B. Reeves Eason

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

William Reeves Eason (Nova York, 2 d’octubre de 1886 - Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, 9 de juny de 1956), conegut com B. Reeves Eason, va ser un director de cinema, actor i guionista nord-americà. La seva producció com a director es va limitar principalment a westerns i imatges d'acció de baix pressupost, però va ser més conegut com a director de segona unitat i especialista en acció. Va estar casat amb l'actriu Jimsy Maye. Era el pare de l'actor infantil B. Reeves Eason Jr.