Wallace Reid
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Wallace Reid was an American actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". Wallace Reid appeared in several films with his father, and as his career in film flourished, he was soon acting and directing with and for early film mogul Allan Dwan. In 1913, while at Universal Pictures, Reid met and married actress Dorothy Davenport. He was featured as Jeff, the blacksmith, in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and had an uncredited role in Intolerance (1916), both directed by D. W. Griffith; he worked with leading ladies such as Florence Turner, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Elsie Ferguson, and Geraldine Farrar en route to becoming one of Hollywood's major heartthrobs. Already involved with the creation of more than 100 motion picture shorts, Reid was signed by producer Jesse L. Lasky and starred in over 60 films for Lasky's Famous Players film company, which later became Paramount Pictures. Frequently paired with actress Ann Little, his action-hero role as the dashing race-car driver drew young girls and older women alike to theaters to see his daredevil auto thrillers such as The Roaring Road (1919), Double Speed (1920), Excuse My Dust (1920), and Too Much Speed (1921). While en route to a location in Oregon during filming of The Valley of the Giants (1919), Reid was injured in a train wreck near Arcata, California and needed six stitches to close a 3-inch (8 cm) scalp wound. To keep on filming, he was prescribed morphine for relief of his pain and Reid soon became addicted, but kept on working at a frantic pace in films that were growing more physically demanding, and changing from 15–20 minutes in duration to as much as an hour. Reid's morphine addiction worsened at a time when drug rehabilitation programs were non-existent. He died in a sanatorium while attempting to recover.
Known for
Credits
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Rimrock Jones (1918)
as Rimrock Jones
The Test (1914)
as The Poor Man
The Kiss (1913)
as Ralph Walters
The Victoria Cross (1912)
as Lt. Cholmodeley
Thirty Days (1922)
as John Floyd
Hunted Down (1912)
as John Dayton
Playmates (1912)
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
The Animal (1913)
as The Animal
Cross Purposes (1913)
as Wally
Their Masterpiece (1913)
as Jack Sanders
Alias Mike Moran (1919)
as Larry Young
Too Many Millions (1918)
as Walsingham Van Doren
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
as Anatol Spencer
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
Joan the Woman (1916)
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
A Flash in the Dark (1914)
as A Miner
Chumps (1912)
as George - the Denouement
Brothers (1912)
Actor
Believe Me, Xantippe (1918)
as George MacFarland
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Retribution (1913)
as Reid
The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914)
as Samuel Roebuck
The Harvest of Flame (1913)
as The Inspector
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
as Alvarado
Her Doggy (1914)
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
The Skeleton (1914)
as Jack - the Young Husband
The Charm School (1921)
as Austin Bevans
The Picket Guard (1913)
as Sentry
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Doctor (uncredited)
The Gratitude of Wanda (1913)
as Wally
The Lottery Man (1919)
as Jack Wright
The Movie Album (1932)
as (archive footage)
Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
as Self
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Making Good (1912)
as Billy Burns
The Dictator (1922)
as Brooke Travers
The Quack (1914)
as Wallace Rosslyn
The Intruder (1914)
as The Woodsman
Women and War (1913)
as The Boy
Regeneration (1914)
as The Artist
The Gamblers (1912)
as Arthur Ingraham
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel (1921)
as As himself
The Mountaineer (1914)
as Jim - the Mountaineer
The World Apart (1917)
