Jack Cunningham
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- April 1, 1882
- Died
- October 4, 1941 (aged 59)
- Birthplace
- Ionia, Iowa
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).
Known For
Filmography
Union Pacific
Movie · Adaptation
Professor Beware
Movie · Writer
Painted Desert
Movie · Story
Mississippi
Movie · Screenplay
Wagon Wheels
Movie · Screenplay
Double Door
Movie · Screenplay
The Last Round-up
Movie · Writer
The Old-Fashioned Way
Movie · Screenplay
It's a Gift
Movie · Screenplay
Buffalo Stampede
Movie · Adaptation
Man of the Forest
Movie · Screenplay
To the Last Man
Movie · Screenplay
Sunset Pass
Movie · Adaptation
Terror Trail
Movie · Adaptation
Silent Men
Movie · Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Under the Tonto Rim
Movie · Adaptation
The Rider of Death Valley
Movie · Writer
The Texas Bad Man
Movie · Story, Screenplay
Flaming Guns
Movie · Writer
The Fourth Horseman
Movie · Adaptation, Screenplay
Clearing the Range
Movie · Story
The Guilty Generation
Movie · Adaptation, Dialogue
Shanghaied Love
Movie · Screenplay
The Deceiver
Movie · Writer
The Viking
Movie · Screenplay
The Adventurer
Movie · Writer
Captain Salvation
Movie · Writer
The Black Pirate
Movie · Adaptation, Screenplay
Rocking Moon
Movie · Adaptation
West of Broadway
Movie · Scenario Writer
Don Q Son of Zorro
Movie · Writer
Just a Woman
Movie · Writer
Contraband
Movie · Writer
The Man Who Fights Alone
Movie · Writer
A Gentleman of Leisure
Movie · Writer
The Covered Wagon
Movie · Adaptation, Screenplay
The Light That Failed
Movie · Adaptation, Screenplay
The Heart Raider
Movie · Adaptation, Screenplay
The Tiger's Claw
Movie · Screenplay, Story
Homeward Bound
Movie · Scenario Writer, Screenplay
A Trip to Paramountown
Movie · Writer
Beyond the Rocks
Movie · Screenplay
The Ghost Breaker
Movie · Adaptation
The Call of the North
Movie · Writer
The Rowdy
Movie · Scenario Writer
Where Lights Are Low
Movie · Writer
Double Adventure
Movie · Writer
A Wife's Awakening
Movie · Story
The Green Flame
Movie · Scenario Writer
The House of Whispers
Movie · Scenario Writer
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Movie · Story
The Devil to Pay
Movie · Writer
The Dream Cheater
Movie · Screenplay
The Tiger's Coat
Movie · Screenplay
$30,000
Movie · Writer
Live Sparks
Movie · Writer
Big Happiness
Movie · Writer
All Wrong
Movie · Writer
The World Aflame
Movie · Scenario Writer
Playthings of Passion
Movie · Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Todd of the Times
Movie · Story, Screenplay
Adele
Movie · Writer
It Happened in Paris
Movie · Writer
The Midnight Stage
Movie · Screenplay
The Silver Girl
Movie · Screenplay
The Joyous Liar
Movie · Screenplay, Story
Limousine Life
Movie · Writer
A Law Unto Herself
Movie · Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Goddess of Lost Lake
Movie · Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Bells
Movie · Screenplay
Hands Up
Movie · Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Narrow Path
Movie · Writer
The Heart of Rachael
Movie · Writer
Border Raiders
Movie · Story
Two-Gun Betty
Movie · Writer
Real Folks
Movie · Writer
The Shoes That Danced
Movie · Writer
The Ghost of the Rancho
Movie · Scenario Writer
The Wrong Man
Movie · Scenario Writer
A Stormy Knight
Movie · Story
Uneasy Money
Movie · Writer
His Fatal Beauty
Movie · Scenario Writer
Her Strange Experience
Movie · Scenario Writer
The Diamonds of Destiny
Movie · Scenario Writer
Wild Sumac
Movie · Scenario Writer
The Stainless Barrier
Movie · Scenario Writer
The Medicine Man
Movie · Story
In the Fall of '64
Movie · Scenario Writer
The Raiders
Movie · Scenario Writer