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Jack Cunningham

Date of birth
Apr 1, 1882
Date of death
Oct 4, 1941(aged 59)
Place of birth

Jack Cunningham

Biography of Jack Cunningham:

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).

Jack Cunningham has directed:

A Trip to Paramountown(1922)

Additional credits for Jack Cunningham:

Union Pacific(1939)(Adaptation)
Painted Desert(1938)(Story)
Professor Beware(1938)(Writer)
Easy to Take(1936)(Producer)
Mississippi(1935)(Screenplay)
It's a Gift(1934)(Screenplay)
Wagon Wheels(1934)(Screenplay)
The Old-Fashioned Way(1934)(Screenplay)
Double Door(1934)(Screenplay)
The Last Round-up(1934)(Writer)
To the Last Man(1933)(Screenplay)
Man of the Forest(1933)(Screenplay)
Sunset Pass(1933)(Adaptation)
Under the Tonto Rim(1933)(Adaptation)
Silent Men(1933)(Scenario Writer)
Buffalo Stampede(1933)(Adaptation)
Terror Trail(1933)(Adaptation)
Flaming Guns(1932)(Writer)
The Fourth Horseman(1932)(Adaptation)
The Texas Bad Man(1932)(Story)
The Rider of Death Valley(1932)(Writer)
The Deceiver(1931)(Writer)
The Guilty Generation(1931)(Adaptation)
Shanghaied Love(1931)(Screenplay)
Clearing the Range(1931)(Story)
The Viking(1928)(Screenplay)
The Adventurer(1928)(Writer)
Captain Salvation(1927)(Writer)
West of Broadway(1926)(Scenario Writer)
The Black Pirate(1926)(Adaptation)
Rocking Moon(1926)(Adaptation)
Don Q Son of Zorro(1925)(Writer)
Just a Woman(1925)(Writer)
Contraband(1925)(Writer)
The Man Who Fights Alone(1924)(Writer)
The Light That Failed(1923)(Adaptation)
Homeward Bound(1923)(Scenario Writer)
A Gentleman of Leisure(1923)(Writer)
The Heart Raider(1923)(Adaptation)
The Tiger's Claw(1923)(Screenplay)
The Covered Wagon(1923)(Adaptation)
The Ghost Breaker(1922)(Adaptation)
A Trip to Paramountown(1922)(Writer)
Beyond the Rocks(1922)(Screenplay)
The Call of the North(1921)(Writer)
A Wife's Awakening(1921)(Story)
The Rowdy(1921)(Scenario Writer)
Where Lights Are Low(1921)(Writer)
Double Adventure(1921)(Writer)
The Devil to Pay(1920)(Writer)
The Tiger's Coat(1920)(Screenplay)
The House of Whispers(1920)(Scenario Writer)
Big Happiness(1920)(Writer)
The Green Flame(1920)(Scenario Writer)
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack(1920)(Story)
The Dream Cheater(1920)(Screenplay)
$30,000(1920)(Writer)
Live Sparks(1920)(Writer)
It Happened in Paris(1919)(Writer)
The Joyous Liar(1919)(Screenplay)
The World Aflame(1919)(Scenario Writer)
Playthings of Passion(1919)(Scenario Writer)
All Wrong(1919)(Writer)
The Silver Girl(1919)(Screenplay)
Todd of the Times(1919)(Story)
Adele(1919)(Writer)
The Midnight Stage(1919)(Screenplay)
Two-Gun Betty(1918)(Writer)
The Narrow Path(1918)(Writer)
The Goddess of Lost Lake(1918)(Scenario Writer)
Border Raiders(1918)(Story)
The Heart of Rachael(1918)(Writer)
The Bells(1918)(Screenplay)
A Law Unto Herself(1918)(Scenario Writer)
Hands Up(1918)(Scenario Writer)
The Ghost of the Rancho(1918)(Scenario Writer)
The Shoes That Danced(1918)(Writer)
Real Folks(1918)(Writer)
Limousine Life(1918)(Writer)
The Medicine Man(1917)(Story)
The Stainless Barrier(1917)(Scenario Writer)
Wild Sumac(1917)(Scenario Writer)
A Stormy Knight(1917)(Story)
The Wrong Man(1917)(Scenario Writer)
His Fatal Beauty(1917)(Scenario Writer)
Her Strange Experience(1917)(Scenario Writer)
Uneasy Money(1917)(Writer)
The Diamonds of Destiny(1917)(Scenario Writer)
The Raiders(1914)(Scenario Writer)
In the Fall of '64(1914)(Scenario Writer)

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