 He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on "Ben-Hur" (1925), the climactic charge in "Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).His son, B. Reeves Eason Jr., was a child actor who appeared in 12 films, including "Nine-Tenths of the Law", which Eason, Sr. directed.Born in 1914, he died in 1921 after being hit by a runaway truck outside of his parents' home shortly after the filming of the Harry Carey silent western "The Fox" was completed, just before his seventh birthday.