as Bob Fulton
Enoch Arden (1915)
as Walter Fenn
The Guerilla Menace (1913)
as Captain Bruce Douglas
Over the Ledge (1914)
as Bob
Love and the Law (1913)
as Sheriff John Allen
Nan of Music Mountain (1917)
as Henry de Spain
Near To Earth (1913)
Actor
The Leading Lady (1911)
Actor
The Chorus Lady (1915)
as Danny Mallory
The Eye of a God (1913)
as Frank Hammond
The House of Silence (1918)
as Marcel Levington
Old Heidelberg (1915)
as Prince Karl Heinrich
The Valley of the Giants (1919)
as Bryce Cardigan
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
Man's Duty (1913)
as Bill, the Selfish One
The Joke on Yellentown (1914)
Actor
The Love Mask (1916)
as Dan Derring
The Devil Stone (1917)
as Guy Sterling
On the Border (1913)
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
Double Speed (1920)
as 'Speed' Carr
The Yellow Pawn (1916)
as James Weldon
Across the Continent (1922)
as Jimmy Dent
The Fruit of Evil (1914)
Actor
Her Innocent Marriage (1913)
as Will Wayne
The Firefly of France (1918)
as Devereux Bayne
The Spider and Her Web (1914)
Actor
Youth and Jealousy (1913)
as Ben
'Cross the Mexican Line (1914)
as Lt. Wallace
The Golden Chance (1915)
as Roger Manning
A Gypsy Romance (1914)
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
The Seepore Rebellion (1912)
as Extra
Mental Suicide (1913)
as Reid - a Contractor
The Countess Betty's Mine (1914)
as Wallace
Carmen (1915)
as Don Jose
The Niggard (1914)
as Elmer Kent
The Voice of the Viola (1914)
as Wallace
The Source (1918)
as Van Twiller Yard
His Only Son (1912)
as Bob Madden
The Hell Diggers (1921)
as Teddy Darman
At Dawn (1914)
as The Lieutenant
Fortunes of a Composer (1912)
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Women and Roses (1914)
as Wallace
Clarence (1922)
as Clarence Smith
Pirate Gold (1913)
Actor
A Hopi Legend (1913)
Actor
Maria Rosa (1916)
as Andreas
The Man Who Saved the Day (1917)
as John King
The Lost House (1915)
as Ford
Always Audacious (1920)
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
The Wall of Flame (1916)
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Heart of the Hills (1914)
as Dave - the Woodsman
Love's Western Flight (1914)
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
The Spark of Manhood (1913)
as Humphrey Van Weyden
His Mother's Son (1913)
Actor
A Wife on a Wager (1914)
as Wally Bristow
The Den of Thieves (1914)
as Wallace
The Dancin' Fool (1920)
as Sylvester Tibble
The World's Champion (1922)
as William Burroughs
An Indian Outcast (1912)
as Wally, a Cowboy
War (1911)
as Midas
Less Than Kin (1918)
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
The Wheel of Life (1914)
as The Prospector
The Selfish Woman (1916)
as Tom Morley
The Brothers (1913)
as Robert Gregory
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
The Odalisque (1914)
as Curtiss
Excuse My Dust (1920)
as 'Toodles' Walden
You're Fired (1919)
as Billy Deering
The Lightning Bolt (1913)
as Reid
The Prison Without Walls (1917)
as Huntington Babbs
Passing of the Beast (1914)
as Jacques - the Woodsman
The Love Burglar (1919)
as David Strong
An Even Exchange (1913)
as Joe
Fires of Conscience (1914)
as Ray - the Prospector
A Daughter of the Redskins (1912)
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
The Deerslayer (1913)
as Chingachgook
The Hieroglyphic (1912)
Actor
For Her Father's Sins (1914)
as Frank Bell
The Golden Fetter (1917)
as James Roger Ralston
The Phoenix (1910)
as Young Reporter
The Way of a Woman (1914)
as Pierre
Nice People (1922)
as Captain Billy Wade
Don't Tell Everything (1921)
as Cullen Dale
The Roaring Road (1919)
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
Too Much Speed (1921)
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
Early Days in the West (1912)
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
The Craven (1915)
as Bud Walton
The Greater Devotion (1914)
as 'Devotion'
Song Bird of the North (1913)
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
In Love and War (1913)
