Fred Guiol

Nacimiento : 1898-02-17, San Francisco, California, USA

Muerte : 1964-05-23

Historia

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.

Películas

Gigante
Screenplay
Jordan "Bick" Benedict, un joven terrateniente, llega a su inmenso rancho de Texas con su flamante esposa Leslie Benedict, una rica y bella muchacha del Este. No tardan mucho en descubrir que pertenecen a mundos radicalmente opuestos y que los separa un abismo. Jett Rink es un arrogante y joven empleado de los Benedict que tiene la suerte de encontrar petróleo en unas tierras que le ha dejado en su testamento Luz, la hermana de Jordan; pero, a pesar de su inmensa fortuna, no consigue lo que realmente le importa: Leslie.
Mr. Walkie Talkie
Director
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
Una razón para vivir
Other
Un hombre que ha conseguido dejar el vicio de la bebida gracias a las reuniones de Alcohólicos Anónimos, se enamora de una actriz que se niega a admitir que se está convirtiendo en una borracha. Dadas las circunstancias, él empieza a dudar si quiere realmente romper su matrimonio por ella.
Un lugar en el sol
Other
Un obrero se ve envuelto en una historia entre dos mujeres de distinta clase social, una aristócrata y una trabajadora. Cuando la segunda queda embarazada, el destino del joven da un vuelco inesperado.
Here Comes Trouble
Producer
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Here Comes Trouble
Director
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Abroad with Two Yanks
Writer
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.
Yanks Ahoy
Producer
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
Prairie Chickens
Associate Producer
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.
Taxi, Mister
Associate Producer
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
El amor llamó dos veces
Associate Producer
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Washington ha visto notablemente incrementada su población y los problemas de alojamiento son cada vez mayores. Una chica se ve obligada a compartir su apartamento con dos hombres, lo cual provoca problemas de convivencia, pero la situación se complicará todavía más cuando surge el amor entre ella y el más joven de sus huéspedes. (FILMAFFINITY)
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Associate Producer
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
Fall In
Producer
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
El asunto del día
Producer
Leopold Dilg huye de la cárcel donde cumplía condena por incendio, y se esconde en casa de Nora, una amiga de la infancia. Pero resulta que ésta ha alquilado la casa durante el verano a Michael Lighcap, candidato al Tribunal Supremo. Dilg, que se hace pasar por el jardinero, y Nora logran convencer al magistrado de que Dilg es inocente. Entonces los tres intentan atrapar a los verdaderos delincuentes; pero, al mismo tiempo, los dos descubren que se han enamorado de Nora.
About Face
Producer
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Dudes Are Pretty People
Associate Producer
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Hay Foot
Producer
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
Director
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.
Miss Polly
Director
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.
Niagara Falls
Producer
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Tanks a Million
Director
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.
Serenata nostálgica
Associate Producer
Roger decide casarse con su novia antes de viajar a Japón, país al que lo envía el periódico en el que trabaja. En un terremoto pierden el hijo que esperaban y se quedan sin la posibilidad de tener más. Cuando regresan, deciden llevar una vida más tranquila y se trasladan a un pueblecito donde se hacen cargo del periódico local.
Noche de angustia
Screenplay
La enfermera Anne Lee vive entregada para su trabajo. Pero una fatídica noche, se responsabiliza de un error cometido por su hermana, también enfermera, aunque inexperta, que provoca la muerte de un niño. Anne es despedida de su trabajo, pero pronto encuentra un puesto en otro hospital, donde empieza a sentirse muy atraída por un joven doctor.
Gunga Din
Screenplay
Cutter, MacChesney y Ballantine, tres sargentos del ejército británico unidos por una estrecha amistad, son enviados a una zona montañosa de la India para averiguar las causas de la extraña interrupción de las comunicaciones telegráficas. Los tres vivirán, en compañía de Gunga Din, su porteador de agua, diversas aventuras que les enfrentarán a los temibles tags, una secta de adoradores de la diosa Kali. Descubrirán, además, un templo escondido, serán apresados y torturados y salvarán al ejército de caer en una trampa mortal.
Mummy's Boys
Director
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Silly Billies
Story
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
Director
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.
The Rainmakers
Story
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
Director
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
A Quiet Fourth
Director
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
The Nitwits
Screenplay
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Raised and Called
Director
Chandler induces Kennedy to ask the boss for a raise, and to pretend he is married, because the chief has a soft spot for his married employees. So Tom gets a $10 raise, and then the boss invites himself out to his house for dinner and to meet the missus, whereupon it becomes necessary for the boys to produce a wife in a hurry, and a dizzy blonde cutie from next door is elected.
Horse Heir
Director
Chick is trying to sell his cheap horse to a lady with a grating and annoying voice...sort of like Betty Boop. Jeanie is married to Tom and apparently she got the money from him. However, the pair accidentally take the wrong horse...instead of a broken down nag, it's a top racehorse. When they find out, they do their best to hide it by painting the horse. Hilarity ensues...or should have ensued.
Kentucky Kernels
Screenplay
