Benjamin H. Kline
Benjamin H. Kline (1894-1974) was an American cinematographer and film director.
Kline was born in Birmingham, Alabama and started his career as a cinematographer in 1920 with Universal Pictures' Red Lane. Over his career he shot about 350 films and television shows, a number that includes many serials and a large number of Three Stooges short subjects for Columbia Pictures. He worked up through about 1972. His son Richard H. Kline is also a noted cinematographer. Kline also directed eight films during the period of 1931-1945.[1]
Partial filmography
As director
Kline directed seven films, one Rin Tin Tin serial and six westerns:
- The Lightning Warrior (1931)
- Cowboy in the Clouds (1943)
- Sundown Valley (1944)
- Cowboy from Lonesome River (1944)
- Cyclone Prairie Rangers (1944)
- Saddle Leather Law (1944)
- Sagebrush Heroes (1945)
Sources also suggest that Kline replaced B. Reeves Eason as uncredited director of the The Galloping Ghost serial in 1931.
As cinematographer
Kline's films as cinematographer include:
- Hitchin' Posts (1920) with director John Ford
- The Night Horsemen (1921)
- Sky High (1922)
- Chasing the Moon (1922)
- The Six-Fifty (1923)
- The Scarlet West (1925)
- Sensation Seekers (1927)
- Peacock Alley (1930)
- Texas Cyclone (1932)
- The Wrecker (1933)
- The Ninth Guest (1934)
- End of the Trail (1936)
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938 serial)
- Mandrake the Magician (1939 serial)
- Overland with Kit Carson (1939 serial)
- Flying G-Men (1939 serial)
- Before I Hang (1940)
- The Lone Prairie (1942)
- Detour (1945)
- Club Havana (1945)
- Rolling Home (1946)
- Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
- Shoot to Kill (1947)
- Half Past Midnight (1948)
- Tough Assignment (1949)
- Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God (1949)
- Miami Exposé (1956)
- Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
References
- ↑ Reid, John Howard (31 October 2006). Great Hollywood Westerns: Classic Pictures, Must-See Movies and 'b' Films. Lulu.com. pp. 137–. ISBN 978-1-4303-0968-0. Retrieved 25 November 2012.