Jack Cunningham (April 1, 1882 – October 4, 1941) was an American
screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
. He wrote for more than 130 films between 1913 and 1939. He was born in
Ionia, Iowa, and died from a
cerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both. An ICH is a type of bleeding within the skull and one kind of stro ...
in
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...
.
Selected filmography
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The Stainless Barrier
''The Stainless Barrier'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Irene Hunt, Jack Livingston and Henry A. Barrows.Lowe p.97
Cast
* Irene Hunt as Betsy Shelton
* Jack Livingston as Calvin Stone
* He ...
'' (1917)
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The Medicine Man'' (1917)
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A Stormy Knight
''A Stormy Knight'' is a 1917 American silent comedy mystery film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Franklyn Farnum, Jean Hersholt and Agnes Vernon.Connelly p.416
Cast
* Franklyn Farnum as John Winton
* Jean Hersholt as Dr. Fraser
* Agne ...
'' (1917)
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The Wrong Man
''The Wrong Man'' is a 1956 American docudrama film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book ''The True S ...
'' (1917)
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Limousine Life'' (1918)
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A Law Unto Herself
''A Law Unto Herself'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Louise Glaum, Sam De Grasse and Joseph J. Dowling.
Cast
* Louise Glaum as Alouette DeLarme
* Sam De Grasse as Kurt Von Klassner
* Joseph J. ...
'' (1918)
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Hands Up!'' (1918)
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The Bells'' (1918)
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The Border Raiders
''The Border Raiders'' is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Betty Compson and George Larkin. It was shot on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Mock Sing (Deshon) runs ...
'' (1918)
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A Burglar for a Night
''A Burglar for a Night'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson and William Elmer.
Cast
* J. Warren Kerrigan as Kirk Marden
* Lois Wilson as Janet Leslie
* William El ...
'' (1918)
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The Narrow Path'' (1918)
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The Goddess of Lost Lake
''The Goddess of Lost Lake'' is a 1918 American silent era drama film starring Louise Glaum, Lawson Butt, and Hayward Mack.
Directed by Wallace Worsley and produced by Louise Glaum and Robert Bunton through her production company, the Louise ...
'' (1918)
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The Ghost of the Rancho'' (1918)
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Little Red Decides'' (1918)
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All Wrong'' (1919)
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The False Code'' (1919)
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The Joyous Liar'' (1919)
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Todd of the Times
''Todd of the Times'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Eliot Howe and starring Frank Keenan, Charles A. Post, and Aggie Herring
Agnes Herring (February 4, 1876 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress. She ...
'' (1919)
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Daredevil Jack'' (1920)
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The Dream Cheater'' (1920)
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The House of Whispers'' (1920)
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$30,000
''$30,000'' is a 1920 American silent mystery film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Fritzi Brunette and Carl Stockdale.
Plot
When Sydney Lloyd pawns a necklace to pay his gambling debts, his sister turns to a stru ...
'' (1920)
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Number 99'' (1920)
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Live Sparks
''Live Sparks'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Mae Talbot, and Roy Laidlaw.Katchmer p.440
Plot
Cast
* J. Warren Kerrigan as Neil Sparks
* Mae Talbot as Aunt Helen
* Ro ...
'' (1920)
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The Green Flame'' (1920)
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The Devil to Pay'' (1920)
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Double Adventure'' (1921)
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A Wife's Awakening'' (1921)
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The Rowdy'' (1921)
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Where Lights Are Low'' (1921)
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The Avenging Arrow'' (1921)
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Beyond the Rocks'' (1922)
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A Trip to Paramountown'' (1922, short)
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The Covered Wagon
''The Covered Wagon'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent Epic film, epic Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers tr ...
'' (1923)
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A Gentleman of Leisure'' (1923)
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Homeward Bound'' (1923)
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The Light That Failed
''The Light That Failed'' is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events through ...
'' (1923)
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The Man Who Fights Alone'' (1924)
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Just a Woman'' (1925)
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The Black Pirate
''The Black Pirate'' is a 1926 American silent action adventure film shot entirely in two-color Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates. Directed by Albert Parker, it stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, ...
'' (1926)
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The Adventurer'' (1928)
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The Viking'' (1928)
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The Iron Mask
''The Iron Mask'' is a 1929 American part-talkie adventure film directed by Allan Dwan. In addition to some sequences with dialogue, the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects and a theme song.
The film is an adaptatio ...
'' (1929)
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The Guilty Generation'' (1931)
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The Deceiver'' (1931)
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The Rider of Death Valley'' (1932)
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The Texas Bad Man'' (1932)
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The Fourth Horseman'' (1932)
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Flaming Guns'' (1932)
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Terror Trail'' (1933)
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The Thundering Herd'' (1933)
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Under the Tonto Rim'' (1933)
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To the Last Man'' (1933)
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It's a Gift
''It's a Gift'' is a 1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields. It was Fields's 16th sound film and his fifth in 1934 alone.
The film concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocer as he battles a shrewish wife, an incompetent assista ...
'' (1934)
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Mississippi
Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...
'' (1935)
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Painted Desert'' (1938)
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Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, ...
'' (1939)
References
External links
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Jack Cunningham papers, 1922 - 1939 held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division,
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, in the Lincoln Center complex on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Situated between the Metropolitan O ...
1882 births
1941 deaths
American male screenwriters
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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