LC control no. | n 87847802 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Cunningham, Jack, 1882-1941 |
Birth date | 1882-04-01 |
Death date | 1941-10-04 |
Place of birth | Iowa |
Place of death | Santa Monica (Calif.) |
Profession or occupation | Screenwriters Newspaper editors |
Special note | Do not confuse with actor Jack Cunningham, d. 1967 at age 54. |
Found in | Arkansas traveler [MP] 1938: credits (based on a story by Jack Cunningham) Int. film necrol., 1981 (Jack Cunningham; b. 4/1/1882, Ionia, Iowa; d. 10/4/41; writer) IMDb, viewed Jul 20, 2017 (Jack Cunningham (1882-1941); born April 1, 1882 in Ionia, Iowa; died October 4, 1941 (age 59) in Santa Monica, California; one of the more prolific and fast working screenwriters in Hollywood; he had been the editor of The Pittsburgh Leader and The New York Evening Sun and 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 built many of the Hollywood studios constructed in the early 1920s) |
Associated language | eng |