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)
- The Old-Fashioned Way ... (Screenplay)
- Double Door ... (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)
- Sunset Pass ... (Adaptation)
- Silent Men ... (Scenario Writer)
- Terror Trail ... (Adaptation)
1932
- The Fourth Horseman ... (Adaptation)
- The Texas Bad Man ... (Story)
- The Rider of Death Valley ... (Writer)
- 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)
- West of Broadway ... (Scenario Writer)
- Rocking Moon ... (Adaptation)
1925
- Contraband ... (Writer)
- Don Q Son of Zorro ... (Writer)
- Just a Woman ... (Writer)
1924
- The Man Who Fights Alone ... (Writer)
1923
- The Light That Failed ... (Adaptation)
- The Covered Wagon ... (Adaptation)
- The Tiger's Claw ... (Screenplay)
- A Gentleman of Leisure ... (Writer)
- The Heart Raider ... (Adaptation)
- Homeward Bound ... (Scenario Writer)
1922
- The Ghost Breaker ... (Adaptation)
- Beyond the Rocks ... (Screenplay)
- A Trip to Paramountown ... (Director)
1921
- The Call of the North ... (Writer)
- A Wife's Awakening ... (Story)
- Where Lights Are Low ... (Writer)
- Double Adventure ... (Writer)
- The Rowdy ... (Scenario Writer)
1920
- Live Sparks ... (Writer)
- Big Happiness ... (Writer)
- $30,000 ... (Writer)
- The Tiger's Coat ... (Screenplay)
- The Devil to Pay ... (Writer)
- The Adventures of Daredevil Jack ... (Story)
- The House of Whispers ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Dream Cheater ... (Screenplay)
- The Green Flame ... (Scenario Writer)
1919
- Adele ... (Writer)
- The Silver Girl ... (Screenplay)
- The Joyous Liar ... (Screenplay)
- The World Aflame ... (Scenario Writer)
- Playthings of Passion ... (Scenario Writer)
- It Happened in Paris ... (Writer)
- All Wrong ... (Writer)
- Todd of the Times ... (Story)
- The Midnight Stage ... (Screenplay)
1918
- Real Folks ... (Writer)
- The Ghost of the Rancho ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Bells ... (Screenplay)
- The Goddess of Lost Lake ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Shoes That Danced ... (Writer)
- Two-Gun Betty ... (Writer)
- A Law Unto Herself ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Heart of Rachael ... (Writer)
- Limousine Life ... (Writer)
- Hands Up ... (Scenario Writer)
- Border Raiders ... (Story)
- The Narrow Path ... (Writer)
1917
- Wild Sumac ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Stainless Barrier ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Diamonds of Destiny ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Medicine Man ... (Story)
- A Stormy Knight ... (Story)
- The Wrong Man ... (Scenario Writer)
- His Fatal Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- Uneasy Money ... (Writer)
- Her Strange Experience ... (Scenario Writer)
1914
- The Raiders ... (Scenario Writer)
- In the Fall of '64 ... (Scenario Writer)