Jack Cunningham
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1882-04-01
Day of Death
1941-10-04 (59 years old)
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 stroke he suffered while working on the film Union Pacific (1939).
Crew
(1939)
Union Pacific
Adaptation
(1938)
Professor Beware
Writer
(1938)
Painted Desert
Story
(1936)
Easy to Take
Producer
(1935)
Mississippi
Screenplay
(1934)
Wagon Wheels
Screenplay
(1934)
Double Door
Screenplay
(1934)
The Last Round-up
Writer
(1934)
The Old-Fashioned Way
Screenplay
(1934)
It's a Gift
Screenplay
(1933)
Buffalo Stampede
Adaptation
(1933)
Man of the Forest
Screenplay
(1933)
To the Last Man
Screenplay
(1933)
Sunset Pass
Adaptation
(1933)
Terror Trail
Adaptation
(1933)
Silent Men
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
(1933)
Under the Tonto Rim
Adaptation
(1932)
(1932)
The Texas Bad Man
Story, Screenplay
(1932)
Flaming Guns
Writer
(1932)
The Fourth Horseman
Adaptation, Screenplay
(1931)
Clearing the Range
Story
(1931)
The Guilty Generation
Adaptation, Dialogue
(1931)
Shanghaied Love
Screenplay
(1931)
The Deceiver
Writer
(1928)
The Viking
Screenplay
(1928)
The Adventurer
Writer
(1927)
Captain Salvation
Writer
(1926)
The Black Pirate
Adaptation, Screenplay
(1926)
Rocking Moon
Adaptation
(1925)
Don Q Son of Zorro
Writer
(1924)
The Man Who Fights Alone
Writer
(1923)
A Gentleman of Leisure
Writer
(1923)
The Covered Wagon
Adaptation, Screenplay
(1923)
The Light That Failed
Adaptation, Screenplay
(1923)
The Heart Raider
Adaptation, Screenplay
(1923)
The Tiger's Claw
Screenplay, Story
(1923)
Homeward Bound
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
(1922)
A Trip to Paramountown
Director, Writer
(1922)
Beyond the Rocks
Screenplay
(1921)
The Call of the North
Writer
(1921)
The Rowdy
Scenario Writer
(1921)
Where Lights Are Low
Writer
(1921)
Double Adventure
Writer
(1920)
The Green Flame
Scenario Writer
(1920)
The House of Whispers
Scenario Writer
(1920)
(1920)
The Devil to Pay
Writer
(1920)
The Dream Cheater
Screenplay
(1920)
The Tiger's Coat
Screenplay
(1920)
$30,000
Writer
(1919)
All Wrong
Writer
(1919)
The World Aflame
Scenario Writer
(1919)
Playthings of Passion
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
(1919)
Todd of the Times
Story, Screenplay
(1919)
Adele
Writer
(1919)
It Happened in Paris
Writer
(1919)
The Midnight Stage
Screenplay
(1919)
The Silver Girl
Screenplay
(1918)
Limousine Life
Writer
(1918)
A Law Unto Herself
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
(1918)
The Goddess of Lost Lake
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
(1918)
The Bells
Screenplay
(1918)
Hands Up
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
(1918)
The Narrow Path
Writer
(1918)
The Heart of Rachael
Writer
(1918)
Border Raiders
Story
(1917)
The Wrong Man
Scenario Writer
(1917)
A Stormy Knight
Story
(1917)
Uneasy Money
Writer
(1914)
In the Fall of '64
Scenario Writer