Writing
Jack Cunningham
EN, FR, NL, XX cinema · 90 credits
Born
1 April 1882
Died
4 October 1941 (aged 59)
Birthplace
Ionia, Iowa
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
Adaptation
Easy to Take
Producer
Mississippi
Screenplay
Wagon Wheels
Screenplay
Double Door
Screenplay
The Old-Fashioned Way
Screenplay
It's a Gift
Screenplay
Buffalo Stampede
Adaptation
Man of the Forest
Screenplay
To the Last Man
Screenplay
Sunset Pass
Adaptation
Terror Trail
Adaptation
Silent Men
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Under the Tonto Rim
Adaptation
The Texas Bad Man
Story, Screenplay
Flaming Guns
Writer
The Fourth Horseman
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Guilty Generation
Adaptation, Dialogue
Shanghaied Love
Screenplay
The Deceiver
Writer
The Viking
Screenplay
The Black Pirate
Adaptation, Screenplay
Rocking Moon
Adaptation
West of Broadway
Scenario Writer
Just a Woman
Writer
Contraband
Writer
The Covered Wagon
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Light That Failed
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Heart Raider
Adaptation, Screenplay
The Tiger's Claw
Story, Screenplay
Homeward Bound
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
A Trip to Paramountown
Writer, Director
Beyond the Rocks
Screenplay
The Ghost Breaker
Adaptation
The Rowdy
Scenario Writer
The House of Whispers
Scenario Writer
The Green Flame
Scenario Writer
The Dream Cheater
Screenplay
The Tiger's Coat
Screenplay
$30,000
Writer
Live Sparks
Writer
All Wrong
Writer
The World Aflame
Scenario Writer
Playthings of Passion
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Todd of the Times
Story, Screenplay
Adele
Writer
The Midnight Stage
Screenplay
The Silver Girl
Screenplay
The Joyous Liar
Screenplay, Story
The Goddess of Lost Lake
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
A Law Unto Herself
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Bells
Screenplay
Hands Up
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Ghost of the Rancho
Scenario Writer
The Wrong Man
1917
The Wrong Man
Scenario Writer
His Fatal Beauty
1917
His Fatal Beauty
Scenario Writer
Her Strange Experience
1917
Her Strange Experience
Scenario Writer
Wild Sumac
Scenario Writer
The Stainless Barrier
Scenario Writer
In the Fall of '64
1914
In the Fall of '64
Scenario Writer
The Raiders
1914
The Raiders
Scenario Writer