Benjamin H. Kline

Benjamin Harrison Kline (July 11, 1894 – January 7, 1974) 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.

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 serial The Galloping Ghost in 1931.

As cinematographer

 * Hitchin' Posts (1920)
 * After Your Own Heart (1921)
 * The Rough Diamond (1921)
 * Trailin' (1921)
 * The Lady from Longacre (1921)
 * The Night Horsemen (1921)
 * A Ridin' Romeo (1921)
 * Hands Off! (1921)
 * Sky High (1922)
 * Chasing the Moon (1922)
 * Up and Going (1922)
 * Wolf Law (1922)
 * McGuire of the Mounted (1923)
 * The Six-Fifty (1923)
 * The Untameable (1923)
 * Pure Grit (1923)
 * The Scarlet West (1925)
 * Red Clay (1927)
 * Sensation Seekers (1927)
 * Painted Faces (1929)
 * Peacock Alley (1930)
 * Call of the West (1930)
 * The Fighting Fool (1932)
 * The Last Man (1932)
 * War Correspondent (1932)
 * Texas Cyclone (1932)
 * The California Trail (1933)
 * Police Car 17 (1933)
 * The Wrecker (1933)
 * Shadows of Sing Sing (1933)
 * When Strangers Marry (1933)
 * East of Fifth Avenue (1933)
 * Hold the Press (1933)
 * The Ninth Guest (1934)
 * The Hell Cat (1934)
 * The Prescott Kid (1934)
 * The Man Trailer (1934)
 * The Line-Up (1934)
 * Men of the Hour (1935)
 * Guard That Girl (1935)
 * The Revenge Rider (1935)
 * Riding Wild (1935)
 * End of the Trail (1936)
 * West of Cheyenne (1938)
 * South of Arizona (1938)
 * The Colorado Trail (1938)
 * The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938 serial)
 * Call of the Rockies (1938)
 * Law of the Plains (1938)
 * Flying G-Men (1939 serial)
 * Mandrake the Magician (1939 serial)
 * Overland with Kit Carson (1939 serial)
 * The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
 * Scandal Sheet (1939)
 * Cafe Hostess (1940)
 * Nobody's Children (1940)
 * Before I Hang (1940)
 * Roaring Frontiers (1941)
 * Hands Across the Rockies (1941)
 * The Lone Prairie (1942)
 * Ever Since Venus (1944)
 * Tahiti Nights (1944)
 * Detour (1945)
 * Rolling Home (1946)
 * Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
 * Strange Journey (1946)
 * I Ring Doorbells (1946)
 * Shoot to Kill (1947)
 * Half Past Midnight (1948)
 * Tough Assignment (1949)
 * The Judge (1949)
 * Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God (1949)
 * Miami Exposé (1956)
 * Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)