Jack Cunningham (screenwriter)

Jack Cunningham (born April 1, 1882 in Ionia , Iowa , United States , † October 4, 1941 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American screenwriter .

Live and act

The son of a building contractor, who later (1920s) also worked with his company to build studios in Hollywood, began his professional career as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York City . On the American east coast, Jack Cunningham made his first contacts in cinematography, which had not been developed until then, at the beginning of the 1910s. He has been a screenwriter since 1912, initially with short films for a small production company, for which John Ford's older brother, Francis Ford, directed westerns. For many years Cunningham had to be content with manuscripts for (mostly short) B- and C-films, with his move to Paramount Pictures , for which Cunningham worked for many years, Cunningham's working conditions should improve significantly.

Since the beginning of the 1920s, he was sometimes given higher-quality script assignments, and he was allowed to write the manuscripts for successful films with the silent film legends Rudolph Valentino ( You shouldn't covet your neighbor's wife ) and Douglas Fairbanks senior ( The Man with the Whip , The Pirate and The Iron Mask ) and in the early sound film also for the western stars Tom Mix ( Goldfieber, Tom Mix cleans up and Terror Trail ) and Randolph Scott ( The Flame Rider, Death Legion and The Burning Stream ) as well as for the star comedian WC Fields ( This is a gift and Mississippi ) compose. Jack Cunningham was also involved in two ambitious grand wisters: in 1922 he wrote the screenplay for James Cruze's The Caravan , in 1938 for Cecil B. DeMille's railway pioneer story Union Pacific . While working on the latter film, Cunningham suffered a stroke from which he was unable to recover.

Filmography

• 1912: In the Ranks
• 1913: Wynona's Vengeance
• 1913: A Wartime Reformation
• 1914: The Raiders
• 1914: The Trap
• 1914: Be Neutral
• 1912: In the Ranks
• 1913: Wynona's Vengeance
• 1913: A Wartime Reformation
• 1914: The Raiders
• 1914: The Trap
• 1914: Be Neutral
• 1917: Rosie's Rancho
• 1917: Art Aches
• 1917: Some Specimens
• 1917: Uneasy Money
• 1917: Some Nurse
• 1917: A Dark Deed
• 1918: The Argument
• 1918: Real Folks
• 1918: The Hopper
• 1918: Hands Up
• 1918: The Bells
• 1919: The Silver Girl
• 1919: All Wrong
• 1919: The Master Man
• 1919: The False Code
• 1920: The Green Flame
• 1920: Number 99
• 1920: Big Happiness
• 1921: The Avengng Arrow
• 1921: The Call of the North
• 1922: You shall not covet your neighbor's wife ( Beyond the Rocks )
• 1922: The caravan ( The Covered Wagon )
• 1923: The Heart Raider
• 1923: Homeward Bound
• 1923: The Light That Failed
• 1924: The Man Who Fights Alone
• 1924: Love gluten and water floods ( Top of the World )
• 1925: Contraband
• 1925: Only one woman ( Just a Woman )
• 1925: The Man with the Whip (Don Q Son of Zorro) *
• 1925: Rocking Moon
• 1926: The Black Pirate (The Black Pirate)
• 1926: West of Broadway
• 1927: The Ship of the Damned ( Captain Salvation )
• 1928: The Adventurer
• 1928: White Shadows ( White Shadows in the South Seas )
• 1928: The Devil of the North Sea ( The Viking )
• 1929: The Iron Mask (The Iron Mask)
• 1931: Shanghaied Love
• 1931: The Deceiver
• 1932: Goldfieber ( Rider of Death Valley )
• 1932: Tom Mix cleans up ( Texas Bad Man )
• 1933: Terror Trail
• 1933: The Flame Rider ( Sunset Pass )
• 1933: Silent Men
• 1934: Dougle Door
• 1934: Legion of Death ( The Last Round-Up )
• 1934: The Burning Stream ( Wagon Wheels )
• 1934: It's a Gift ( It's a poison )
• 1935: Mississippi
• 1938: The Chased Professor ( Professor Beware )
• 1938: Union Pacific

literature

• Variety, October 8, 1941, p. 54 (obituary)

Web links

• Jack Cunningham in the Internet Movie Database (English)