---
name: "Jack Cunningham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-cunningham-99379"
fi1m_id: "jack-cunningham-99379"
imdb_id: "nm0192325"
tmdb_id: 99379
wikidata_id: "Q3157157"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 April 1882"
died: "4 October 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:06:08.407805+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jack Cunningham

## Identity

Jack Cunningham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-cunningham-99379
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-cunningham-99379
- **IMDb ID:** nm0192325
- **TMDB ID:** 99379
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3157157
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cunningham_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3157157, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192325/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99379

Writer. Born 1 April 1882 in Ionia, Iowa. Died 4 October 1941.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 April 1882, Ionia, Iowa
- **Died:** 4 October 1941
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cunningham_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3157157, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192325/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99379

## Biography

Jack Cunningham was an American screenwriter. He was born on 1 April 1882 in Ionia, Iowa, and died on 4 October 1941 in Santa Monica, California, from a cerebral haemorrhage.

He wrote for 132 films between 1913 and 1939. His credits include the screenplay for *It's a Gift* (1934), adaptation for *Union Pacific* (1939) and work on *The Black Pirate* (1926).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *It's a Gift* (1934), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/its-a-gift.md)

## Complete filmography (90)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Union Pacific* (1939), Adaptation
- *Painted Desert* (1938), Story
- *Professor Beware* (1938), Writer
- *Easy to Take* (1936), Producer
- *Mississippi* (1935), Screenplay
- *It's a Gift* (1934), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/its-a-gift.md)
- *Wagon Wheels* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Old-Fashioned Way* (1934), Screenplay
- *Double Door* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Last Round-up* (1934), Writer
- *To the Last Man* (1933), Screenplay
- *Man of the Forest* (1933), Screenplay
- *Sunset Pass* (1933), Adaptation
- *Under the Tonto Rim* (1933), Adaptation
- *Silent Men* (1933), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *Buffalo Stampede* (1933), Adaptation
- *Terror Trail* (1933), Adaptation
- *Flaming Guns* (1932), Writer
- *The Fourth Horseman* (1932), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *The Texas Bad Man* (1932), Story, Screenplay
- *The Rider of Death Valley* (1932), Writer
- *The Deceiver* (1931), Writer
- *The Guilty Generation* (1931), Adaptation, Dialogue
- *Shanghaied Love* (1931), Screenplay
- *Clearing the Range* (1931), Story
- *The Viking* (1928), Screenplay
- *The Adventurer* (1928), Writer
- *Captain Salvation* (1927), Writer
- *West of Broadway* (1926), Scenario Writer
- *The Black Pirate* (1926), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Rocking Moon* (1926), Adaptation
- *Don Q Son of Zorro* (1925), Writer
- *Just a Woman* (1925), Writer
- *Contraband* (1925), Writer
- *The Man Who Fights Alone* (1924), Writer
- *The Light That Failed* (1923), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Homeward Bound* (1923), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *A Gentleman of Leisure* (1923), Writer
- *The Heart Raider* (1923), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *The Tiger's Claw* (1923), Screenplay, Story
- *The Covered Wagon* (1923), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *The Ghost Breaker* (1922), Adaptation
- *A Trip to Paramountown* (1922), Writer, Director
- *Beyond the Rocks* (1922), Screenplay
- *The Call of the North* (1921), Writer
- *A Wife's Awakening* (1921), Story
- *The Rowdy* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *Where Lights Are Low* (1921), Writer
- *Double Adventure* (1921), Writer
- *The Devil to Pay* (1920), Writer
- *The Tiger's Coat* (1920), Screenplay
- *The House of Whispers* (1920), Scenario Writer
- *Big Happiness* (1920), Writer
- *The Green Flame* (1920), Scenario Writer
- *The Adventures of Daredevil Jack* (1920), Story
- *The Dream Cheater* (1920), Screenplay
- *$30,000* (1920), Writer
- *Live Sparks* (1920), Writer
- *It Happened in Paris* (1919), Writer
- *The Joyous Liar* (1919), Screenplay, Story
- *The World Aflame* (1919), Scenario Writer
- *Playthings of Passion* (1919), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *All Wrong* (1919), Writer
- *The Silver Girl* (1919), Screenplay
- *Todd of the Times* (1919), Story, Screenplay
- *Adele* (1919), Writer
- *The Midnight Stage* (1919), Screenplay
- *Two-Gun Betty* (1918), Writer
- *The Narrow Path* (1918), Writer
- *The Goddess of Lost Lake* (1918), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *Border Raiders* (1918), Story
- *The Heart of Rachael* (1918), Writer
- *The Bells* (1918), Screenplay
- *A Law Unto Herself* (1918), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *Hands Up* (1918), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *The Ghost of the Rancho* (1918), Scenario Writer
- *The Shoes That Danced* (1918), Writer
- *Real Folks* (1918), Writer
- *Limousine Life* (1918), Writer
- *The Medicine Man* (1917), Story
- *The Stainless Barrier* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *Wild Sumac* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *A Stormy Knight* (1917), Story
- *The Wrong Man* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *His Fatal Beauty* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *Her Strange Experience* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *Uneasy Money* (1917), Writer
- *The Diamonds of Destiny* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *The Raiders* (1914), Scenario Writer
- *In the Fall of '64* (1914), Scenario Writer

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