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.
Rough Necking
Story
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
Walking Back Home
Story
Two drive in waitresses try to find a wealthy boyfriend.
What Fur
Story
1933 film short
Flirting in the Park
Story
A day at the park starts out well when two couples enter a boat race, but things start going south when the boys lose their shirts and one of the girls loses her dress.
Forasteros en Honduras
Writer
Kelly se enamora de un inspector de hacienda, cuya esposa divorciada le exige la pensión alimenticia.
Boys Will Be Boys
Writer
Frank Albertson's parents are worried about his seeing a showgirl instead of an "upstanding" young lady of class. But then Frank's father learns that the showgirl in question is the same one he himself has been flirting with. Eventually the whole family ends up at the nightclub, where the showgirl has a number of surprises in store for them.
Disappearing Enemies
Director
A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
Breakfast in Bed
Director
A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the same time, romantic complications ensue.
Hold the Baby
Director
short subject comedy
Traffic Tangle
Director
A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
Live and Learn
Director
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
Rich Uncles
Writer
When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.
Rich Uncles
Director
When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.
The Fighting Parson
Director
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
The Head Guy
Director
Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
Skirt Shy
Director
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
Feed 'em and Weep
Director
Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately. This film only survived in parts.
The Boy Friend
Director
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
The Fight Pest
Director
The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.
Limousine Love
Director
On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Aching Youth
Director
Aching Youth is a silent comedy short
The Family Group
Director
Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.
Pass the Gravy
Director
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.
Do Detectives Think?
Director
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
The Second Hundred Years
Director
Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
Sailors, Beware!
Director
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
Sugar Daddies
Director
James Finlayson es un rico hombre de negocios que un día se despierta sin recordar que se ha casado la noche anterior. Su abogado (Laurel) y el mayordomo (Hardy) tratarán de ayudarle a salir de esta situación.
With Love and Hisses
Director
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
Why Girls Love Sailors
Director
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.
Love 'Em and Weep
Writer
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
Director
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.
Slipping Wives
Director
Priscilla está casada con un artista llamado León. Sin embargo Leon no está mostrando mucho interés por ella. A si que trama un plan para darle celos con Stan que es un vendedor de pintura.Ollie lo viste para que cene esa noche con Priscila y engañar a Leon..pero todo se enredara...
Sopa de pato
Director
Huyendo de un grupo de guardabosques, que están reuniendo vagabundos para servir de bomberos, se refugian en una mansión. El propietario se ha ido de vacaciones y los sirvientes están ausentes, por lo que Hardy pretende ser el propietario y le ofrece alquilar la casa a una pareja inglesa. Hardy consigue que Laurel se haga pasar por la criada. Desafortunadamente, el propietario regresa y le dice a los posibles inquilinos que él es el propietario de la casa; Laurel y Hardy luego huyen de nuevo y son atrapados por los guardabosques y obligados a combatir incendios forestales.
Two-Time Mama
Director
The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Director
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.
Get 'Em Young
Director
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
Along Came Auntie
Director
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Director
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.
Say It with Babies
Director
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Long Pants
Director
Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who accidentally runs him down. But his father feels she is beyond his abilities and competes for her attention.
Flaming Flappers
Director
Mother - The hand that rocks the family - and rocks it often! A family comedy.
Tell It to a Policeman
Director
Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.
Sure-Mike!
Director
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.
The Haunted Honeymoon
Director
The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet Gaynor in one of her first films. One of the first comedies to parody horror films, it was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.
Papa Be Good!
Director
The Battling Orioles
Director
A young barber's girlfriend falls into the clutches of a shady nightclub owner and his cohorts, who plan to get her involved in their nefarious schemes. When his efforts to rescue her prove futile, he enlists the help of his father, who was at one time a professional baseball player, and his former teammates to save her.
Don't Park There
Director
Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season. The story amounts to little more than a one-joke anecdote, but oddly enough the joke is more relevant now than it was in 1924: this is the tale of a man who can't run a simple errand in the city because he can't find a parking space.
The Great Outdoors
Director
The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police. The Great Outdoors is the fourth episode of The Spat Family series.
Heavy Seas
Director
Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
Solo vecinos
Director of Photography
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard.