Jack Cunningham
Writing
🎂 1882-04-01
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).
Writing (86)
Adaptation
1939
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1934
Adaptation
1926
Screenplay
1926
Screenplay
1933
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1921
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1935
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1934
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1934
Adaptation
1933
Writer
1938
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1931
Adaptation
1923
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1923
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1925
Screenplay
1933
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1918
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1934
Adaptation
1926
Adaptation
1932
Screenplay
1932
Story
1938
Story
1932
Screenplay
1932
Screenplay
1922
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1928
Writer
1927
Story
1920
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1920
Story
1931
Scenario Writer
1921
Scenario Writer
1918
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1918
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1919
Adaptation
1923
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1923
Scenario Writer
1919
Screenplay
1919
Writer
1922
Scenario Writer
1917
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1923
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1919
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1917
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1924
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1928
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1933
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1920
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1933
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1933
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1931
Dialogue
1931
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1920
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1918
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1932
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1931
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1933
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1933
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1923
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1923
Scenario Writer
1918
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1918
Adaptation
1923
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1923
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1920
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1934
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1917
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1920
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1923
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1923
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1932
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1918
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1918
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1919
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1914
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