Jack Cunningham

from 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).

Timeline

1939Aged 57

  • Poster for Union Pacific

    Adaptation

1938Aged 56

  • Poster for Professor Beware

    Writer

  • Poster for Painted Desert

    Story

1936Aged 54

  • Poster for Easy to Take

    Producer

1935Aged 53

  • Poster for Mississippi

    Screenplay

1934Aged 52

  • Poster for The Last Round-up

    Writer

  • Poster for Double Door

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Old-Fashioned Way

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Wagon Wheels

    Screenplay

  • Poster for It's a Gift

    Screenplay

1933Aged 51

  • Poster for Terror Trail

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Buffalo Stampede

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Silent Men

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Under the Tonto Rim

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Sunset Pass

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Man of the Forest

    Screenplay

  • Poster for To the Last Man

    Screenplay

1932Aged 50

  • Poster for The Rider of Death Valley

    Writer

  • Poster for The Texas Bad Man

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Fourth Horseman

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Flaming Guns

    Writer

1931Aged 49

  • Poster for Clearing the Range

    Story

  • Poster for Shanghaied Love

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Guilty Generation

    Dialogue

  • Poster for The Deceiver

    Writer

1928Aged 46

  • Poster for The Adventurer

    Writer

  • Poster for The Viking

    Screenplay

1927Aged 45

  • Poster for Captain Salvation

    Writer

1926Aged 44

  • Poster for Rocking Moon

    Adaptation

  • Poster for The Black Pirate

    Screenplay

  • Poster for West of Broadway

    Scenario Writer

1925Aged 43

  • Poster for Contraband

    Writer

  • Poster for Just a Woman

    Writer

  • Poster for Don Q Son of Zorro

    Writer

1924Aged 42

  • Poster for The Man Who Fights Alone

    Writer

1923Aged 41

1922Aged 40

  • Poster for Beyond the Rocks

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Trip to Paramountown

    Writer

  • Poster for The Ghost Breaker

    Adaptation

1921Aged 39

1920Aged 38

  • Poster for Live Sparks

    Writer

  • Poster for $30,000

    Writer

  • Poster for The Dream Cheater

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    Story

  • Poster for The Green Flame

    Scenario Writer

  • Poster for Big Happiness

    Writer

  • Poster for The House of Whispers

    Scenario Writer

  • Poster for The Tiger's Coat

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Devil to Pay

    Writer

1919Aged 37

  • Poster for The Midnight Stage

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Adele

    Writer

  • Poster for Todd of the Times

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Silver Girl

    Screenplay

  • Poster for All Wrong

    Writer

  • Poster for Playthings of Passion

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The World Aflame

    Scenario Writer

  • Poster for The Joyous Liar

    Story

  • Poster for It Happened in Paris

    Writer

1918Aged 36

  • Poster for Limousine Life

    Writer

  • Poster for Real Folks

    Writer

  • Poster for The Shoes That Danced

    Writer

  • Poster for The Ghost of the Rancho

    Scenario Writer

  • Poster for Hands Up

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Law Unto Herself

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Bells

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Heart of Rachael

    Writer

  • Poster for Border Raiders

    Story

  • Poster for The Goddess of Lost Lake

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Narrow Path

    Writer

  • Poster for Two-Gun Betty

    Writer

1917Aged 35

1914Aged 32

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