Jere Cunningham (born Jere Pearson Cunningham Jr.; 20 December 1943 – 23 January 2018) was an American novelist and screenwriter.
Works
Novels
* ''Hunter's Blood'' (1977)
* ''The Legacy'' (1977)
* ''The Visitor'' (1978)
* ''The Abyss'' (1981)
* ''Love Object'' (1984)
Short Stories
* ''The Face'' (1981) - Modern Masters of Horror (1981).
* ''The Red-Eyed Thing'' (1982) - Rod Serling's
The Twilight Zone Magazine
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Comics
Gold Key Comics published a long-running ''Twilight Zone'' comic that featured the liken ...
, September 1982.
* ''Fire'' (1984) -
Omni, April 1984.
* ''The Pool of Manhead Song'' (1984) - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1984.
* ''Decoys'' (1984) -
Shadows 7 (1984).
Produced Screenplays
* ''
Hunter's Blood
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Plot
Five men from the city decide to take a littl ...
'' (1986) - Based on Cunningham's novel.
* ''
The Last of the Finest
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Plot
The film opens at Canyon Park where narcot ...
'' (1990) - Co-Wrote Screenplay with
Thomas Lee Wright and
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Life and career
A ...
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* ''
Judgment Night'' (1993) - Co-Wrote Story with
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Filmography
*''The Dirt Bike Kid'' (1985)
*''Crossing the Mob'' (1988) (TV)
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Boss of Bosses
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'' (2001) - Based on the book by Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins.
* ''
The Big Heist
''The Big Heist'' is a 2001 crime drama television film directed by Robert Markowitz and written by Jere Cunningham and Gary Hoffman. The film, based on the 1986 non-fiction book ''The Heist'' by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, tells the stor ...
'' (2001) - Co-Wrote Screenplay with Gary Hoffman. Based on the book by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings.
* ''
Second String
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'' (2002) - Co-Wrote Story with Tom Flynn.
Unproduced Screenplays
References
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1943 births
2018 deaths
American male novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers