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