Jack Cunningham
Writing
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
Writing89
movieUnion Pacific
1939
Adaptation
movieMississippi
1935
Screenplay
movieIt's a Gift
1934
Screenplay
movieWagon Wheels
1934
Screenplay
movieThe Old-Fashioned Way
1934
Screenplay
movieDouble Door
1934
Screenplay
movieTo the Last Man
1933
Screenplay
movieMan of the Forest
1933
Screenplay
movieSunset Pass
1933
Adaptation
movieUnder the Tonto Rim
1933
Adaptation
movieSilent Men
1933
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
movieBuffalo Stampede
1933
Adaptation
movieTerror Trail
1933
Adaptation
movieFlaming Guns
1932
Writer
movieThe Fourth Horseman
1932
Adaptation, Screenplay
movieThe Texas Bad Man
1932
Story, Screenplay
movieThe Guilty Generation
1931
Adaptation, Dialogue
movieShanghaied Love
1931
Screenplay
movieThe Viking
1928
Screenplay
movieThe Adventurer
1928
Writer
movieWest of Broadway
1926
Scenario Writer
movieThe Black Pirate
1926
Adaptation, Screenplay
movieRocking Moon
1926
Adaptation
movieJust a Woman
1925
Writer
movieContraband
1925
Writer
movieThe Light That Failed
1923
Adaptation, Screenplay
movieHomeward Bound
1923
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
movieThe Heart Raider
1923
Adaptation, Screenplay
movieThe Tiger's Claw
1923
Story, Screenplay
movieThe Covered Wagon
1923
Adaptation, Screenplay
movieThe Ghost Breaker
1922
Adaptation
movieBeyond the Rocks
1922
Screenplay
movieThe Rowdy
1921
Scenario Writer
movieThe Tiger's Coat
1920
Screenplay
movieThe House of Whispers
1920
Scenario Writer
movieBig Happiness
1920
Writer
movieThe Green Flame
1920
Scenario Writer
movieThe Dream Cheater
1920
Screenplay
movie$30,000
1920
Writer
movieLive Sparks
1920
Writer
movieThe Joyous Liar
1919
Screenplay, Story
movieThe World Aflame
1919
Scenario Writer
moviePlaythings of Passion
1919
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
movieAll Wrong
1919
Writer
movieThe Silver Girl
1919
Screenplay
movieTodd of the Times
1919
Story, Screenplay
movieAdele
1919
Writer
movieThe Midnight Stage
1919
Screenplay
movieTwo-Gun Betty
1918
Writer
movieThe Narrow Path
1918
Writer
movieThe Goddess of Lost Lake
1918
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
movieThe Bells
1918
Screenplay
movieA Law Unto Herself
1918
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
movieHands Up
1918
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
movieThe Ghost of the Rancho
1918
Scenario Writer
movieReal Folks
1918
Writer
movieLimousine Life
1918
Writer
movieThe Stainless Barrier
1917
Scenario Writer
movieWild Sumac
1917
Scenario Writer
The Wrong Man
1917
Scenario Writer
His Fatal Beauty
1917
Scenario Writer
Her Strange Experience
1917
Scenario Writer
The Diamonds of Destiny
1917
Scenario Writer
The Raiders
1914
Scenario Writer
In the Fall of '64
1914
Scenario Writer
Directing1
movieA Trip to Paramountown
1922
Director
Production1
movieEasy to Take
1936
Producer