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B. Reeves Eason is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director and Stunt Coordinator American born on 2 october 1886 at New York City (USA)

B. Reeves Eason

B. Reeves Eason
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Birth name William Reeves Easton
Nationality USA
Birth 2 october 1886 at New York City (USA)
Death 9 june 1956 (at 69 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)

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.

Best films

Gone with the Wind (1939)
(Second Unit Director)
The Spanish Main (1945)
(Second Unit Director)

Usually with

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of B. Reeves Eason (123 films)

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Actor

Nine-Tenths of the Law
Directed by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Actors Mitchell Lewis, B. Reeves Eason, B. Reeves Eason Jr.
Roles 'Red' Adair (as Reeves Eason)