B. Reeves Eason Jr.

{{short description|American actor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = B. Reeves Eason Jr.

| image = Reeves Eason, Jr.jpg

| birth_name = Barnes Reeves Eason

| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|11|19}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California

| death_date = {{death date and age|1921|10|25|1914|11|19}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1916–1921

| other_names = Master Breezy Reeves Jr.
Universal's Littlest Cowboy
Breezy Eason Jr.

}}

Barnes Reeves Eason[http://allanellenberger.com/breezy-eason-jr-at-hollywood-forever/ HOLLYWOODLAND » Blog Archive » “Breezy” Eason, Jr. at Hollywood Forever…] (November 19, 1914 – October 25, 1921), better known by his screen name B. Reeves Eason Jr. was an American silent film 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{{cite journal |title=Plays and Players |journal=Photoplay |volume=21 |issue=2 |page=96 |publisher=Photoplay Publishers Company |location=New York City |date=January 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic |accessdate=2014-12-29}} shortly after the filming of the Harry Carey silent western The Fox (1921) had been completed. He was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and was one of the first actors to be buried there.

Filmography

See also

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Bibliography

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