James Craven (born Titus Benjamin Meigs in Malone, New York; c. 1902–1991) was a Canadian-American actor. He played a wide variety of roles and has a minimum of 98 film and television credits including the TV show The Adventures of Kit Carson, as well as the classic motion picture Johnny Belinda and the popular movie serials The Green Archer, Captain Midnight, and King of the Rocket Men. Craven's own professional resumé does not include the year or place of his birth. Serial historian Daniel J. Neyer has determined that Craven "made frequent transatlantic crossings from the year of his birth up to 1923. He is identified as a 'Canadian actor' in a 1935 London marriage notice, and only became a naturalized American citizen in 1943." Throughout the 1930s he performed on Canadian and British stages. Craven arrived in Hollywood in 1939 and was signed by Columbia Pictures. Producer Larry Darmour cast him in the 1940 serial ()