Fred Niblo junior

Fred Niblo junior (born January 23, 1903 in New York , † February 18, 1973 in Encino , California ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

Fred Niblo Jr. was born in 1903 in New York, the son of director Fred Niblo and vaudeville artist Josephine Cohan (1874–1916) . He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for a year . He then worked for five years as the manager of his uncle George M. Cohan's production company on Broadway . He then worked for the New York Morning Telegraph . In 1928 he finally went to Hollywood, where he worked as a screenwriter from 1931. A year later he received along with Seton I. Miller , a Oscar nomination in the category Best Adapted Screenplay for Howard Hawks ' film drama The Criminal Code ( The Criminal Code ), which on Martin Flavin's play of the same is based. By 1950, Niblo Jr. was involved in scripts for almost 50 films on behalf of various production companies. Most of them were low-budget films. He also worked for American television in the 1950s.

With his wife Patricia Henry (1910–1998), with whom he was married until his death in 1973, he had the three children Moira (married Obermeyer), Ann (married Rupp) and Dennis. His grave is in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles .

Filmography (selection)

1930: The Criminal Code ( The Criminal Code )
1933: Adventure in two continents ( King of the Jungle )
1934: The Road to Perdition ( Fugitive Lady )
1937: The Game That Kills
1940: A bomb Success ( An Angel from Texas )
1941: From City to City ( The Wagons Roll at Night )
1950: The Gray Gate to Hell ( Convicted )

Awards

1931: Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Criminal Code with Seton I. Miller

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Richard Gertner: International Television Almanac . Quigley Publishing Company, 1979, p. 170.
^ The New York Times Biographical Service . Volume 4, New York Times & Arno Press, 1973, p. 283.

personal data
SURNAME	Niblo, Fred junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	new York
DATE OF DEATH	18th February 1973
Place of death	Encino , California

[1] Richard Gertner: International Television Almanac . Quigley Publishing Company, 1979, p. 170.

[2] The New York Times Biographical Service . Volume 4, New York Times & Arno Press, 1973, p. 283.