B. Reeves Eason
Born: 1886-10-02 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1956-06-09
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1966
- Bat Men of Africa ... (Director)
1953
- Singapore Story ... (Director)
- Tranquil Village ... (Director)
1952
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair ... (Second Unit Director)
1949
- Rimfire ... (Director)
1947
- Black Gold ... (Second Unit Director)
1946
- Duel in the Sun ... (Second Unit Director)
- 'Neath Canadian Skies ... (Director)
- North of the Border ... (Director)
1945
- The Spanish Main ... (Second Unit Director)
1944
- The Desert Hawk ... (Director)
1943
- The Phantom ... (Director)
- Truck Busters ... (Director)
- Oklahoma Outlaws ... (Director)
- Wagon Wheels West ... (Director)
- Mountain Fighters ... (Director)
- Murder on the Waterfront ... (Director)
1942
- Men of the Sky ... (Director)
- Spy Ship ... (Director)
- Soldiers in White ... (Director)
- Murder in the Big House ... (Director)
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On ... (Second Unit Director)
- Wings of Steel ... (Director)
- The Tanks Are Coming ... (Director)
1940
- Service with the Colors ... (Director)
- Young America Flies ... (Director)
- Men with Steel Faces ... (Director)
- Meet the Fleet ... (Director)
- Pony Express Days ... (Director)
- March On, Marines ... (Director)
1939
- Mountain Rhythm ... (Director)
- Blue Montana Skies ... (Director)
1938
- Sergeant Murphy ... (Director)
- The Kid Comes Back ... (Director)
- The Daredevil Drivers ... (Director)
- Call of The Yukon ... (Director)
1937
- Empty Holsters ... (Director)
- Prairie Thunder ... (Director)
- Land Beyond the Law ... (Director)
1936
- Sharad of Atlantis ... (Director)
- Darkest Africa ... (Director)
- Give Me Liberty ... (Director)
- Red River Valley ... (Director)
1935
- The Phantom Empire ... (Director)
- The Singing Vagabond ... (Assistant Director)
- The Adventures of Rex and Rinty ... (Director)
- The Miracle Rider ... (Director)
- The Fighting Marines ... (Director)
1934
- Hollywood Mystery ... (Director)
- Mystery Mountain ... (Director)
- The Law of the Wild ... (Director)
1933
- Revenge at Monte Carlo ... (Director)
- Alimony Madness ... (Director)
1932
- The Shadow of the Eagle ... (Director)
- The Heart Punch ... (Director)
- Cornered ... (Director)
- The Last of the Mohicans ... (Director)
- The Honor of the Press ... (Director)
- The Sunset Trail ... (Director)
1931
- King of the Wild ... (Director)
- The Galloping Ghost ... (Director)
- The Vanishing Legion ... (Director)
1930
- Roaring Ranch ... (Story)
- Spurs ... (Director)
- Trigger Tricks ... (Director)
- Troopers Three ... (Director)
1929
- The Lariat Kid ... (Director)
- Riding for Fame ... (Director)
- The Winged Horseman ... (Director)
1928
- Clearing the Trail ... (Director)
- The Flyin' Cowboy ... (Director)
- A Trick of Hearts ... (Director)
- The Danger Rider as Tucson Joe
1927
- Galloping Fury ... (Director)
- The Denver Dude ... (Director)
- Johnny Get Your Hair Cut ... (Director)
- The Prairie King ... (Director)
- Painted Ponies ... (Director)
1926
- The Test of Donald Norton ... (Director)
- The Sign of the Claw ... (Director)
1925
- The Texas Bearcat ... (Director)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Shadow on the Wall ... (Director)
- Fighting Youth ... (Director)
1924
- Trigger Fingers ... (Director)
- Treasure Canyon ... (Director)
- Tiger Thompson ... (Director)
- Women First ... (Director)
1923
- Around the World in 18 Days ... (Director)
- His Last Race ... (Director)
1922
- Roughshod ... (Director)
- The Lone Hand ... (Director)
- Pardon My Nerve! ... (Director)
1921
- Red Courage ... (Director)
- Colorado ... (Director)
- The Fire Eater ... (Director)
- The Big Adventure ... (Director)
1920
- Hair Trigger Stuff ... (Director)
- Blue Streak McCoy ... (Director)
- The Rattler's Hiss
- Held Up for the Makin's ... (Director)
- Human Stuff ... (Director)
- Pink Tights ... (Director)
- The Texas Kid ... (Director)
- Two Kinds of Love as Dorgan
1919
- The Crow ... (Director)
- The Four-Bit Man ... (Director)
- The Fighting Heart ... (Director)
- The Jack of Hearts ... (Director)
- The Tell-Tale Wire ... (Director)
1917
1916
1915
- The Poet of the Peaks ... (Director)