Directing
B. Reeves Eason
EN, MS, CN, XX cinema · 120 credits
Born
2 October 1886
Died
9 June 1956 (aged 69)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as William Reaves Eason · William Eason · B. Reaves 'Breezy' Eason · B. Reaves Eason · Breezy Eason · Reaves 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
Filmography
Bat Men of Africa
Director
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Second Unit Director
Rimfire
Director
Black Gold
Second Unit Director
North of the Border
Director
Duel in the Sun
Second Unit Director
The Spanish Main
Second Unit Director
The Desert Hawk
Director
Truck Busters
Director
Wagon Wheels West
Director
The Phantom
Director
Oklahoma Outlaws
Director
Spy Ship
Director
Soldiers in White
Director
Men of the Sky
Director
The Tanks Are Coming
Director
They Died with Their Boots On
Second Unit Director
Wings of Steel
Director
Radio Ranch
Director
Meet the Fleet
Director
March On, Marines
Director
Pony Express Days
Director
Young America Flies
Director
Mountain Rhythm
Director
Blue Montana Skies
Director
Sergeant Murphy
Director
Call of The Yukon
Director
The Kid Comes Back
Director
Land Beyond the Law
Director
Prairie Thunder
Director
Empty Holsters
Director
Red River Valley
Director
Sharad of Atlantis
Director
Darkest Africa
Director
Give Me Liberty
Director
The Phantom Empire
Director
The Miracle Rider
Director
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Director, Screenplay
The Fighting Marines
Director
The Singing Vagabond
Assistant Director
Hollywood Mystery
Director
Mystery Mountain
Director
The Law of the Wild
Director
Alimony Madness
Director
Neighbors' Wives
Director
The Sunset Trail
Director
Cornered
Director
King of the Wild
Director
The Vanishing Legion
Director
The Galloping Ghost
Director
Trigger Tricks
Director, Writer
Troopers Three
Director
Roaring Ranch
Story, Director
Spurs
Director, Writer
The Winged Horseman
Director
Riding for Fame
Director, Writer
The Lariat Kid
Director
The Danger Rider
as Tucson Joe
The Flyin' Cowboy
Director, Writer
A Trick of Hearts
Director
Clearing the Trail
Director
Painted Ponies
Director
The Prairie King
Director
The Denver Dude
Director
Galloping Fury
Director
The Sign of the Claw
Director
Lone Hand Saunders
Director
Fighting Youth
Director
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
The Texas Bearcat
Director
The New Champion
Director
Tiger Thompson
Director
Treasure Canyon
Director
Trigger Fingers
Director
Women First
Director
His Last Race
Director
The Lone Hand
Director
Pardon My Nerve!
Director
Roughshod
Director
The Big Adventure
Director
Colorado
Director
The Fire Eater
Director
Red Courage
Director
The Rattler's Hiss
Actor, Director
Two Kinds of Love
as Dorgan, Director, Scenario Writer
Human Stuff
Director, Scenario Writer
Hair Trigger Stuff
Director
The Texas Kid
Director, Scenario Writer
Pink Tights
Director, Producer
Blue Streak McCoy
Director
The Tell-Tale Wire
Director
The Four-Bit Man
Director
The Jack of Hearts
Director
The Crow
1919
The Crow
Director
