Thomas J. Geraghty(1883-1945)
- Writer
- Editor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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 La baie du destin (1937).
