George Benjamin Meehan Jr. (1891–1947) was the cinematographer of more than 150 American films.

Life

Meehan 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

Meehan 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

• 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)

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