Jack DeWitt (writer)

Jack DeWitt (1900–1981) was an American screenwriter.

DeWitt's "Bury ’Em Alive" was the cover story in the April 1937 issue of Black Book Detective.

He wrote a number of films for producer Sandy Howard.^[1]

Select filmography

• International Lady (1942)
• Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
• Don Ricardo Returns (1946)
• Bells of San Fernando (1947)
• Louisiana (1947)
• The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947)
• Louisiana (1947)
• Rocky (1948)
• Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
• Canadian Pacific (1949)
• The Lost Volcano (1950)
• The Highwayman (1951)
• Boston Blackie (1951–53) (TV series) – various episodes
• Dick Turpin's Ride (1952)
• Fargo (1952)
• Big Town (1952) (TV series) – story for 13 episodes
• Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
• Son of Belle Starr (1953)
• Gun Belt (1953)
• Khyber Patrol(1954)
• Sitting Bull (1954)
• The Bamboo Prison (1954)
• Women's Prison (1955)
• Cell 2455, Death Row (1954)
• Cheyenne (TV series) -episode "The Last Train West" (1956)
• Crossroads (1956) (TV series) – episode "The Rabbi Davis Story"
• The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
• Rumble on the Docks (1956)
• Portland Exposé (1957)
• Oregon Passage (1957)
• The Gray Ghost (1957–58) – TV series – writer and story supervisor various episodes
• Wolf Larsen (1958)
• The Purple Gang (1959)
• Bronco – episode "Montana Passage" (1960)
• Five Guns to Tombstone (1960)
• Jack of Diamonds (1967)
• One Step to Hell (1968)
• A Man Called Horse (1970)
• Man in the Wilderness (1971)
• The Neptune Factor (1973)
• Together Brothers (1974)
• Sky Riders (1976)
• The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
• Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983) – story

Unmade

• The Al Capone Story (1957)^[2]
• The Coastwatchers (1959)^[3]