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 without 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, w ...
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 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
Harry Carey silent
western
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''
The Fox'' (1921) had been completed. He was interred at
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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and was one of the first actors to be buried there.
Filmography
* ''
Gold and the Woman'' (1916)
* ''
Nine-Tenths of the Law'' (1918)
* ''
The Kid and the Cowboy'' (1919)
* ''The Thunderbolt'' (1919)
* ''
Two Kinds of Love'' (1920)
* ''
Pink Tights'' (1920)
* ''The Lone Ranger'' (1920)
* ''
Blue Streak McCoy'' (1920)
* ''
His Nose in the Book'' (1920)
* ''
Sure Fire'' (1921)
* ''
The Fox'' (1921)
* ''
The Big Adventure'' (1921)
See also
*
Paul Kelly
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Bobby Connelly
Robert Joseph Connelly (April 4, 1909 – July 5, 1922) was an American child actor of silent films. He is one of the first male child stars of American motion pictures beginning his career in 1913 at the age of four.
Career
Connelly's parents w ...
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Jackie Coogan
John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's role in Charlie Chaplin's film ''The Kid (1921 film), The Kid'' (1921) made him one o ...
References
Bibliography
* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 67–68.
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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
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Accidental child deaths