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Lloyd Lonergan (March 3, 1870, Chicago, Illinois - April 6, 1937, New York City) was one of the most prolific scenario and screenwriters in American silent film. A brother-in-law of Edwin Thanhouser he worked for the Thanhouser Company based in New Rochelle, New York, writing screenplays for over 100 films.
Writer: The Lurking Peril. Born in Chicago, Lloyd F. Lonergan was one of five children of Thomas Lonergan, a newspaper publisher. His mother was a writer for various newspapers, and eventually all of his siblings became newspaper writers, too. Lonergan attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.
Lloyd Lonergan. Writer: The Lurking Peril. Born in Chicago, Lloyd F. Lonergan was one of five children of Thomas Lonergan, a newspaper publisher. His mother was a writer for various newspapers, and eventually all of his siblings became newspaper writers, too. Lonergan attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.
Born in Chicago, Lloyd F. Lonergan was one of five children of Thomas Lonergan, a newspaper publisher. His mother was a writer for various newspapers, and eventually all of his siblings became newspaper writers too. Lonergan attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.
The family mode of production in the early motion picture industry was firmly established by stage actors and theater management veterans Edwin and Gertrude Thanhouser with brother-in-law and journalist Lloyd F. Lonergan.
Biographical Notes: Born in Chicago on March 3, 1870, Lloyd F. Lonergan was one of five children (four boys and a girl) of Thomas A. Lonergan, a newspaper publisher and editor, and Ellen A. Lonergan, a newspaper writer born in Ireland, who during his career was society editor for The Chicago Tribune and The New York World.
Charles Hite and Lloyd Lonergan sit on the beach while on a Thanhouser Company outing at Cape May, New Jersey, ca. 1913. Lloyd Lonergan was one of the most prolific scenario and screenwriters in American silent film, and Charles Hite was president and chief executive officer at Thanhouser.
