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)
Tanned Legs ... (Adaptation)
Synthetic Sin ... (Writer)
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

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

1926

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

1925

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

1924

Pied Piper Malone ... (Screenplay)

1923

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

1922

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

1921

The Charm School ... (Scenario Writer)

1920

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

1919

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

1918

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

1917

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