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Fred Niblo (born Frederick Liedtke; January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.
Fred Niblo entered films in 1917 after two decades as a touring actor in vaudeville and one-time manager of 'The Four Cohans' (he married Josephine Cohan, the sister of George M. Cohan). He made his film debut with two early Australian silent films in 1916.
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- York, Nebraska, USA
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- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Fred Niblo Jr. (January 23, 1903 – February 18, 1973) was a successful American screenwriter. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for the film The Criminal Code (1931) with Seton I. Miller. Niblo retired from films in 1950 to become a businessman.
Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer. He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fred Niblo was a silent film director who made Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) and worked with Greta Garbo. He was also a vaudeville actor and a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- January 6, 1874
- November 11, 1948
Fred Niblo. The Three Musketeers [2021. Restoration. MoMA]. 1921/2021. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation and the Film Preservation Society. W4571. Film
Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Niblo (January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.
