Directing

B. Reeves Eason

Born 1886-10-02

New York City, New York, USA

Department: Directing

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.

1952

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (133 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Bat Men of Africa	Director	Movie	1966
Singapore Story	Director	Movie	1953
Tranquil Village	Director	Movie	1953
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair	Second Unit Director	Movie	1952
Rimfire	Director	Movie	1949
Black Gold	Second Unit Director	Movie	1947
Duel in the Sun	Second Unit Director	Movie	1946
North of the Border	Director	Movie	1946
'Neath Canadian Skies	Director	Movie	1946
The Spanish Main	Second Unit Director	Movie	1945
The Desert Hawk	Director	Movie	1944
The Phantom	Director	Movie	1943
Wagon Wheels West	Director	Movie	1943
Murder on the Waterfront	Director	Movie	1943
Oklahoma Outlaws	Director	Movie	1943
Mountain Fighters	Director	Movie	1943
Truck Busters	Director	Movie	1943
Men of the Sky	Director	Movie	1942
Spy Ship	Director	Movie	1942
Murder in the Big House	Director	Movie	1942
Soldiers in White	Director	Movie	1942
They Died with Their Boots On	Second Unit Director	Movie	1941
The Tanks Are Coming	Director	Movie	1941
Wings of Steel	Director	Movie	1941
Meet the Fleet	Director	Movie	1940
March On, Marines	Director	Movie	1940
Service with the Colors	Director	Movie	1940
Pony Express Days	Director	Movie	1940
Young America Flies	Director	Movie	1940
Radio Ranch	Director	Movie	1940
Mountain Rhythm	Director	Movie	1939
Blue Montana Skies	Director	Movie	1939
Call of The Yukon	Director	Movie	1938
The Daredevil Drivers	Director	Movie	1938
The Kid Comes Back	Director	Movie	1938
Sergeant Murphy	Director	Movie	1938
Prairie Thunder	Director	Movie	1937
Empty Holsters	Director	Movie	1937
Land Beyond the Law	Director	Movie	1937
Give Me Liberty	Director	Movie	1936
Sharad of Atlantis	Director	Movie	1936
Red River Valley	Director	Movie	1936
Darkest Africa	Director	Movie	1936
The Singing Vagabond	Assistant Director	Movie	1935
The Fighting Marines	Director	Movie	1935
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty	Director	Movie	1935
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty	Screenplay	Movie	1935
The Miracle Rider	Director	Movie	1935
The Phantom Empire	Director	Movie	1935
Mystery Mountain	Director	Movie	1934
The Law of the Wild	Director	Movie	1934
Hollywood Mystery	Director	Movie	1934
Neighbors' Wives	Director	Movie	1933
Dance Hall Hostess	Director	Movie	1933
Revenge at Monte Carlo	Director	Movie	1933
Alimony Madness	Director	Movie	1933
Heart Punch	Director	Movie	1932
Cornered	Director	Movie	1932
The Honor of the Press	Director	Movie	1932
The Last of the Mohicans	Director	Movie	1932
The Sunset Trail	Director	Movie	1932
The Shadow of the Eagle	Director	Movie	1932
The Galloping Ghost	Director	Movie	1931
The Vanishing Legion	Director	Movie	1931
King of the Wild	Director	Movie	1931
Spurs	Director	Movie	1930
Spurs	Writer	Movie	1930
Trigger Tricks	Director	Movie	1930
Trigger Tricks	Writer	Movie	1930
Roaring Ranch	Story	Movie	1930
Roaring Ranch	Director	Movie	1930
Troopers Three	Director	Movie	1930
Riding for Fame	Director	Movie	1929
Riding for Fame	Writer	Movie	1929
The Winged Horseman	Director	Movie	1929
The Lariat Kid	Director	Movie	1929
The Danger Rider	Tucson Joe	Movie	1928
Clearing the Trail	Director	Movie	1928
A Society Cowboy	Director	Movie	1928
The Flyin' Cowboy	Director	Movie	1928
The Flyin' Cowboy	Writer	Movie	1928
A Trick of Hearts	Director	Movie	1928
Galloping Fury	Director	Movie	1927
Painted Ponies	Director	Movie	1927
The Prairie King	Director	Movie	1927
The Denver Dude	Director	Movie	1927
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut	Director	Movie	1927
Lone Hand Saunders	Director	Movie	1926
The Sign of the Claw	Director	Movie	1926
The Test of Donald Norton	Director	Movie	1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Stunt Coordinator	Movie	1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Second Unit Director	Movie	1925
A Fight to the Finish	Director	Movie	1925
The New Champion	Director	Movie	1925
Fighting the Flames	Director	Movie	1925
Fighting Youth	Director	Movie	1925
The Texas Bearcat	Director	Movie	1925
The Shadow on the Wall	Director	Movie	1925
Trigger Fingers	Director	Movie	1924
Women First	Director	Movie	1924
Tiger Thompson	Director	Movie	1924
Treasure Canyon	Director	Movie	1924
His Last Race	Director	Movie	1923
Around the World in 18 Days	Director	Movie	1923
The Lone Hand	Director	Movie	1922
Roughshod	Director	Movie	1922
Pardon My Nerve!	Director	Movie	1922
The Fire Eater	Director	Movie	1921
Red Courage	Director	Movie	1921
The Big Adventure	Director	Movie	1921
Colorado	Director	Movie	1921
Two Kinds of Love	Dorgan	Movie	1920
Two Kinds of Love	Director	Movie	1920
Two Kinds of Love	Scenario Writer	Movie	1920
Pink Tights	Director	Movie	1920
Pink Tights	Producer	Movie	1920
Blue Streak McCoy	Director	Movie	1920
Human Stuff	Director	Movie	1920
Human Stuff	Scenario Writer	Movie	1920
The Texas Kid	Director	Movie	1920
The Texas Kid	Scenario Writer	Movie	1920
The Rattler's Hiss	Self / Appearance	Movie	1920
The Rattler's Hiss	Director	Movie	1920
Held Up for the Makin's	Director	Movie	1920
Hair Trigger Stuff	Director	Movie	1920
The Tell-Tale Wire	Director	Movie	1919
The Crow	Director	Movie	1919
The Jack of Hearts	Director	Movie	1919
The Four-Bit Man	Director	Movie	1919
The Fighting Heart	Director	Movie	1919
Hell Hath No Fury	Self / Appearance	Movie	1917
Gold and the Woman	Self / Appearance	Movie	1916
The Poet of the Peaks	Director	Movie	1915