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{{short description|American film director, actor}}
{{Short description|American film director, actor and screenwriter (1886–1956)}}
{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = B. Reeves Eason
| name = B. Reeves Eason
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| years_active = 1914–1950
| years_active = 1914–1950
| spouse = Jimsy Maye
| spouse = Jimsy Maye
| children = [[B. Reeves Eason Jr.]]
| children = 1, including [[B. Reeves Eason Jr.|Barnes]]
}}
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== Career ==
== Career ==
Born in Massachusetts, Eason studied engineering at the University of California.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |last1=Goodman |first1=Ezra |title=Step right up and call him 'Breezy' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/04/19/archives/step-right-up-and-call-him-breezy-but-its-mr-b-reeves-eason-when.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=July 7, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=April 19, 1942 |page=X 3}}</ref> Eason directed 150 films and starred in almost 100 films over his career. Eason's career transcended into sound and he directed film serials such as ''[[The Miracle Rider]]'' starring [[Tom Mix]] in 1935. He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on ''[[Ben-Hur (1925 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' (1925), the climactic charge in ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)|Charge of the Light Brigade]]'' (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939).
Born in Massachusetts, Eason studied engineering at the University of California.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |last1=Goodman |first1=Ezra |title=Step right up and call him 'Breezy' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/04/19/archives/step-right-up-and-call-him-breezy-but-its-mr-b-reeves-eason-when.html |access-date=July 7, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=April 19, 1942 |page=X 3}}</ref> Eason directed 150 films and starred in almost 100 films over his career. Eason's career transcended into sound and he directed film serials such as ''[[The Miracle Rider]]'' starring [[Tom Mix]] in 1935. He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on ''[[Ben-Hur (1925 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' (1925), the climactic charge in ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)|Charge of the Light Brigade]]'' (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939).


== Family and personal life ==
== Family and personal life ==
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* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[The Exile of Bar-K Ranch]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[Drawing the Line (film)|Drawing the Line]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[Drawing the Line (film)|Drawing the Line]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[A Question of Honor]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[A Question of Honor (1915 film)|A Question of Honor]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[The Spirit of Adventure]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[The Spirit of Adventure]]''
* [[1915 in film|1915]] : ''[[In Trust]]''
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* [[1925 in film|1925]] : ''[[A Fight to the Finish (1925 film)|A Fight to the Finish]]''
* [[1925 in film|1925]] : ''[[A Fight to the Finish (1925 film)|A Fight to the Finish]]''
* [[1925 in film|1925]] : ''[[The Shadow on the Wall]]''
* [[1925 in film|1925]] : ''[[The Shadow on the Wall (1925 film)|The Shadow on the Wall]]''
* [[1926 in film|1926]] : ''[[The Test of Donald Norton (1926 film)|The Test of Donald Norton]]''
* [[1926 in film|1926]] : ''[[The Test of Donald Norton (1926 film)|The Test of Donald Norton]]''
* [[1926 in film|1926]] : ''[[The Sign of the Claw]]''
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* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1932 serial)|The Last of the Mohicans]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[The Honor of the Press]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[The Honor of the Press]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[Midnight Morals]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[Cornered (1932 film)|Cornered]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[Cornered (1932 film)|Cornered]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[Heart Punch]]''
* [[1932 in film|1932]] : ''[[Heart Punch]]''
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* [[1938 in film|1938]] : ''[[Call of the Yukon]]''
* [[1939 in film|1939]] : ''[[Blue Montana Skies]]''
* [[1939 in film|1939]] : ''[[Blue Montana Skies]]''
* [[1939 in film|1939]] : ''[[Mountain Rhythm]]''
* [[1939 in film|1939]] : ''[[Mountain Rhythm (1939 film)|Mountain Rhythm]]''
* [[1940 in film|1940]] : ''[[Men with Steel Faces]]''
* [[1940 in film|1940]] : ''[[Men with Steel Faces]]''
* [[1940 in film|1940]] : ''[[Pony Express Days]]''
* [[1940 in film|1940]] : ''[[Pony Express Days]]''
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* [[1949 in film|1949]] : ''[[Rimfire (film)|Rimfire]]''
* [[1949 in film|1949]] : ''[[Rimfire (film)|Rimfire]]''
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* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[His Faith in Humanity]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[Jail Birds]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[Jail Birds]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[In the Open]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[In the Open (1914 film)|In the Open]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[Sir Galahad of Twilight]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[Sir Galahad of Twilight]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[Redbird Wins]]''
* [[1914 in film|1914]] : ''[[Redbird Wins]]''
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* [[1928 in film|1928]] : ''[[The Danger Rider (1928 film)|The Danger Rider]]'' : ''Tucson Joe''
* [[1928 in film|1928]] : ''[[The Danger Rider (1928 film)|The Danger Rider]]'' : ''Tucson Joe''
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=== Screenwriter ===
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* [[1930 in film|1930]] : ''[[Spurs (film)|Spurs]]''
* [[1934 in film|1934]] : ''[[The Law of the Wild]]'' (''[[Le Démon noir]]'')
* [[1934 in film|1934]] : ''[[The Law of the Wild]]'' serial (''Le Démon noir'')
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Latest revision as of 09:25, 20 July 2024

B. Reeves Eason
Eason (left) showing screenwriters Lucien Hubbard and Douglas Z. Doty film from the Western Two Kinds of Love (1920)
Born
William Reeves Eason

(1886-10-02)October 2, 1886
Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJune 9, 1956(1956-06-09) (aged 69)
Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Other namesB. Reaves Eason
Breezy Eason
Reeves Eason
"Breezy" Reeves Eason
Occupations
  • Director
  • actor
  • screenwriter
  • second-unit director
  • assistant director
Years active1914–1950
SpouseJimsy Maye
Children1, including Barnes

William Reeves Eason (October 2, 1886 – June 9, 1956),[1] 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.

Career

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Born in Massachusetts, Eason studied engineering at the University of California.[2] Eason directed 150 films and starred in almost 100 films over his career. Eason's career transcended into sound and he directed film serials such as The Miracle Rider starring Tom Mix in 1935. He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on Ben-Hur (1925), the climactic charge in Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Family and personal life

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His son, B. Reeves Eason Jr., was a child actor who appeared in 12 films, including Nine-Tenths 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.

Death

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On June 9, 1956, Eason died of a heart attack at the age of 69. He is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

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Director

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Actor

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Screenwriter

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References

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  1. ^ Eugene Michael Vazzana (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland. pp. 151–. ISBN 978-0-7864-1059-0.
  2. ^ Goodman, Ezra (April 19, 1942). "Step right up and call him 'Breezy'". The New York Times. p. X 3. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
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