Biography
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).
Filmography
all 76
Movies 76
Writer 75
Producer 1
Writer
Union Pacific (1939)
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Writer
The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
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Writer
Painted Desert (1938)
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Writer
Professor Beware (1938)
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Producer
Easy to Take (1936)
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Writer
Poppy (1936)
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Writer
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
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Writer
Mississippi (1935)
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Writer
It's a Gift (1934)
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Writer
Wagon Wheels (1934)
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Writer
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
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Writer
Double Door (1934)
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Writer
The Last Round-up (1934)
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Writer
To the Last Man (1933)
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Writer
Man of the Forest (1933)
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Sunset Pass (1933)
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Writer
Under the Tonto Rim (1933)
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Writer
Silent Men (1933)
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Writer
The Thundering Herd (1933)
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Writer
Terror Trail (1933)
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Writer
Flaming Guns (1932)
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The Fourth Horseman (1932)
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The Texas Bad Man (1932)
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The Rider of Death Valley (1932)
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The Guilty Generation (1931)
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Shanghaied Love (1931)
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Fifty Fathoms Deep (1931)
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Clearing the Range (1931)
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The Iron Mask (1929)
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White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
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The Viking (1928)
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The Adventurer (1928)
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Captain Salvation (1927)
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West of Broadway (1926)
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The Black Pirate (1926)
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Rocking Moon (1926)
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Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
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The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
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The Light That Failed (1923)
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Writer
Homeward Bound (1923)
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Writer
A Gentleman of Leisure (1923)
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The Heart Raider (1923)
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The Tiger's Claw (1923)
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The Covered Wagon (1923)
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The Ghost Breaker (1922)
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A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
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Beyond the Rocks (1922)
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Writer
The Call of the North (1921)
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The Rowdy (1921)
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Writer
Where Lights Are Low (1921)
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Double Adventure (1921)
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The Devil to Pay (1920)
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Writer
The Tiger's Coat (1920)
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Writer
The House of Whispers (1920)
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Writer
The Green Flame (1920)
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Writer
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
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Writer
The Dream Cheater (1920)
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Writer
It Happened in Paris (1919)
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Writer
The World Aflame (1919)
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Playthings of Passion (1919)
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Writer
All Wrong (1919)
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The Silver Girl (1919)
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Todd of the Times (1919)
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Adele (1919)
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The Midnight Stage (1919)
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The Narrow Path (1918)
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The Goddess of Lost Lake (1918)
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Border Raiders (1918)
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The Heart of Rachael (1918)
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The Bells (1918)
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A Law Unto Herself (1918)
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Hands Up (1918)
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Limousine Life (1918)
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A Stormy Knight (1917)
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Writer
The Wrong Man (1917)
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Writer
In the Fall of '64 (1914)
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Ratings
Average 3.88
Based on 25.9 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1882-04-01
Deathday1941-10-04 (59 years old)
Birth PlaceIonia, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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