• Name: J. Benton Cheney
  • Date of Birth: Not available
  • Place of Birth: Not available
Mini-bio: American screenwriter J. Benton Cheney served with the 31st Infantry in Siberia and the Philippines from 1919, remaining in the latter location as a sports writer with the Manila Bulletin. Relocating ... read moreto China, Cheney became city editor of the Shanghai Times and, he later claimed, functioned as spokesman for Chiang Kai-Shek. An editor for Reuters, he returned to the United States and took up screenwriting with The Game That Kills (1937). Associated with B-Western producer Harry Sherman from 1940, Cheney wrote some of the best Hopalong Cassidy Westerns including Border Vigilantes and Riders of the Timberline (both 1941). He switched allegiance to Republic Pictures in 1943, adding Roy Rogers to his clients, but returned frequently to the Hoppy series and later also wrote for the likes of Charles Starrett and Rogers imitator Jimmy Wakely. Cheney ended his screen career writing for the Gene Autry Show in the early '50s. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
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