death_place death_date birth_place birth_date yearsactive article_title name
los angeles , usa january 6 , 1925 bucharest , romania 1894 1916 -- 1925 fred hibbard
 fred hibbard
fred hibbard

fred hibbard -lrb- born fred fischbach , 1894 in bucharest , romania -- died january 6 , 1925 in los angeles -rrb- was a film director , screenwriter and producer of the silent era .
he directed 104 films between 1916 and 1925 .
he also wrote for 61 films between 1918 and 1925 .
as freddy fischbach , he began his screen career as a cameraman at mack sennett 's keystone studio , where he worked with comedy star roscoe arbuckle .
sennett promoted fischbach to director , with his surname americanized to fred fishback .
anyone with keystone credentials was welcomed by lesser comedy studios , and fishback secured a job directing comedy shorts for universal pictures , many of them featuring former keystone and hal roach bit player lige conley .
in 1921 fishback was involved in the famous sex scandal surrounding his friend roscoe arbuckle .
arbuckle hosted a party in san francisco that got out of hand , and fishback was a member of arbuckle 's coterie .
both arbuckle and fishback had to change their professional names to keep working as the notoriety subsided .
performer arbuckle became director william goodrich , and fishback adopted the pseudonym fred hibbard .
both arbuckle and hibbard were hired to direct at educational pictures .
hibbard , reunited with lige conley , helped to develop conley into a comedy star in a lengthy series of slapstick short subjects .
hibbard also directed one of educational 's leading comedians , lloyd hamilton .
hibbard died at the age of 30 ; his last films were released posthumously .
