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
- Professor Beware ... (Writer)
- Painted Desert ... (Story)
1936
- Easy to Take ... (Producer)
1935
- Mississippi ... (Screenplay)
1934
- It's a Gift ... (Screenplay)
- Double Door ... (Screenplay)
- The Old-Fashioned Way ... (Screenplay)
- The Last Round-up ... (Writer)
- Wagon Wheels ... (Screenplay)
1933
- Buffalo Stampede ... (Adaptation)
- To the Last Man ... (Screenplay)
- Man of the Forest ... (Screenplay)
- Under the Tonto Rim ... (Adaptation)
- Silent Men ... (Scenario Writer)
- Sunset Pass ... (Adaptation)
- Terror Trail ... (Adaptation)
1932
- The Rider of Death Valley ... (Writer)
- The Fourth Horseman ... (Adaptation)
- The Texas Bad Man ... (Story)
- Flaming Guns ... (Writer)
1931
- Clearing the Range ... (Story)
- The Guilty Generation ... (Adaptation)
- The Deceiver ... (Writer)
- Shanghaied Love ... (Screenplay)
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)
- Contraband ... (Writer)
- Just a Woman ... (Writer)
1924
- The Man Who Fights Alone ... (Writer)
1923
- The Covered Wagon ... (Adaptation)
- The Tiger's Claw ... (Story)
- The Light That Failed ... (Adaptation)
- The Heart Raider ... (Adaptation)
- A Gentleman of Leisure ... (Writer)
- Homeward Bound ... (Scenario Writer)
1922
- Beyond the Rocks ... (Screenplay)
- A Trip to Paramountown ... (Writer)
- The Ghost Breaker ... (Adaptation)
1921
- The Call of the North ... (Writer)
- A Wife's Awakening ... (Story)
- Double Adventure ... (Writer)
- Where Lights Are Low ... (Writer)
- The Rowdy ... (Scenario Writer)
1920
- Big Happiness ... (Writer)
- Live Sparks ... (Writer)
- $30,000 ... (Writer)
- The Tiger's Coat ... (Screenplay)
- The House of Whispers ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Adventures of Daredevil Jack ... (Story)
- The Dream Cheater ... (Screenplay)
- The Devil to Pay ... (Writer)
- The Green Flame ... (Scenario Writer)
1919
- The Silver Girl ... (Screenplay)
- Adele ... (Writer)
- Playthings of Passion ... (Scenario Writer)
- All Wrong ... (Writer)
- It Happened in Paris ... (Writer)
- The Joyous Liar ... (Screenplay)
- The Midnight Stage ... (Screenplay)
- The World Aflame ... (Scenario Writer)
- Todd of the Times ... (Story)
1918
- Real Folks ... (Writer)
- The Bells ... (Screenplay)
- Two-Gun Betty ... (Writer)
- The Shoes That Danced ... (Writer)
- The Goddess of Lost Lake ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Heart of Rachael ... (Writer)
- A Law Unto Herself ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Ghost of the Rancho ... (Scenario Writer)
- Hands Up ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Narrow Path ... (Writer)
- Limousine Life ... (Writer)
- Border Raiders ... (Story)
1917
- Wild Sumac ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Stainless Barrier ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Medicine Man ... (Story)
- A Stormy Knight ... (Story)
- The Diamonds of Destiny ... (Scenario Writer)
- His Fatal Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- Uneasy Money ... (Writer)
- The Wrong Man ... (Scenario Writer)
- Her Strange Experience ... (Scenario Writer)
1914
- The Raiders ... (Scenario Writer)
- In the Fall of '64 ... (Scenario Writer)