Fred Guiol was born on February 17, 1898 in San Francisco, California, USA as Frederick Lawrence Guiol. He was a director and writer, known for Giant (1956), Shane (1953) and The Rainmakers (1935). He was married to Ethel Hall. He died on May 23, 1964 in Bishop, California.

Began his film career as a prop boy for D.W. Griffith and moved on to photograph and direct at the Hal Roach studios, where he met another upcoming cameraman/director, George Stevens; both men worked on many of the best Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent shorts. When Stevens moved on to RKO in the sound era, Guiol went with him. Unfortunately, many of the "B" films Guiol directed there did not make money. Stevens, however, never forgot him, hiring him as a screenwriter on Gunga Din (1939), associate producer on Penny Serenade (1941) and The More the Merrier (1943), producer of The Talk of the Town (1942) and associate director on A Place in the Sun (1951) and Shane (1953). In 1956 Guiol shared an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay on Stevens' Giant (1956).

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