B. Reeves Eason

B. Reeves Eason was an American film director, actor and screenwriter. His directorial output was limited mainly to lowbudget westerns and action pictures, but it was as a secondunit director and action specialist that he was best known. He was famous for staging spectacular battle scenes in war films and action scenes in largebudget westerns, but he acquired the nickname Breezy for his breezy attitude towards safety while staging his sequencesduring the famous cavalry charge at the end of Charge of the Light Brigade 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.

His son, B. Reeves Eason, Jr., was a child actor appeared infilms, including NineTenths of the Law, which Eason, Sr. directed. Born in 1914, he died in 1921 after being hit by a runaway truck outside of his parents home shortly after the filming of the Harry Carey silent western The Fox was completed, just before his seventh birthday.

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