- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJere Pearson Cunningham Jr.
- After publishing several novels worldwide and selling film rights, Cunningham wrote for every studio in Hollywood, including Warner's 'The Fugitive' (uncredited),'Shiva' at Disney, 'Isobar' and 'Flamingo' for Joel Silver, "Manchurian Candidate' (uncredited), 'Rockwood' at Imagine, 'Dempsey' at HBO, 'Bulger' for R Redford. Cunningham returned to his first love, novels, on Der Spiegel's best-seller list in Germany for 'Die Tauferin", (using Jeremiah Pearson, his first two names) published by Bastei Lubbe, (also published as 'Brethren" in English), the first novel of a trilogy set during the Reformation, the second being published this fall, 2016, the third book scheduled for 2017.
- IMDb mini biography by: jere cunningham
- SpouseMadelyn Dian Cunningham née Ruleman(1971 - December 6, 2006) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenHart CunninghamElaine Cunningham
- He had written an early draft of The Fugitive (1993).
- He was an avid long-distance cyclist, hiker and environmentalist.
- He had written unproduced drafts of The Fugitive (1993) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
- On Hunter's Blood (1986): I didn't want to be involved in that. It was a small production, just a little thing that they were going to go off and do, and I said 'go ahead and do it. I was writing a picture for Fox at the time. I didn't really have time to deal with it.
- I worked really hard learning to write novels; seven-and-a-half years. I wrote six novels before I sold the first one.
- Writing is the only work that love to do. My approach has always been to avoid anything and anyone that would make me hate writing.
- I've found screenwriting to be a very pure form, very tight. You look at a screenplay, and it looks so easy to do, and that's what so hard about it.
- Hollywood is all about risk-taking. If you're not a risk-taker, you shouldn't be out here, because you'll lose your mind.
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