Biography
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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.
Gender
Male
IMDb Id
nm0247484
Known For Department
Directing
Also Known As
William Reaves Eason
,
William Eason
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B. Reaves 'Breezy' Eason
,
B. Reaves Eason
,
Breezy Eason
,
Reaves Eason
,
Reeves Eason
,
William Reeves Eason
,
'Breezy' Reeves Eason
,
Eason B. Reaves
,
Reeves Easton
,
Breezy Easton
,
Date of Birth
1886-10-02
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death
1956-06-09
