Jack Cunningham

Born: 1882-04-01 in Ionia, Iowa

Died: 1941-10-04

Known For: Writing

Biography

Date of Death 4 October1941, Santa Monica, California (cerebral hemorrhage) One the more prolific and fast working screenwriters in Hollywood. He once completed ten five-reel films in ten-weeks. Between 1918 and 1925 he turned out one hundred full-length films. Had been the editor of The Pittsburgh Leader and The New York Evening Sun. Was working for the publicity department of an Eastern US film company when he decided to try his hand at scenario writing. His father, Maurice Frederick Cunningham (c.1861-1937), was a building contractor who had built many of the Hollywood studios constructed in the early 1920s. Never recovered from a stroke he suffered while working on the film Union Pacific (1939).

Filmography

1939

Union Pacific ... (Adaptation)

1938

Painted Desert ... (Story)
Professor Beware ... (Writer)

1936

Easy to Take ... (Producer)

1935

Mississippi ... (Screenplay)

1934

Double Door ... (Screenplay)
Wagon Wheels ... (Screenplay)
It's a Gift ... (Screenplay)
The Old-Fashioned Way ... (Screenplay)
The Last Round-up ... (Writer)

1933

Silent Men ... (Scenario Writer)
To the Last Man ... (Screenplay)
Sunset Pass ... (Adaptation)
Under the Tonto Rim ... (Adaptation)
Buffalo Stampede ... (Adaptation)
Terror Trail ... (Adaptation)
Man of the Forest ... (Screenplay)

1932

Flaming Guns ... (Writer)
The Fourth Horseman ... (Adaptation)
The Rider of Death Valley ... (Writer)
The Texas Bad Man ... (Story)

1931

Shanghaied Love ... (Screenplay)
The Deceiver ... (Writer)
The Guilty Generation ... (Adaptation)
Clearing the Range ... (Story)

1928

The Viking ... (Screenplay)
The Adventurer ... (Writer)

1927

Captain Salvation ... (Writer)

1926

The Black Pirate ... (Adaptation)
Rocking Moon ... (Adaptation)
West of Broadway ... (Scenario Writer)

1925

Don Q Son of Zorro ... (Writer)
Just a Woman ... (Writer)
Contraband ... (Writer)

1924

The Man Who Fights Alone ... (Writer)

1923

Homeward Bound ... (Scenario Writer)
The Covered Wagon ... (Adaptation)
The Tiger's Claw ... (Story)
The Heart Raider ... (Adaptation)
A Gentleman of Leisure ... (Writer)
The Light That Failed ... (Adaptation)

1922

The Ghost Breaker ... (Adaptation)
Beyond the Rocks ... (Screenplay)
A Trip to Paramountown ... (Writer)

1921

Double Adventure ... (Writer)
Where Lights Are Low ... (Writer)
The Rowdy ... (Scenario Writer)
The Call of the North ... (Writer)
A Wife's Awakening ... (Story)

1920

The Green Flame ... (Scenario Writer)
The House of Whispers ... (Scenario Writer)
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack ... (Story)
The Tiger's Coat ... (Screenplay)
The Dream Cheater ... (Screenplay)
Big Happiness ... (Writer)
Live Sparks ... (Writer)
The Devil to Pay ... (Writer)
$30,000 ... (Writer)

1919

All Wrong ... (Writer)
The World Aflame ... (Scenario Writer)
The Midnight Stage ... (Screenplay)
Playthings of Passion ... (Scenario Writer)
It Happened in Paris ... (Writer)
Adele ... (Writer)
The Silver Girl ... (Screenplay)
The Joyous Liar ... (Screenplay)
Todd of the Times ... (Story)

1918

Hands Up ... (Scenario Writer)
Border Raiders ... (Story)
The Goddess of Lost Lake ... (Scenario Writer)
The Bells ... (Screenplay)
Real Folks ... (Writer)
A Law Unto Herself ... (Scenario Writer)
Two-Gun Betty ... (Writer)
Limousine Life ... (Writer)
The Narrow Path ... (Writer)
The Ghost of the Rancho ... (Scenario Writer)
The Heart of Rachael ... (Writer)
The Shoes That Danced ... (Writer)

1917

The Wrong Man ... (Scenario Writer)
Wild Sumac ... (Scenario Writer)
The Stainless Barrier ... (Scenario Writer)
The Diamonds of Destiny ... (Scenario Writer)
His Fatal Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
The Medicine Man ... (Story)
Uneasy Money ... (Writer)
Her Strange Experience ... (Scenario Writer)
A Stormy Knight ... (Story)

1914

The Raiders ... (Scenario Writer)
In the Fall of '64 ... (Scenario Writer)