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)
War (1911)
as Midas
The World's Champion (1922)
as William Burroughs
Playmates (1912)
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Rimrock Jones (1918)
as Rimrock Jones
Nan of Music Mountain (1917)
as Henry de Spain
The Kiss (1913)
as Ralph Walters
The Spirit of the Flag (1913)
as Dr. Reid
The Deerslayer (1913)
as Chingachgook
The Test (1914)
as The Poor Man
Joan the Woman (1916)
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
The Gamblers (1912)
as Arthur Ingraham
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
as Anatol Spencer
Carmen (1915)
as Don Jose
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Doctor (uncredited)
The Movie Album (1932)
as (archive footage)
For Her Father's Sins (1914)
as Frank Bell
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
The Hieroglyphic (1912)
Actor
The Intruder (1914)
as The Woodsman
Thirty Days (1922)
as John Floyd
Her Doggy (1914)
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
When Luck Changes (1913)
as Cal Jim
The World Apart (1917)
as Bob Fulton
The Mountaineer (1914)
as Jim - the Mountaineer
Old Heidelberg (1915)
as Prince Karl Heinrich
The Voice of the Viola (1914)
as Wallace
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Retribution (1913)
as Reid
The Wall of Money (1913)
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
Less Than Kin (1918)
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
The Valley of the Giants (1919)
as Bryce Cardigan
The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914)
as Samuel Roebuck
Enoch Arden (1915)
as Walter Fenn
Making Good (1912)
as Billy Burns
A Flash in the Dark (1914)
as A Miner
The Lottery Man (1919)
as Jack Wright
Forever (1921)
as Peter Ibbetson
Chumps (1912)
as George - the Denouement
The House of Silence (1918)
as Marcel Levington
A Cracksman Santa Claus (1913)
as Gentleman Crook
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine (1913)
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
Across the Continent (1922)
as Jimmy Dent
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
A Gypsy Romance (1914)
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
The Quack (1914)
as Wallace Rosslyn
Passing of the Beast (1914)
as Jacques - the Woodsman
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
The Prison Without Walls (1917)
as Huntington Babbs
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
as Alvarado
The Dictator (1922)
as Brooke Travers
Nice People (1922)
as Captain Billy Wade
The Golden Fetter (1917)
as James Roger Ralston
Love's Western Flight (1914)
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
A Daughter of the Redskins (1912)
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
Hunted Down (1912)
as John Dayton
The House with the Golden Windows (1916)
as Tom Wells
The Hell Diggers (1921)
as Teddy Darman
Always Audacious (1920)
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
At Dawn (1914)
as The Lieutenant
The Mother of the Ranch (1911)
as The Mother's Friend Back East
Over the Ledge (1914)
as Bob
The Animal (1913)
as The Animal
An Indian Outcast (1912)
as Wally, a Cowboy
The Source (1918)
as Van Twiller Yard
The Gratitude of Wanda (1913)
as Wally
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The Countess Betty's Mine (1914)
as Wallace
Regeneration (1914)
as The Artist
Too Many Millions (1918)
as Walsingham Van Doren
The Squaw Man's Son (1917)
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
Their Masterpiece (1913)
as Jack Sanders
A Hopi Legend (1913)
Actor
Cross Purposes (1913)
as Wally
Near To Earth (1913)
Actor
Man's Duty (1913)
as Bill, the Selfish One
The Selfish Woman (1916)
as Tom Morley
The Heart of the Hills (1914)
as Dave - the Woodsman
The Tribal Law (1912)
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
The Picket Guard (1913)
as Sentry
Women and War (1913)
as The Boy
The Wheel of Life (1914)
as The Prospector
The Brothers (1913)
as Robert Gregory
'Cross the Mexican Line (1914)
as Lt. Wallace
The Lightning Bolt (1913)
as Reid
The Yellow Pawn (1916)
