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).
Known For
Union Pacific
(1939)
Adaptation
Full Filmography
Writing
In the Fall of '64
(1914)
Scenario Writer
A Stormy Knight
(1917)
Story
The Wrong Man
(1917)
Scenario Writer
The Goddess of Lost Lake
(1918)
Scenario Writer and Screenplay
A Law Unto Herself
(1918)
Scenario Writer and Screenplay
Hands Up
(1918)
Scenario Writer and Screenplay
The Narrow Path
(1918)
Writer
The Heart of Rachael
(1918)
Writer
Border Raiders
(1918)
Story
Limousine Life
(1918)
Writer
The Bells
(1918)
Screenplay
Playthings of Passion
(1919)
Scenario Writer and Screenplay
Adele
(1919)
Writer
It Happened in Paris
(1919)
Writer
The Midnight Stage
(1919)
Screenplay
The Silver Girl
(1919)
Screenplay
All Wrong
(1919)
Writer
The World Aflame
(1919)
Scenario Writer
Todd of the Times
(1919)
Story and Screenplay
The Devil to Pay
(1920)
Writer
The Dream Cheater
(1920)
Screenplay
The Tiger's Coat
(1920)
Screenplay
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
(1920)
Story
The Green Flame
(1920)
Scenario Writer
The House of Whispers
(1920)
Scenario Writer
Where Lights Are Low
(1921)
Writer
Double Adventure
(1921)
Writer
The Call of the North
(1921)
Writer
The Rowdy
(1921)
Scenario Writer
Beyond the Rocks
(1922)
Screenplay
A Trip to Paramountown
(1922)
Writer
The Covered Wagon
(1923)
Adaptation and Screenplay
The Light That Failed
(1923)
Adaptation and Screenplay
The Heart Raider
(1923)
Adaptation and Screenplay
The Tiger's Claw
(1923)
Screenplay and Story
Homeward Bound
(1923)
Scenario Writer and Screenplay
A Gentleman of Leisure
(1923)
Writer
The Man Who Fights Alone
(1924)
Writer
Don Q Son of Zorro
(1925)
Writer
The Black Pirate
(1926)
Adaptation and Screenplay
Rocking Moon
(1926)
Adaptation
Captain Salvation
(1927)
Writer
The Viking
(1928)
Screenplay
The Adventurer
(1928)
Writer
Clearing the Range
(1931)
Story
The Guilty Generation
(1931)
Adaptation and Dialogue
The Rider of Death Valley
(1932)
Writer
Flaming Guns
(1932)
Writer
The Fourth Horseman
(1932)
Adaptation and Screenplay
The Texas Bad Man
(1932)
Story and Screenplay
The Thundering Herd
(1933)
Adaptation
Man of the Forest
(1933)
Screenplay
To the Last Man
(1933)
Screenplay
Sunset Pass
(1933)
Adaptation
Silent Men
(1933)
Scenario Writer and Screenplay
Under the Tonto Rim
(1933)
Adaptation
Terror Trail
(1933)
Adaptation
Wagon Wheels
(1934)
Screenplay
Double Door
(1934)
Screenplay
The Last Round-up
(1934)
Writer
The Old-Fashioned Way
(1934)
Screenplay
It's a Gift
(1934)
Screenplay
Mississippi
(1935)
Screenplay
Professor Beware
(1938)
Writer
Painted Desert
(1938)
Story
Union Pacific
(1939)
Adaptation
Directing
Production