Thomas J. Geraghty
Known for: Writing
Born: April 10, 1883
Died: June 5, 1945
Place of birth: Rushville - Indiana - USA
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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Filmography
61 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
5.7
Shipyard Sally
1939
6.2
Wings of the Morning
1937
9.0
Debt of Honour
1936
6.5
Keep Your Seats, Please
193610.0
She Knew What She Wanted
1936
6.5
No Limit
19358.0
Mr. What's-His-Name?
1935
8.0
So You Won't Talk
1935
5.8
The Church Mouse
19344.1
Samarang
1933
5.1
Elmer, the Great
1933NR
The Iceless Arctic
1932
6.3
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1932
4.4
Tanned Legs
1929
7.0
Footlights and Fools
1929
9.0
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
10.0
Synthetic Sin
1929
8.0
Waterfront
1928
7.0
Harold Teen
1928
7.0
The Big Noise
1928
7.0
Mad Hour
1928
9.0
Beau Sabreur
1928
7.0
Wife Savers
1928
7.5
Now We're in the Air
1927
8.0
Fireman, Save My Child
1927
5.0
It's the Old Army Game
1926
6.0
The New Klondike
1926
4.0
Irish Luck
1925
7.0
The Man Who Found Himself
1925
7.0
Wild, Wild Susan
1925
8.0
Old Home Week
19256.7
The Sporting Venus
1925
8.0
The End of the World
1925NR
The End of the World
1925
7.0
Sackcloth and Scarlet
1925
6.5
Pied Piper Malone
1924
8.0
Woman-Proof
1923
9.0
Hollywood
1923
8.0
The Leopardess
1923
7.0
Love's Boomerang
1922
NR
The Isle of Love
1922
7.0
The Charm School
1921
9.0
Burglar Proof
1920
9.0
Always Audacious
1920
9.0
You Never Can Tell
1920
6.5
The Mollycoddle
1920
7.0
An Adventuress
1920
6.7
When the Clouds Roll By
1919
9.0
In Old Kentucky
1919
9.0
Too Much Johnson
1919
10.0
A Man's Fight
1919
8.0
The Courageous Coward
1919
8.0
A Heart in Pawn
1919
9.0
Diane of the Green Van
1919
10.0
In for Thirty Days
1919
NR
Her Inspiration
1918
10.0
Social Ambition
1918
NR
The Turn of a Card
1918
NR
A Man's Man
1917
NR
Those Without Sin
1917NR
The American Consul
1917