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
  • Beyond the Rocks
  • The Black Pirate
  • Union Pacific
  • To the Last Man
  • The Old Fashioned Way
  • The Covered Wagon
  • The Iron Mask
  • Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • White Shadows in the South Seas
  • Man of the Forest
  • Don Q Son of Zorro
  • Wagon Wheels
  • The Thundering Herd
  • Murder at the Vanities
  • Clearing the Range
  • The Last Round-Up

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
1934
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
1923
The Tiger's Claw · as Screenplay
1922
Beyond the Rocks · as Screenplay
1921
1920
The Tiger's Coat · as Screenplay

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