H. Tipton Steck

Harry "H." Tipton Steck was an American screenwriter, and scenario writer for silent film. He later worked as an advertising executive.

Life and career

Steck started his career in 1915 as the manager of negative production, and 1918 in the scenario department with the Essanay Studios, a film production company in Chicago. He later worked for Thomas H. Ince at Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studio. Steck was one of the screenwriters for the John Ford Stock Company.
He was married in 1925 to Florence Eddye Bartlett.
Steck died on June 3, 1953, in Bel Air, Los Angeles in California. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

The Accounting, as writer, adapted from the novel The Accounting by Steck
Graustark, as writer; adapted from Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
The Old Sin, as screenwriter
Miss Freckles, as scenario writer
The Great Silence, as writer
Millstones, as scenario writer
The Phantom Buccaneer, as writer; adapted from the novel Another Man's Shoes by Victor Bridges
The Small Town Guy, as writer with Freeman Tilden
Gift O' Gab, as writer
The Man Who Was Afraid, as screenwriter, adapted from the novel by Mary Brecht Pulver
The Sea Flower, as writer with George C. Hull
Rider of the Law, as screenwriter
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, as scenario writer
The Last Outlaw, as screenwriter
Gun Law, as screenwriter
By Indian Post, as screenwriter
Marked Men
The Broken Butterfly, as writer with Charles E. Whittaker
The Leopard Woman, as screenwriter with Stanley C. Morse; adapted from the novel The Leopard Woman by Stewart Edward White
Love, as inter-titles writer
The Sting of the Lash, as writer with Harvey Gates
Live and Let Live, as writer
Dangerous Pastime, as writer with Wyndham Martin
Woman's Law, as writer
Out of the Past, as writer with John S. Lopez
Outcast Souls, as film editor, and titles