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

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

1934

The Church Mouse ... (Writer)

1933

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

1932

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

1929

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

1928

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

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

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

1924

Pied Piper Malone ... (Screenplay)

1923

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

1922

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

1921

The Charm School ... (Scenario Writer)

1920

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

1919

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

1918

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

1917

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