JC

Jack Cunningham

Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born April 1, 1882Died October 4, 1941 (59 years)
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).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Black Pirate
  • To the Last Man
  • Wagon Wheels

Known For

  • It's a Gift
  • The Black Pirate
  • Beyond the Rocks
  • Union Pacific
  • The Covered Wagon
  • The Old Fashioned Way
  • The Iron Mask
  • To the Last Man
  • White Shadows in the South Seas
  • Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • Man of the Forest
  • Don Q Son of Zorro
  • Captain Salvation
  • The Thundering Herd
  • Murder at the Vanities
  • Clearing the Range
  • Wagon Wheels
  • Painted Desert

Jack Cunningham Filmography

1938
1935
Mississippi · as Screenplay
1934
It's a Gift · as Screenplay
1934
Wagon Wheels · as Screenplay
1934
The Old Fashioned Way · as Screenplay
1934
1934
Double Door · as Screenplay
1933
To the Last Man · as Screenplay
1933
Man of the Forest · as Screenplay
1932
1931
1929
1928
The Viking · as Screenplay
1927
1927
1925
1923
1922
Beyond the Rocks · as Screenplay
1921
1920
The Tiger's Coat · as Screenplay
1920

1936
1936
Too Many Parents · as Associate Producer

1939
Union Pacific · as Adaptation
1938
The Arkansas Traveler · as Original Story
1938
Painted Desert · as Story
1936
Poppy · as Contributor To Dialogue
1935
Man on the Flying Trapeze · as Contributor To Treatment
1933
The Thundering Herd · as Adaptation
1931
The Guilty Generation · as Adaptation
1931
Clearing the Range · as Story
1928
1926
The Black Pirate · as Adaptation
1923
The Light That Failed · as Adaptation
1923
The Heart Raider · as Adaptation
1923
The Tiger's Claw · as Story
1923
The Covered Wagon · as Adaptation

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