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.

Crew

The Flyin' Cowboy

(Director)

The Flyin' Cowboy

(Writer)

The Tanks Are Coming

(Director)

King of the Wild

(Director)

Human Stuff

(Director)

Human Stuff

(Scenario Writer)

Tiger Thompson

(Director)

Hair Trigger Stuff

(Director)

Held Up for the Makin's

(Director)

The Texas Kid

(Director)

The Texas Kid

(Scenario Writer)

The Winged Horseman

(Director)

The Tell-Tale Wire

(Director)

A Trick of Hearts

(Director)

Painted Ponies

(Director)

Riding for Fame

(Director)

Riding for Fame

(Writer)

Clearing the Trail

(Director)

The Fighting Heart

(Director)

Trigger Tricks

(Director)

Trigger Tricks

(Writer)

The Four-Bit Man

(Director)

The Jack of Hearts

(Director)

The Crow

(Director)

The Lone Hand

(Director)

Red River Valley

(Director)

The Big Adventure

(Director)

The Lariat Kid

(Director)

Sharad of Atlantis

(Director)

Spy Ship

(Director)

Truck Busters

(Director)

Men with Steel Faces

(Director)

The Vanishing Legion

(Director)

Rimfire

(Director)

The Last of the Mohicans

(Director)

The Galloping Ghost

(Director)

Murder in the Big House

(Director)

The Honor of the Press

(Director)

Sergeant Murphy

(Director)

The Sign of the Claw

(Director)

Hollywood Mystery

(Director)

Mystery Mountain

(Director)

The Law of the Wild

(Director)

The Rattler's Hiss

(Director)

The Phantom Empire

(Director)

The Miracle Rider

(Director)

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

(Director)

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

(Screenplay)

Call of The Yukon

(Director)

Murder on the Waterfront

(Director)

The Fighting Marines

(Director)

Darkest Africa

(Director)

The Heart Punch

(Director)

Pink Tights

(Director)

Black Gold

(Second Unit Director)

Troopers Three

(Director)

Land Beyond the Law

(Director)

The Sunset Trail

(Director)

Mountain Rhythm

(Director)

The Daredevil Drivers

(Director)

Meet the Fleet

(Director)

Colorado

(Director)

The Fire Eater

(Director)

Roaring Ranch

(Story)

The Prairie King

(Director)

Spurs

(Director)

Spurs

(Writer)

The Denver Dude

(Director)

Wagon Wheels West

(Director)

Service with the Colors

(Director)

March On, Marines

(Director)

'Neath Canadian Skies

(Director)

North of the Border

(Director)

Treasure Canyon

(Director)

Fighting Youth

(Director)

Pardon My Nerve!

(Director)

Prairie Thunder

(Director)

Empty Holsters

(Director)

Galloping Fury

(Director)

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

(Director)

Roughshod

(Director)

Blue Montana Skies

(Director)

The Kid Comes Back

(Director)

The Singing Vagabond

(Assistant Director)

The Shadow on the Wall

(Director)

The Phantom

(Director)

The Test of Donald Norton

(Director)

They Died with Their Boots On

(Second Unit Director)

Alimony Madness

(Director)

Pony Express Days

(Director)

Give Me Liberty

(Director)

Cornered

(Director)

The Shadow of the Eagle

(Director)

Tranquil Village

(Director)

Singapore Story

(Director)

Wings of Steel

(Director)

Roaring Ranch

(Director)

Soldiers in White

(Director)

Red Courage

(Director)

Young America Flies

(Director)

Oklahoma Outlaws

(Director)

The Spanish Main

(Second Unit Director)

The Desert Hawk

(Director)

Blue Streak McCoy

(Director)

His Last Race

(Director)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

(Stunt Coordinator)

Men of the Sky

(Director)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

(Second Unit Director)

Around the World in 18 Days

(Director)

Pink Tights

(Producer)

Mountain Fighters

(Director)

The Poet of the Peaks

(Director)

Bat Men of Africa

(Director)