Jack Cunningham

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1882-04-01 (59 years old)

Deathday

1941-10-04

Place of Birth

Ionia, Iowa

Jack Cunningham

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 str...

Production

1919

All Wrong

as Writer

1920

The House of Whispers

as Scenario Writer

1919

The World Aflame

as Scenario Writer

1920

The Green Flame

as Scenario Writer

1917

The Wrong Man

as Scenario Writer

1938

1931

1934

Wagon Wheels

as Screenplay

1933

Buffalo Stampede

as Adaptation

1918

1933

Man of the Forest

as Screenplay

1934

Double Door

as Screenplay

1933

To the Last Man

as Screenplay

1934

1927

1933

Sunset Pass

as Adaptation

1914

In the Fall of '64

as Scenario Writer

1928

The Viking

as Screenplay

1932

1933

Terror Trail

as Adaptation

1932

The Texas Bad Man

as Screenplay

1923

The Covered Wagon

as Adaptation

1932

Flaming Guns

as Writer

1933

Silent Men

as Scenario Writer

1919

Playthings of Passion

as Scenario Writer

1928

1926

The Black Pirate

as Adaptation

1926

Rocking Moon

as Adaptation

1919

1919

Todd of the Times

as Screenplay

1931

1918

The Goddess of Lost Lake

as Scenario Writer

1918

A Law Unto Herself

as Scenario Writer

1919

Adele

as Writer

1934

1932

The Fourth Horseman

as Adaptation

1933

Under the Tonto Rim

as Adaptation

1921

The Rowdy

as Scenario Writer

1922

1918

The Bells

as Screenplay

1931

Shanghaied Love

as Screenplay

1931

1925

1939

Union Pacific

as Adaptation

1923

1918

Hands Up

as Scenario Writer

1917

1923

The Heart Raider

as Adaptation

1920

1918

1919

The Midnight Stage

as Screenplay

1934

It's a Gift

as Screenplay

1920

The Dream Cheater

as Screenplay

1918

1923

1923

The Tiger's Claw

as Screenplay

1919

The Silver Girl

as Screenplay

1936

Easy to Take

as Producer

1938

1923

Homeward Bound

as Scenario Writer

1920

The Tiger's Coat

as Screenplay

1923

The Heart Raider

as Screenplay

1918

1923

The Covered Wagon

as Screenplay

1933

Silent Men

as Screenplay

1918

A Law Unto Herself

as Screenplay

1923

Homeward Bound

as Screenplay

1932

The Fourth Horseman

as Screenplay

1919

1923

1918

Hands Up

as Screenplay

1922

Beyond the Rocks

as Screenplay

1926

The Black Pirate

as Screenplay

1921

1935

Mississippi

as Screenplay

1917

Uneasy Money

as Writer

1931

The Deceiver

as Writer

1920

$30,000

as Writer

1917

His Fatal Beauty

as Scenario Writer

1917

Her Strange Experience

as Scenario Writer

1917

The Diamonds of Destiny

as Scenario Writer

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