Benjamin H. Kline
Benjamin Harrison Kline was an American cinematographer and film director. He was the father of Richard H. Kline.
Biography
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 was also a noted cinematographer. Kline also directed eight films during the period of 1931–1945.Partial filmography
As director
Kline directed seven films, one Rin Tin Tin serial and six westerns: The Lightning Warrior Cowboy in the Clouds Sundown Valley Cowboy from Lonesome River Cyclone Prairie Rangers Saddle Leather Law Sagebrush HeroesSources also suggest that Kline replaced B. Reeves Eason as uncredited director of the serial The Galloping Ghost in 1931.
As cinematographer
Hitchin' Posts After Your Own Heart The Rough Diamond Trailin' The Lady from Longacre The Night Horsemen- A Ridin' Romeo Hands Off! Sky High Chasing the Moon Up and Going Wolf Law McGuire of the Mounted The Six-Fifty The Untameable Pure Grit The Scarlet West Red Clay Sensation Seekers Painted Faces Peacock Alley Call of the West The Fighting Fool The Last Man War Correspondent Texas Cyclone The California Trail Police Car 17 The Wrecker Shadows of Sing Sing When Strangers Marry East of Fifth Avenue Hold the Press The Ninth Guest The Hell Cat The Prescott Kid The Man Trailer The Line-Up Men of the Hour Guard That Girl The Revenge Rider Riding Wild End of the Trail Speed to Spare West of Cheyenne South of Arizona The Colorado Trail The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok Call of the Rockies Law of the Plains Flying G-Men Mandrake the Magician Overland with Kit Carson The Man They Could Not Hang Scandal Sheet Cafe Hostess Nobody's Children Before I Hang Roaring Frontiers Hands Across the Rockies The Lone Prairie Ever Since Venus Tahiti Nights Detour Rolling Home Joe Palooka, Champ Strange Journey I Ring Doorbells Shoot to Kill Half Past Midnight Tough Assignment The Judge Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God Miami Exposé
- ''Zombies of Mora Tau''