Thomas J. Geraghty

Born: 1883-04-10 in Rushville - Indiana - USA

Died: 1945-06-05

Known For: Writing

Biography

Born and raised in Indiana, Thomas Geraghty left for New York after graduating school and got a job as a reporter for the New York Herald and later the New York Tribune. His entrance into the film business was as a publicist, and he later became a writer for the one-reel comedies of Sidney Drew. In Los Angeles he got a job as a writer for Douglas Fairbanks, and was sent to New York by Famous Players-Lasky when it opened a studio there. He ran the studio for several years, then was sent to London to run the studio there, before returning to the US in 1922. He turned out screenplays for various studios throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including the highly regarded 'Wings of the Morning' (1937).

Filmography

1935

So You Won't Talk ... (Story)
No Limit ... (Screenplay)
Mr. What's-His-Name? ... (Script)

1934

The Church Mouse ... (Writer)

1933

Elmer, the Great ... (Screenplay)
Samarang ... (Scenario Writer)

1932

Mr. Robinson Crusoe ... (Adaptation)
The Iceless Arctic ... (Writer)

1929

Footlights and Fools ... (Writer)
Synthetic Sin ... (Writer)
Tanned Legs ... (Adaptation)
Smiling Irish Eyes ... (Screenplay)

1928

Wife Savers ... (Scenario Writer)
Harold Teen ... (Writer)
Waterfront ... (Writer)
Beau Sabreur ... (Writer)
The Big Noise ... (Adaptation)
Mad Hour ... (Writer)

1927

Now We're in the Air ... (Writer)
Fireman, Save My Child ... (Writer)

1926

The New Klondike ... (Writer)
It's the Old Army Game ... (Scenario Writer)

1925

Sackcloth and Scarlet ... (Writer)
Old Home Week ... (Writer)
The End of the World ... (Adaptation)
Wild, Wild Susan ... (Scenario Writer)
Irish Luck ... (Screenplay)
The Sporting Venus ... (Writer)
The Man Who Found Himself ... (Co-Writer)
The End of the World ... (Adaptation)

1924

Pied Piper Malone ... (Screenplay)

1923

The Leopardess ... (Editor)
Hollywood ... (Writer)
Woman-Proof ... (Writer)

1922

Love's Boomerang ... (Assistant Director)
The Isle of Love ... (Writer)

1921

The Charm School ... (Scenario Writer)

1920

Burglar Proof ... (Writer)
The Mollycoddle ... (Screenplay)
Always Audacious ... (Writer)
You Never Can Tell ... (Writer)
An Adventuress ... (Writer)

1919

In for Thirty Days ... (Scenario Writer)
A Heart in Pawn ... (Scenario Writer)
Diane of the Green Van ... (Writer)
In Old Kentucky ... (Writer)
When the Clouds Roll By as Himself
The Courageous Coward ... (Story)
Too Much Johnson ... (Scenario Writer)
A Man's Fight ... (Screenplay)

1918

Her Inspiration ... (Writer)
Social Ambition ... (Scenario Writer)
The Turn of a Card ... (Writer)

1917

Those Without Sin ... (Scenario Writer)
A Man's Man ... (Writer)
The American Consul ... (Writer)