Jack Cunningham

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1882-04-01

Deathday 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).

Known For

Writer

1939
Union Pacific

as Adaptation

1938
1938
1935
Mississippi

as Screenplay

1934
Wagon Wheels

as Screenplay

1934
Double Door

as Screenplay

1934
1934
The Old-Fashioned Way

as Screenplay

1934
It's a Gift

as Screenplay

1933
The Thundering Herd

as Adaptation

1933
Man of the Forest

as Screenplay

1933
To the Last Man

as Screenplay

1933
Sunset Pass

as Adaptation

1933
Terror Trail

as Adaptation

1933
Silent Men

as Scenario Writer

1933
Under the Tonto Rim

as Adaptation

1933
Silent Men

as Screenplay

1932
1932
The Texas Bad Man

as Screenplay

1932
Flaming Guns

as Writer

1932
The Fourth Horseman

as Adaptation

1932
The Fourth Horseman

as Screenplay

1931
1931
The Guilty Generation

as Adaptation

1931
Shanghaied Love

as Screenplay

1931
1928
The Viking

as Screenplay

1928
The Adventurer

as Writer

1927
1926
The Black Pirate

as Adaptation

1926
Rocking Moon

as Adaptation

1926
The Black Pirate

as Screenplay

1925
1923
The Covered Wagon

as Adaptation

1923
The Light That Failed

as Adaptation

1923
The Heart Raider

as Adaptation

1923
The Tiger's Claw

as Screenplay

1923
1923
Homeward Bound

as Scenario Writer

1923
The Covered Wagon

as Screenplay

1923
The Heart Raider

as Screenplay

1923
The Light That Failed

as Screenplay

1923
Homeward Bound

as Screenplay

1922
Beyond the Rocks

as Screenplay

1921
1921
The Rowdy

as Scenario Writer

1921
1921
1920
The House of Whispers

as Scenario Writer

1920
The Green Flame

as Scenario Writer

1920
1920
The Dream Cheater

as Screenplay

1920
The Tiger's Coat

as Screenplay

1919
All Wrong

as Writer

1919
The World Aflame

as Scenario Writer

1919
Playthings of Passion

as Scenario Writer

1919
1919
Todd of the Times

as Screenplay

1919
Adele

as Writer

1919
1919
The Midnight Stage

as Screenplay

1919
The Silver Girl

as Screenplay

1919
Playthings of Passion

as Screenplay

1918
Limousine Life

as Writer

1918
The Goddess of Lost Lake

as Scenario Writer

1918
A Law Unto Herself

as Scenario Writer

1918
The Bells

as Screenplay

1918
Hands Up

as Scenario Writer

1918
The Narrow Path

as Writer

1918
1918
1918
1918
A Law Unto Herself

as Screenplay

1918
Hands Up

as Screenplay

1917
The Wrong Man

as Scenario Writer

1917
1917
Uneasy Money

as Writer

1914
In the Fall of '64

as Scenario Writer

Director

1922

Producer

1936
Easy to Take

as Producer