Biography
John J. Mescall was an American cinematographer. He worked on silent films including Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) and was active at Universal Pictures in the 1930s, where he frequently collaborated with director James Whale.
His credits include The Invisible Man (1933, uncredited), The Black Cat (1934), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Show Boat (1936) and The Road Back (1937). Later films include When Tomorrow Comes (1939), Dark Waters (1944) and Take a Letter, Darling (1942), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography (Black-and-White).
Mescall was born on 10 January 1899 in Litchfield, Illinois, and died on 10 February 1962 in Los Angeles County, California.