as David - the Journalist
Big Timber (1917)
as Jack Fife
The Powder Flash of Death (1913)
as Captain Bruce Douglas
The Seventh Son (1912)
as One of the Beecham Brothers
Diamond Cut Diamond (1912)
as Clerk
The Little Country Mouse (1914)
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
A Mother's Influence (1914)
as Wallace Burton - the Son
The Dub (1919)
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
The Hostage (1917)
as Lieutenant Kemper
Her Awakening (1914)
as Bob Turner
The Squaw Man's Son (1917)
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
Forever (1921)
as Peter Ibbetson
The Wrong Heart (1916)
Actor
Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912)
as Oniatore / Romeo
What's Your Hurry? (1920)
as Dusty Rhoades
Sick Abed (1920)
as Reginald Jay
When Jim Returned (1913)
as Jim
The Exposure (1914)
as The Reporter
Whoso Diggeth a Pit (1914)
as Wally
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)
as Dorian Gray
Before the White Man Came (1912)
as Wathuma - the Leopard
A Yankee from the West (1915)
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
The Wall of Money (1913)
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Illumination (1912)
as Giuseppe's Father
Breed o' the Mountains (1914)
as Joe Mayfield
Cupid Incognito (1914)
as Jack Falkner
Moonshine Molly (1914)
as Lawson Keene
Another Chance (1914)
as Detective Flynn
To Have and to Hold (1916)
as Captain Ralph Percy
Sierra Jim's Reformation (1914)
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The Thing We Love (1918)
as Rodney Sheridan
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine (1913)
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Spirit of the Flag (1913)
as Dr. Reid
His Extra Bit (1918)
as The Husband
The Hidden Treasure (1912)
as Bill Binks
Rent Free (1922)
as Buell Arnister Jr
The Cowboy Guardians (1912)
Actor
When Luck Changes (1913)
as Cal Jim
Station Content (1915)
as Jim Manning
The Tell-Tale Arm (1917)
Actor
Down by the Sounding Sea (1914)
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
The Fires of Fate (1913)
as Wally - the Doctor
The Tribal Law (1912)
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
A Cracksman Santa Claus (1913)
as Gentleman Crook
The Siren (1914)
as Dane Northrop
The Man from Funeral Range (1918)
as Harry Webb
Baby's Ride (1914)
as Father
The Tattooed Arm (1913)
as Ben Hart
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip (1913)
as Policeman
A Foreign Spy (1913)
Actor
The Man Within (1914)
as The Outlaw
Pride of Lonesome (1913)
as Edward Daton
The Heart of a Cracksman (1913)
as Gentleman Crook
The Telephone Girl (1912)
as Jack Watson
The Cracksman's Reformation (1913)
as Gentleman Crook
Down the Hill to Creditville (1914)
as Marcus Down
The Secret Service Man (1912)
as The Secret Service Man
The Daughter of a Crook (1914)
as Neal
The Mother of the Ranch (1911)
as The Mother's Friend Back East
The Indian Raiders (1912)
as Tom
Arms and the Gringo (1914)
as Sullivan
Hearts and Horses (1913)
as Bill Walters
The City Beautiful (1914)
as The Country Boy
The House with the Golden Windows (1916)
as Tom Wells
The Three Brothers (1915)
as Jean Gaudet / Will
A Modern Snare (1913)
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
The Ways of Fate (1913)
as Jim Conway
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli (1912)
Actor
The High Grader (1914)
as Dick Raleigh
The Path of True Love (1912)
as The Country Boy
Via Cabaret (1913)
as Harry Reeder
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)
as Basil Underwood
At Cripple Creek (1912)
as Joe Mayfield
The Reporter (1911)
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
A Man's Duty (1912)
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
Every Inch a Man (1912)
as Robert Chapman - the Son
Virginius (1912)
as Icilius
A Rose of Old Mexico (1913)
as Paul Hapgood
At Scrogginses' Corner (1912)
Actor
The Love Special (1921)
as Jim Glover
Jean Intervenes (1912)
as Billy Hallock
Kaintuck (1912)
as The Artist