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Thomas J. Geraghty (1883-1945)

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Birthplace:
Rushville - Indiana - USA

Born:
April 10, 1883

Died:
June 5, 1945

Biography from TheMovieDB

Born and raised in Indiana, Thomas Geraghty left for New York after graduating school and got a job as a reporter for the New York Herald and later the New York Tribune. His entrance into the film business was as a publicist, and he later became a writer for the one-reel comedies of Sidney Drew. In Los Angeles he got a job as a writer for Douglas Fairbanks, and was sent to New York by Famous Players-Lasky when it opened a studio there. He ran the studio for several years, then was sent to London to run the studio there, before returning to the US in 1922. He turned out screenplays for various studios throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including the highly regarded 'Wings of the Morning' (1937).

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Adaptation:
1928  The Big Noise
1929  Tanned Legs
1932  Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Co-Writer:
1925  The Man Who Found Himself
1928  The Big Noise
1929  Tanned Legs
1932  Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Scenario Writer:
1917  Those Without Sin
1918  Social Ambition
1919  A Heart in Pawn
1919  Too Much Johnson
1919  When the Clouds Roll By
1921  The Charm School
1925  The Man Who Found Himself
1928  The Big Noise
1929  Tanned Legs
1932  Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1933  Samarang

Screenplay:
1917  Those Without Sin
1918  Social Ambition
1919  A Heart in Pawn
1919  A Man's Fight
1919  Too Much Johnson
1919  When the Clouds Roll By
1920  The Mollycoddle
1921  The Charm School
1924  Pied Piper Malone
1925  Irish Luck
1925  The Man Who Found Himself
1928  The Big Noise
1929  Smiling Irish Eyes
1929  Tanned Legs
1932  Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1933  Elmer, the Great
1933  Samarang
1935  No Limit
1936  Keep Your Seats, Please
1937  Wings of the Morning

Story:
1917  Those Without Sin
1918  Social Ambition
1919  A Heart in Pawn
1919  A Man's Fight
1919  The Courageous Coward
1919  Too Much Johnson
1919  When the Clouds Roll By
1920  The Mollycoddle
1921  The Charm School
1924  Pied Piper Malone
1925  Irish Luck
1925  The Man Who Found Himself
1928  The Big Noise
1929  Smiling Irish Eyes
1929  Tanned Legs
1932  Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1933  Elmer, the Great
1933  Samarang
1935  No Limit
1935  So You Won't Talk
1936  Keep Your Seats, Please
1937  Wings of the Morning

Writer:
1917  The American Consul
1917  Those Without Sin
1918  Social Ambition
1919  A Heart in Pawn
1919  A Man's Fight
1919  Diane of the Green Van
1919  In Old Kentucky
1919  The Courageous Coward
1919  Too Much Johnson
1919  When the Clouds Roll By
1920  Always Audacious
1920  The Isle of Love
1920  The Mollycoddle
1920  You Never Can Tell
1921  The Charm School
1923  Hollywood
1923  Woman-Proof
1924  Pied Piper Malone
1925  Irish Luck
1925  Sackcloth and Scarlet
1925  The Man Who Found Himself
1925  The Sporting Venus
1926  The New Klondike
1927  Fireman, Save My Child
1927  Now We're in the Air
1928  Beau Sabreur
1928  Harold Teen
1928  Mad Hour
1928  The Big Noise
1928  Wife Savers
1929  Footlights and Fools
1929  Smiling Irish Eyes
1929  Synthetic Sin
1929  Tanned Legs
1932  Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1933  Elmer, the Great
1933  Samarang
1934  The Church Mouse
1935  No Limit
1935  So You Won't Talk
1936  Debt of Honour
1936  Keep Your Seats, Please
1937  Wings of the Morning

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