George Benjamin Meehan Jr. (1891–1947) was the cinematographer of more than 150 American films.
George Benjamin Meehan Jr. | |
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| Born | July 19, 1891 |
| Died | February 10, 1947 (aged 55) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
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Life
editMeehan was born on July 19, 1891, in Brooklyn, New York. During World War I he was a cinematographer in the United States Army. He married Louise Harriett Mahoney.
Meehan was the cinematographer for Mary of the Movies (1923),[1] Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925),[2] The Ghost Talks (1929),[3] Back to the Woods (1937),[4] The Big Chance (1933), Inside Information (1934), Tarzan’s Revenge (1938), Riders of Black River (1939), The Wildcat of Tucson (1940), Beyond the Sacramento (1940), and Voice of the Whistler (1945).[5]
Death
editMeehan was working on King of the Wild Horses when he became ill and was replaced on the project by Philip Tannura. Meehan died on February 10, 1947,[6] in Hollywood, California,[7] and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park of Glendale, California.
Selected filmography
edit- Battling Buddy (1924)
- The Great Sensation (1925)
- The New Champion (1925)
- Fighting Youth (1925)
- Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
- Code of the Range (1936)
- Manhattan Shakedown (1937)
- Two Gun Law (1937)
- The Taming of the West (1939)
- The Return of Wild Bill (1940)
- Bullets for Bandits (1942)
- Terror Trail (1946)