Biography
This American screenwriter was usually billed under his full name of Frederick Kennedy Myton. Active from 1916, Myton scripted such melodramas as
Silk-Lined Burglar (1918), The Deadlier Sex (1919),
Forbidden Cargo (1925), and
Isle of Lost Ships (1929). During the 1930s, he turned out scores of Westerns, including the black-oriented Herb Jeffries starrer
Harlem on the Prairie (1937). He landed at low-budget PRC Pictures in 1940, where he worked on scripts of such low-budget horrors
Dead Men Walk,
The Mad Monster, and
The Black Raven. Fred Myton remained active until 1952. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide