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Fred Guiol
Director 1898 - 1964

Fred Guiol

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
Here Comes Trouble

Here Comes Trouble

Fred Guiol 1948 55m 4.0

A newspaper publisher sends his future son-in-law to handle a job that ends up with unexpected trouble.

Hay Foot

Hay Foot

Fred Guiol 1942 48m 5.0

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.

Pass the Gravy

Pass the Gravy

Leo McCarey, Fred Guiol 1928 23m

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.

With Love and Hisses

With Love and Hisses

Fred Guiol 1927 21m 6.0

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

Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors

Fred Guiol 1927 20m 6.0

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.

The Second 100 Years

The Second 100 Years

Fred Guiol 1927 23m 6.0

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

Sugar Daddies

Sugar Daddies

Fred Guiol 1927 16m 5.0

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.

Slipping Wives

Slipping Wives

Fred Guiol 1927 23m 6.0

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.

Love 'Em and Weep

Love 'Em and Weep

Fred Guiol 1927 20m 5.0

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.

Duck Soup

Duck Soup

Fred Guiol 1927 17m 6.0

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.

Do Detectives Think?

Do Detectives Think?

Fred Guiol 1927 19m 6.0

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

45 Minutes from Hollywood

45 Minutes from Hollywood

Fred Guiol 1926 18m 5.0

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.

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