What is B. Reeves Eason's middle name?
Reeves
B. Reeves Eason date of birth:
October 2, 1886
How old was B. Reeves Eason when died?
69
Where was B. Reeves Eason born?
New York City, New York
When did B. Reeves Eason die?
June 9, 1956
How tall is B. Reeves Eason?
5' 8" (173 cm)
What is B. Reeves Eason nationality?
American
What is B. Reeves Eason's occupation?
Director, actor, screenwriter, second-unit director, assistant director
Short Biography
B. Reeves Eason (October 2, 1886 – June 9, 1956) 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) that Eason directed, 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.