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 lowbudget westerns and action pictures but it was as a secondunit director and action specialist that he was best known He was famous for staging spectacular battle scenes in war films and action scenes in largebudget westerns but he acquired the nickname Breezy for his breezy attitude towards safety while staging his sequencesduring 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