become a successful Hollywood screenwriter.
Fred was seventy-four when he died of pneumonia on November 11, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His body is buried at Forrest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Career Years
For twenty years, Fred Niblo traveled the world participating in vaudeville as well as acting in several small theater productions. In 1916, he decided to try his luck in the field of directing and his first silent film, ‘Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,’ was filmed in Australia. The film was released on January 31st of that year.
His second effort was a 40-minute silent film entitled ‘Officer 666.’ In this movie, Niblo appeared with two of the top talents of the time, Enid Bennet (who would become his second wife) and her brother, George Bryant. The movie was a comedy and its original script is preserved at the