Background
He was born on September 21, 1894 in Marietta, Ohio. He was the second son of James Creelman, the yellow journalist and Alice Leffingwell Buell. He had a sister, Eileen Creelman, who married Frederick Morgan Davenport Junior., son of New York congressman Frederick Morgan Davenport.
Career
Creelman moved to New York City and then Washington, District of Columbia where his father worked as a journalist. He was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record with Clements Ripley, writer of Jezebel. Creelman worked for Radio-Keith-Orpheum studios from 1929 and contributed to the storyline of many of the studios" early adventure and thriller films including The Untamed Lady, The Most Dangerous Game, King Kong, Dancers in the Dark and The Last Days of Pompeii.
Creelman began working in Hollywood in 1924 and wrote for 30 films before stopping in 1935.
He also directed the 1927 film High Hat. Creelman committed suicide in 1941 by jumping off the top of a building on September 18, 1941 on 72nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, New New York
He was pronounced dead at Metropolitan Hospital. Creelman. His father"s father was born to Scots-Irish migrants to Montreal while his father"s mother was of Scottish descent.
His mother was Marietta native.