B. Reeves Eason Jr.

B. Reeves Eason Jr.
Born	Barnes Reeves Eason November 19, 1914 Los Angeles, California
Died	October 25, 1921 (aged 6) Hollywood, California
Other names	Master Breezy Reeves Jr. Universal's Littlest Cowboy Breezy Eason Jr.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1921

Barnes Reeves Eason,^[1] better known by his screen name B. Reeves Eason Jr. (November 19, 1914 – October 25, 1921), 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 runaway truck outside of his parent's house^[2] 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

• 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)

References

1. HOLLYWOODLAND » Blog Archive » “Breezy” Eason, Jr. at Hollywood Forever…
2. "Plays and Players". Photoplay. New York City: Photoplay Publishers Company. 21 (2): 96. January 1922. Retrieved 2014-12-29.

Bibliography

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

External links

• B. Reeves Eason Jr. at Find a Grave
• B. Reeves Eason Jr. at the Internet Movie Database