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