummy's Boys poster
5.0

Wheeler & 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

No artwork available
10.0

Leon Errol is an information wizard at the office but can't answer any of his son's homework questions.

Home Work

—

As You Were poster
7.5

In 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

No artwork available
8.0

An old lady and her two girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.

Ocean Swells

1934

Pass the Gravy poster
6.6

Schultz 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

With Love and Hisses poster
6.1

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

With Love and Hisses

1927

Here Comes Trouble poster
5.2

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

Here Comes Trouble

1948

Here Comes Trouble poster
5.2

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

Here Comes Trouble

1948

Love 'Em and Weep poster
5.7

Titus 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

Love 'Em and Weep poster
5.7

Titus 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

The Nitwits poster
6.7

A 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

Skirt Shy poster
4.5

Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.

Skirt Shy

1929

Niagara Falls poster
6.7

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

Niagara Falls

1941

Duck Soup poster
6.4

Fleeing 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