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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.
Sep 3, 2014 · B. Reeves Eason – 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) that Eason directed ...
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Jul 12, 1997 · The second-unit director in charge of the chariot race was B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, known for his genius with action scenes involving horses. He was also known for being ruthless. Vets...
Sergeant Murphy: Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr.. A horse is offered for sale to the cavalry but is rejected as unfit for service. A cavalry private buys the horse, and trains it to be a champion racer.
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Mar 23, 2016 · As it turns out, there is another Ben Hur movie, made in 1925 and filmed in Rome. This film’s director, B. Reeves “Breezy” Eason, was notorious for his horse action sequences and his ruthlessness. Some historians have even said the man had an actual vendetta against horses.
Brief Synopsis. A lowly private becomes attached to a trained military horse. Cast & Crew. Read More. B. Reeves Eason. Director. Ronald Reagan. Private Dennis Reilly. Mary Maguire. Mary Lou Carruthers. Donald Crisp. Col. Carruthers. Ben Hendricks. Corporal Kane. Max Hoffman Jr. Sergeant Connors. Photos & Videos. View All. Film Details. Genre.
B. Reeves Eason. Director: The Adventures of Rex and Rinty. B. Reeves Eason ran a produce business before going into stock and vaudeville. He is known for using 42 cameras to film the spectacular chariot race in the Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman version of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).
