N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927.
11. Fred Niblo (Frederick Liedtke, 1874-1948) of the Directors Branch.
Niblo had something of a specialty during the silent period: replacing directors who had lost control of their productions. He is most famous for rescuing BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925) and then Greta Garbo's film THE TEMPTRESS (1926).
His career limped into the sound era, but his last successful films were silents: CAMILLE (1926), with Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland, and the splendid MYSTERIOUS LADY (1928), with Garbo and Conrad Nagel (A.M.P.A.S. founder #5).
Niblo's first wife was Josephine Cohan, sister of George M. Cohan; his second was Enid Bennett, star of many of his early films.
