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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.

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1966Aged 80

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1953Aged 67

Tranquil Village
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Singapore Story
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1952Aged 66

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1949Aged 63

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1947Aged 61

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1946Aged 60

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1945Aged 59

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1944Aged 58

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1943Aged 57

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Mountain Fighters
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1942Aged 56

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1941Aged 55

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Second Unit Director

1940Aged 54

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Young America Flies
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1939Aged 53

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1938Aged 52

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1937Aged 51

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1936Aged 50

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1935Aged 49

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Screenplay
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Assistant Director

1934Aged 48

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1933Aged 47

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Revenge at Monte Carlo
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Dance Hall Hostess
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1932Aged 46

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Heart Punch
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1931Aged 45

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1930Aged 44

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Story
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1929Aged 43

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1928Aged 42

Tucson Joe
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A Society Cowboy
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1927Aged 41

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1926Aged 40

The Test of Donald Norton
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1925Aged 39

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1924Aged 38

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1921Aged 35

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1920Aged 34

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Dorgan
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Scenario Writer
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Producer

1919Aged 33

The Fighting Heart
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The Crow
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1917Aged 31

Hell Hath No Fury
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