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
- Double Door ... (Screenplay)
- It's a Gift ... (Screenplay)
- Wagon Wheels ... (Screenplay)
- The Last Round-up ... (Writer)
- The Old-Fashioned Way ... (Screenplay)
1933
- Buffalo Stampede ... (Adaptation)
- Man of the Forest ... (Screenplay)
- To the Last Man ... (Screenplay)
- Sunset Pass ... (Adaptation)
- Terror Trail ... (Adaptation)
- Under the Tonto Rim ... (Adaptation)
- Silent Men ... (Scenario Writer)
1932
- The Rider of Death Valley ... (Writer)
- Flaming Guns ... (Writer)
- The Texas Bad Man ... (Story)
- The Fourth Horseman ... (Adaptation)
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 Covered Wagon ... (Adaptation)
- The Light That Failed ... (Adaptation)
- The Heart Raider ... (Adaptation)
- The Tiger's Claw ... (Screenplay)
- A Gentleman of Leisure ... (Writer)
- Homeward Bound ... (Scenario Writer)
1922
- The Ghost Breaker ... (Adaptation)
- A Trip to Paramountown ... (Director)
- Beyond the Rocks ... (Screenplay)
1921
- A Wife's Awakening ... (Story)
- The Call of the North ... (Writer)
- The Rowdy ... (Scenario Writer)
- Double Adventure ... (Writer)
- Where Lights Are Low ... (Writer)
1920
- Live Sparks ... (Writer)
- $30,000 ... (Writer)
- Big Happiness ... (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)
- Playthings of Passion ... (Scenario Writer)
- The World Aflame ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Joyous Liar ... (Screenplay)
- The Midnight Stage ... (Screenplay)
- All Wrong ... (Writer)
- It Happened in Paris ... (Writer)
- Todd of the Times ... (Story)
1918
- Real Folks ... (Writer)
- Two-Gun Betty ... (Writer)
- The Bells ... (Screenplay)
- Hands Up ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Ghost of the Rancho ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Goddess of Lost Lake ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Shoes That Danced ... (Writer)
- A Law Unto Herself ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Heart of Rachael ... (Writer)
- Limousine Life ... (Writer)
- Border Raiders ... (Story)
- The Narrow Path ... (Writer)
1917
- Wild Sumac ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Medicine Man ... (Story)
- The Stainless Barrier ... (Scenario Writer)
- His Fatal Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Wrong Man ... (Scenario Writer)
- A Stormy Knight ... (Story)
- Uneasy Money ... (Writer)
- The Diamonds of Destiny ... (Scenario Writer)
- Her Strange Experience ... (Scenario Writer)
1914
- The Raiders ... (Scenario Writer)
- In the Fall of '64 ... (Scenario Writer)