B. Reeves Eason
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Reeves Eason (October 2, 1886 – June 9, 1956), known as B. Reeves Eason, was an American film director, actor and screenwriter. His directorial output was limited mainly to low-budget westerns and action pictures, but it was as a second-unit director and action specialist that he was best known. He was famous for staging spectacular battle scenes in war films and action scenes in large-budget westerns, but he acquired the nickname "Breezy" for his "breezy" attitude towards safety while staging his sequences—during the famous cavalry charge at the end of Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), so many horses were killed or injured so severely that they had to be euthanized that both the public and Hollywood itself were outraged, resulting in the selection of the American Humane Society by the beleaguered studios to provide representatives on the sets of all films using animals to ensure their safety.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1886-10-02 · New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- 1956-06-09
Known for
- Duel in the Sun (1946) — Second Unit Director
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941) — Second Unit Director
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) — Stunt Coordinator
- The Spanish Main (1945) — Second Unit Director
- Sharad of Atlantis (1936) — Director
- Give Me Liberty (1936) — Director
- The Phantom Empire (1935) — Director
- The Shadow of the Eagle (1932) — Director
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952) — Second Unit Director
- The Tanks Are Coming (1941) — Director
- The Phantom (1943) — Director
- Service with the Colors (1940) — Director
- Rimfire (1949) — Director
- Radio Ranch (1940) — Director
- King of the Wild (1931) — Director
- Murder in the Big House (1942) — Director