Biography
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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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Crew
Crew Credits
Bat Men of Africa
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1966
Singapore Story
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1953
Tranquil Village
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1953
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Role: Second Unit Director
MOVIE • 1952
Rimfire
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1949
Black Gold
Role: Second Unit Director
MOVIE • 1947
Duel in the Sun
Role: Second Unit Director
MOVIE • 1946
North of the Border
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1946
'Neath Canadian Skies
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1946
The Spanish Main
Role: Second Unit Director
MOVIE • 1945
The Desert Hawk
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1944
The Phantom
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Wagon Wheels West
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Murder on the Waterfront
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Oklahoma Outlaws
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Mountain Fighters
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Truck Busters
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Men of the Sky
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1942
Spy Ship
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1942
Murder in the Big House
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1942