{{short description|American actor (1890-1951)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Lew Meehan | image = Walloping Wallace lobby card.jpg | caption = Lobby card for ''Walloping Wallace'' (1924) with Lew Meehan and Buddy Roosevelt | birth_date = {{birth date|1890|9|7}} | birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1951|8|10|1890|9|7}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | years_active = 1921-1947 | occupation = Actor }}

'''James Lew Meehan'''<ref name="am" /> (September 7, 1890 &ndash; August 10, 1951) was an American film actor.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lew+Meehan%22+actor&pg=PA254|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|first=George A.|last=Katchmer|date=May 20, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609058|access-date=April 19, 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref>

Meehan appeared in more than 200 films between 1921 and 1947.{{Citation needed |date=June 2021}} He was often the main villain in silent Westerns, but in sound films he was usually an "anonymous henchman".<ref name="am">{{cite web |last1=Wollstein |first1=Hans J. |title=Lew Meehan |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/lew-meehan-p48200 |website=AllMovie |access-date=June 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618152614/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/lew-meehan-p48200 |archive-date=June 18, 2021}}</ref> Meehan was born in Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.

Meehan's daughter, Jean Stratton, was an actress.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parsons |first1=Louella O. |title=Clara Bow Planning Comeback in September |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87214112/the-sacramento-bee/ |access-date=October 16, 2021 |work=The Sacramento Bee |agency=Universal Service, Inc. |date=July 25, 1931 |page=19|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} * ''Crossing Trails'' (1921) * ''By Right of Birth'' (1921) * ''Blazing Arrows'' (1922) * ''The Radio King'' (1922) * ''Silver Spurs'' (1922) * ''Daring Danger'' (1922) * ''Back Fire'' (1922) * ''The Greatest Menace'' (1923) * ''Ridgeway of Montana'' (1924) * ''Thundering Romance'' (1924) * ''Walloping Wallace'' (1924) * ''The Eagle's Claw'' (1924) * ''West of Hot Dog'' (1924) * ''Full Speed'' (1925) * ''The Empty Saddle'' (1925) * ''Red Blood'' (1925) * ''Fighting Luck'' (1925) * ''White Thunder'' (1925) * ''Lord Jim'' (1925) * ''Beyond All Odds'' (1926) * ''The Road Agent'' (1926) * ''The Man from Oklahoma'' (1926) * ''Hair-Trigger Baxter'' (1926) * ''The Desperate Game'' (1926) * ''The Desert's Toll'' (1926) * ''Born to Battle'' (1927) * ''Thunderbolt's Tracks'' (1927) * ''Two-Gun of the Tumbleweed'' (1927) * ''Should Tall Men Marry?'' (1928) * ''The Sky Rider'' (1928) * ''The Power of the Press'' (1928) * ''Idaho Red'' (1929) * ''The Pride of Pawnee'' (1929) * ''Bad Men's Money'' (1929) * ''The White Outlaw'' (1929) * ''Silent Sentinel'' (1929) * ''Thunderbolt'' (1929) * ''Playing Around'' (1930) * ''Firebrand Jordan'' (1930) * ''The Light of Western Stars'' (1930) * ''The Virtuous Sin'' (1930) * ''New Moon'' (1930) * ''Cimarron'' (1931) * ''Range Feud'' (1931) * ''Air Eagles'' (1931) * ''West of Cheyenne'' (1931) * ''The Fighting Fool'' (1932) * ''Forbidden Trail'' (1932) * ''Law and Order'' (1932) * ''Shopworn'' (1932) * ''Thirteen Women'' (1932) * ''The Wolf Dog'' (1933, Serial) * ''The World Changes'' (1933) * ''Unknown Valley'' (1933) * ''Among the Missing'' (1934) * ''The Man Trailer'' (1934) * ''Wagon Wheels'' (1934) * ''Frontier Days'' (1934) * ''Mystery Mountain'' (1934, Serial) * ''The Desert Trail'' (1935) * ''Outlaw Rule'' (1935) * ''Wagon Trail'' (1935) * ''The Phantom Cowboy'' (1935) * ''Lightning Triggers'' (1935) * ''The Last of the Clintons'' (1935) * ''Five Bad Men'' (1935) * ''Annie Oakley'' (1935) * ''The Lawless Nineties'' (1936) * ''Feud of the West'' (1936) * ''Oh, Susanna!'' (1936) * ''Hopalong Cassidy Returns'' (1936) * ''Melody of the Plains'' (1937) * ''Westbound Mail'' (1937) * ''Lightnin' Crandall'' (1937) * ''Trail of Vengeance'' (1937) * ''The Red Rope'' (1937) * ''Trapped'' (1937) * ''Ridin' the Lone Trail'' (1937) * ''Arizona Gunfighter'' (1937) * ''Thunder in the Desert'' (1938) * ''The Feud Maker'' (1938) * ''Prairie Moon'' (1938) * ''The Shadow'' (1940, Serial) * ''The Return of Frank James'' (1940) * ''Roaring Frontiers'' (1941) * ''The Utah Kid'' (1944) {{div col end}}

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==External links== {{commons category|Lew Meehan}} *{{IMDb name|id=0576055|name=Lew Meehan}}

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