Fred Ott's birth name is Frederick P. Ott.

Fred Ott was born in 1860, in New Jersey, USA.

The first film with a US copyright is "Fred Ott's Sneeze" or "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze," a five-second motion picture from 1894. It was submitted to the copyright office as a sheet of still images.

Fred Ott died on October 24, 1936, in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.

The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. L. Dickson at the Library of Congress in August 1893. The earliest copyrighted film that still survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, also known as Fred Ott's Sneeze, which records Fred Ott, an Edison employee, sneezing comically for the camera. This motion picture was not submitted to the Copyright Office on celluloid film, but rather as a series of positive photographic prints.