B. Reeves Eason, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

B. Reeves Eason

American film director, actor

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1886

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1956

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.