Barnes Reeves Eason (November 19, 1914 – October 25, 1921), better known by his screen name B. Reeves Eason Jr. was an American

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

child actor. Billed as "Master Breezy Reeves Jr." and "Universal's Littlest Cowboy", and later also known as Breezy Eason Jr., he was the son of motion picture director and actor

B. Reeves Eason 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 secon ...

and his wife, the actress Jimsy Maye.

Death

Eason was killed after being hit by a truck outside of his parents' house after running into the street chasing after a ball shortly after the filming of the

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silent

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'' The Fox'' (1921) had been completed. He was interred at

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and was one of the first actors to be buried there.

Filmography

* ''

Gold and the Woman ''Gold and the Woman'' is a 1916 American silent film, silent drama film directed by James Vincent and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost film, lost. Plot Dugald Chandos, an early English settler in America, tries to b ...

'' (1916) * ''

Nine-Tenths of the Law ''Nine-Tenths of the Law'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. Plot As described in a film magazine, Jules Leneau (Lewis) and his wife Jane (Maye), living in a cabin in the Northwoods, are inconsolable after the ...

'' (1918) * '' The Kid and the Cowboy'' (1919) * ''The Thunderbolt'' (1919) * '' Two Kinds of Love'' (1920) * ''

Pink Tights ''Pink Tights'' is a surviving 1920 American silent romantic comedy-drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Gladys Walton. It was produced and released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

'' (1920) * ''The Lone Ranger'' (1920) * ''

Blue Streak McCoy ''Blue Streak McCoy'' is a lost 1920 American silent Western film starring Harry Carey. Cast * Harry Carey as Job McCoy * Lila Leslie as Eileen Marlowe * Charles Arling as Howard Marlowe * B. Reeves Eason, Jr. (credited as Breezy Eason) as Al ...

'' (1920) * ''

His Nose in the Book ''His Nose in the Book'' is a 1920 American short silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and featuring Hoot Gibson. Cast * Hoot Gibson * Mildred Moore * B. Reeves Eason Jr. * Jim Corey * George Field * Tom London credited as Leona ...

'' (1920) * '' Sure Fire'' (1921) * '' The Fox'' (1921) * '' The Big Adventure'' (1921)

References

Bibliography

* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 67–68.

External links

* * 1914 births 1921 deaths 20th-century American male actors American male child actors American male film actors American male silent film actors Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Male actors from Hollywood, Los Angeles Road incident deaths in California {{US-film-actor-1910s-stub Child deaths