B. Reeves Eason

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Sharad of Atlantis (1936) — Director
2. Give Me Liberty (1936) — Director
3. The Phantom Empire (1935) — Director
4. The Shadow of the Eagle (1932) — Director
5. The Tanks Are Coming (1941) — Director
6. The Phantom (1943) — Director
7. Service with the Colors (1940) — Director
8. Radio Ranch (1940) — Director
9. Rimfire (1949) — Director
10. King of the Wild (1931) — Director
11. Murder in the Big House (1942) — Director
12. Darkest Africa (1936) — Director
13. Meet the Fleet (1940) — Director
14. March On, Marines (1940) — Director
15. The Last of the Mohicans (1932) — Director
16. The Sign of the Claw (1926) — Director
17. The Miracle Rider (1935) — Director
18. The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935) — Director
19. Call of The Yukon (1938) — Director
20. Wagon Wheels West (1943) — Director
21. Prairie Thunder (1937) — Director
22. The Kid Comes Back (1938) — Director
23. Oklahoma Outlaws (1943) — Director
24. Men of the Sky (1942) — Director
25. Red River Valley (1936) — Director
26. The Galloping Ghost (1931) — Director
27. Pink Tights (1920) — Director
28. Pony Express Days (1940) — Director
29. Soldiers in White (1942) — Director
30. Spy Ship (1942) — Director
31. Truck Busters (1943) — Director
32. The Vanishing Legion (1931) — Director
33. The Honor of the Press (1932) — Director
34. Sergeant Murphy (1938) — Director
35. Hollywood Mystery (1934) — Director
36. The Law of the Wild (1934) — Director
37. Mystery Mountain (1934) — Director
38. Murder on the Waterfront (1943) — Director
39. The Fighting Marines (1935) — Director
40. Troopers Three (1930) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Rattler's Hiss (1920)
2. The Danger Rider (1928) — Tucson Joe
3. Hell Hath No Fury (1917)
4. Two Kinds of Love (1920) — Dorgan
5. Gold and the Woman (1916)