Jack Cunningham (April 1, 1882 – October 4, 1941) was an American
screenwriter. He wrote for more than 130 films between 1913 and 1939. He was born in
Ionia, Iowa
Ionia is a city in Chickasaw County, Iowa, United States. The population was 226 at the time of the 2020 census.
Geography
Ionia is located at (43.034493, -92.456606).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ...
, and died from a
cerebral hemorrhage in
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing t ...
.
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
* Henry A ...
'' (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
* Agn ...
'' (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 St ...
'' (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) run ...
'' (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.Rainey p.230
Cast
* J. Warren Kerrigan as Kirk Marden
* Lois Wilson as Janet Leslie
* W ...
'' (1918)
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The Narrow Path'' (1918)
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The Goddess of Lost Lake'' (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
''The False Code'' is a lost 1919 American silent drama film directed by Ernest C. Warde and produced by and starring Frank Keenan. It was distributed by Pathé Exchange.
Cast
*Frank Keenan as John Benton
* Miles McCarthy as Henry Vance
*Joseph J ...
'' (1919)
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The Joyous Liar
''The Joyous Liar'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Lillian Walker, and Joseph J. Dowling.Flowers & Frizler p.314
Cast
* J. Warren Kerrigan as Burke Harlan
* Lillian Walker as ...
'' (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 a ...
'' (1919)
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Daredevil Jack
''Daredevil Jack'' is a 1920 American silent 15-chapter action film serial directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and featuring Lon Chaney as a villain. The chapters were shown weekly between February and Ma ...
'' (1920)
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The Dream Cheater'' (1920)
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The House of Whispers
''The House of Whispers'' is a lost 1920 American silent mystery film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Joseph J. Dowling and Fritzi Brunette.Goble p.803
Cast
* J. Warren Kerrigan as Spaulding Nelson
* Joseph J. Do ...
'' (1920)
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$30,000'' (1920)
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Number 99'' (1920)
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Live Sparks'' (1920)
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The Green Flame'' (1920)
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The Devil to Pay'' (1920)
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Double Adventure
''Double Adventure'' is a 1921 American film serial directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The film is considered to be lost in the United States. All or parts of the serial are held by Gosfilmofond, Russian State Archive.
Cast
* Charles Hutchison as Bob ...
'' (1921)
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A Wife's Awakening'' (1921)
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The Rowdy
''The Rowdy'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by David Kirkland and starring Rex De Rosselli, Anna Dodge and Gladys Walton.Connelly p.240
Cast
* Rex De Rosselli as Capt. Dan Purcell
* Anna Dodge as Mrs. Purcell
* Gladys Walton ...
'' (1921)
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Where Lights Are Low'' (1921)
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The Avenging Arrow
''The Avenging Arrow'' is a 1921 American silent Western film serial directed by William J. Bowman and W. S. Van Dyke. Its 15 episodes are now considered to be lost.
Episodes
Fifteen episodes of ''The Avenging Arrow'' were released weekly f ...
'' (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 Western (genre), 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, an ...
'' (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. It is an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French l ...
'' (1929)
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The Guilty Generation
''The Guilty Generation'' is a 1931 American pre-code crime film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings and Robert Young.
Plot
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parent ...
'' (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
''The Texas Bad Man'' is a 1932 American Western film directed by Edward Laemmle, written by Jack Cunningham and Richard Schayer, and starring Tom Mix, Lucille Powers, Willard Robertson, Fred Kohler, Joseph W. Girard and Tetsu Komai. It was ...
'' (1932)
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The Fourth Horseman'' (1932)
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Flaming Guns
''Flaming Guns'' is a 1932 American Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and written by Jack Cunningham. The film stars Tom Mix, William Farnum, Ruth Hall, Clarence Wilson, George Hackathorne and Duke R. Lee. The film was released on Decem ...
'' (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. It was directed by Norman McLeod, who had directed Fields in his cameo as Humpty Dumpty in ''Alice in Wonderlan ...
'' (1934)
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Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
'' (1935)
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Painted Desert'' (1938)
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Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pac ...
'' (1939)
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, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metro ...
1882 births
1941 deaths
American male screenwriters
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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