---
name: "June Mathis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/june-mathis"
fi1m_id: "june-mathis"
imdb_id: "nm0558923"
tmdb_id: 35501
wikidata_id: "Q251303"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "30 January 1887"
died: "26 July 1927"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:10:51.125792+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."
---

# June Mathis

## Identity

June Mathis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/june-mathis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** june-mathis
- **IMDb ID:** nm0558923
- **TMDB ID:** 35501
- **Wikidata ID:** Q251303
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Mathis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251303, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35501

Writer. Born 30 January 1887 in Leadville, Colorado, USA. Died 26 July 1927.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 30 January 1887, Leadville, Colorado, USA
- **Died:** 26 July 1927
- **Also known as:** June Beulah Hughes
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Mathis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251303, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558923/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35501

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Greed*](https://film.one/film/greed.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

June Mathis was an American screenwriter and the first woman to head a script department at Metro (later MGM). Born June Beulah Hughes, she adopted her stepfather’s surname and began her career as a stage and vaudeville actress before moving into scenario writing around 1917–1918.

She wrote the screenplay for *The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse* (1921), which helped launch Rudolph Valentino, and contributed to other Valentino films including *Blood and Sand* (1922). Mathis also worked on *The Saphead* (1920) and received screenplay credit on *Greed* (1924). She later provided the adaptation for *Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ* (1925).

Mathis died in New York on 26 July 1927.

*Sources: britannica.com, encyclopedia.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Greed* (1924), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/greed.md)

## Complete filmography (100)

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

- *An Affair of the Follies* (1927), Writer
- *The Masked Woman* (1927), Writer
- *The Greater Glory* (1926), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *The Girl from Montmartre* (1926), Editorial Manager
- *Irene* (1926), Script Editor
- *Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ* (1925), Adaptation
- *We Moderns* (1925), Writer
- *What Fools Men* (1925), Editorial Coordinator
- *The Marriage Whirl* (1925), Editorial Manager
- *The Desert Flower* (1925), Writer
- *Sally* (1925), Screenplay
- *Greed* (1924), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/greed.md)
- *Name the Man* (1924), Editorial Manager
- *Wild Oranges* (1924), Editorial Manager
- *In the Palace of the King* (1923), Screenplay
- *The Day of Faith* (1923), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *The Spanish Dancer* (1923), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Three Wise Fools* (1923), Writer
- *The Young Rajah* (1922), Writer
- *Blood and Sand* (1922), Screenplay
- *Hate* (1922), Adaptation
- *The Golden Gift* (1922), Story
- *Turn to the Right* (1922), Writer
- *The Hole in the Wall* (1921), Adaptation
- *Camille* (1921), Writer
- *A Trip to Paradise* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *The Conquering Power* (1921), Writer
- *The Man Who* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse* (1921), Screenplay
- *Hearts Are Trumps* (1920), Writer
- *Polly with a Past* (1920), Scenario Writer
- *The Price of Redemption* (1920), Writer
- *The Saphead* (1920), Screenplay
- *Old Lady 31* (1920), Scenario Writer
- *The Right of Way* (1920), Screenplay
- *The Walk-Offs* (1920), Writer
- *The Willow Tree* (1920), Screenplay
- *Lombardi, Ltd.* (1919), Scenario Writer
- *The Brat* (1919), Screenplay
- *The Microbe* (1919), Writer
- *The Man Who Stayed at Home* (1919), Writer
- *Some Bride* (1919), Writer
- *Almost Married* (1919), Writer
- *The Amateur Adventuress* (1919), Writer
- *The Red Lantern* (1919), Writer
- *The Island of Intrigue* (1919), Writer
- *The Parisian Tigress* (1919), Story
- *The Way of the Strong* (1919), Writer
- *Satan Junior* (1919), Writer
- *Johnny-on-the-Spot* (1919), Scenario Writer
- *Out of the Fog* (1919), Writer
- *The Divorcee* (1919), Writer
- *The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns* (1919), Writer
- *Eye for Eye* (1918), Writer
- *Sylvia on a Spree* (1918), Writer
- *His Bonded Wife* (1918), Writer
- *Secret Strings* (1918), Scenario Writer
- *Kildare of Storm* (1918), Scenario Writer
- *The Silent Woman* (1918), Writer
- *The House of Mirth* (1918), Writer
- *A Successful Adventure* (1918), Writer
- *To Hell with the Kaiser!* (1918), Writer
- *A Man's World* (1918), Writer
- *The House of Gold* (1918), Writer
- *Social Quicksands* (1918), Writer
- *The Winning of Beatrice* (1918), Scenario Writer
- *Toys of Fate* (1918), Scenario Writer
- *The Trail To Yesterday* (1918), Writer
- *With Neatness and Dispatch* (1918), Writer
- *Social Hypocrites* (1918), Writer
- *The Brass Check* (1918), Writer
- *The Eyes of Mystery* (1918), Writer
- *The Winding Trail* (1918), Writer
- *The Legion of Death* (1918), Writer
- *Daybreak* (1918), Screenplay
- *Blue Jeans* (1917), Writer
- *Red, White and Blue Blood* (1917), Writer
- *The Voice of Conscience* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *Draft 258* (1917), Writer
- *The Jury of Fate* (1917), Writer
- *Miss Robinson Crusoe* (1917), Writer
- *The Trail of the Shadow* (1917), Writer
- *Aladdin's Other Lamp* (1917), Writer
- *Lady Barnacle* (1917), Writer
- *The Call of Her People* (1917), Writer
- *The Beautiful Lie* (1917), Writer
- *The Millionaire's Double* (1917), Story
- *A Magdalene of the Hills* (1917), Writer
- *The Power of Decision* (1917), Writer
- *His Father's Son* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *The Barricade* (1917), Writer
- *Threads of Fate* (1917), Writer
- *A Wife by Proxy* (1917), Scenario Writer
- *The Sunbeam* (1916), Writer
- *The Dawn of Love* (1916), Writer
- *God's Half Acre* (1916), Writer
- *Her Great Price* (1916), Scenario Writer
- *The Upstart* (1916), Scenario Writer
- *The House of Tears* (1915), Writer
- *Fair and Warmer*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![June Mathis](https://film.one/media/person/3849781/gallery-74f9120a6cc7.jpg) June Mathis — Unknown publicity shot; photographers are credited en masse in the book's endnotes but which photographer is responsible for which is not listed., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/June_Mathis_Who%27s_Who_on_the_Screen.jpg/1280px-June_Mathis_Who%27s_Who_on_the_Screen.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wid's Year Book, 1920](https://film.one/media/person/3849781/gallery-e715de4cda3a.jpg) Wid's Year Book, 1920 — Photographer uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/June_Mathis.jpg/1280px-June_Mathis.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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