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