as James Weldon
The Little Country Mouse (1914)
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
Clarence (1922)
as Clarence Smith
Believe Me, Xantippe (1918)
as George MacFarland
The Dub (1919)
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
What's Your Hurry? (1920)
as Dusty Rhoades
The Roaring Road (1919)
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
The Daughter of a Crook (1914)
as Neal
Fortunes of a Composer (1912)
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Early Days in the West (1912)
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
The Ways of Fate (1913)
as Jim Conway
Down the Hill to Creditville (1914)
as Marcus Down
The Victoria Cross (1912)
as Lt. Cholmodeley
The Man from Funeral Range (1918)
as Harry Webb
Don't Tell Everything (1921)
as Cullen Dale
A Modern Snare (1913)
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
The Hidden Treasure (1912)
as Bill Binks
Her Awakening (1914)
as Bob Turner
The Phoenix (1910)
as Young Reporter
The Spider and Her Web (1914)
Actor
The Love Mask (1916)
as Dan Derring
The Spark of Manhood (1913)
as Humphrey Van Weyden
A Wife on a Wager (1914)
as Wally Bristow
You're Fired (1919)
as Billy Deering
Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912)
as Oniatore / Romeo
Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
as Self
The Golden Chance (1915)
as Roger Manning
When Jim Returned (1913)
as Jim
The Lost House (1915)
as Ford
Big Timber (1917)
as Jack Fife
The Cowboy Guardians (1912)
Actor
Whoso Diggeth a Pit (1914)
as Wally
Women and Roses (1914)
as Wallace
The Chorus Lady (1915)
as Danny Mallory
Rent Free (1922)
as Buell Arnister Jr
Before the White Man Came (1912)
as Wathuma - the Leopard
Alias Mike Moran (1919)
as Larry Young
The Charm School (1921)
as Austin Bevans
To Have and to Hold (1916)
as Captain Ralph Percy
The Thing We Love (1918)
as Rodney Sheridan
The Tattooed Arm (1913)
as Ben Hart
The Guerilla Menace (1913)
as Captain Bruce Douglas
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel (1921)
as As himself
Breed o' the Mountains (1914)
as Joe Mayfield
Song Bird of the North (1913)
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
The Greater Devotion (1914)
as 'Devotion'
The Hostage (1917)
as Lieutenant Kemper
The Devil Stone (1917)
as Guy Sterling
Every Inch a Man (1912)
as Robert Chapman - the Son
The Heart of a Cracksman (1913)
as Gentleman Crook
The Wrong Heart (1916)
Actor
The Harvest of Flame (1913)
as The Inspector
Youth and Jealousy (1913)
as Ben
A Mother's Influence (1914)
as Wallace Burton - the Son
The Eye of a God (1913)
as Frank Hammond
The Skeleton (1914)
as Jack - the Young Husband
Maria Rosa (1916)
as Andreas
The Dancin' Fool (1920)
as Sylvester Tibble
Love and the Law (1913)
as Sheriff John Allen
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli (1912)
Actor
Cupid Incognito (1914)
as Jack Falkner
The Niggard (1914)
as Elmer Kent
The Love Special (1921)
as Jim Glover
On the Border (1913)
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
The Love Burglar (1919)
as David Strong
The Den of Thieves (1914)
as Wallace
Sierra Jim's Reformation (1914)
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The Three Brothers (1915)
as Jean Gaudet / Will
The Joke on Yellentown (1914)
Actor
Fires of Conscience (1914)
as Ray - the Prospector
The Fruit of Evil (1914)
Actor
Arms and the Gringo (1914)
as Sullivan
The Man Who Saved the Day (1917)
as John King
Excuse My Dust (1920)
as 'Toodles' Walden
An Even Exchange (1913)
as Joe
The Craven (1915)
as Bud Walton
Pride of Lonesome (1913)
as Edward Daton
The Exposure (1914)
as The Reporter
Mental Suicide (1913)
as Reid - a Contractor
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip (1913)
as Policeman
Too Much Speed (1921)
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
Via Cabaret (1913)
as Harry Reeder
The Fires of Fate (1913)
as Wally - the Doctor
A Foreign Spy (1913)
Actor
His Only Son (1912)
as Bob Madden
The Indian Raiders (1912)
as Tom
The Firefly of France (1918)
as Devereux Bayne
Pirate Gold (1913)
Actor
The Telephone Girl (1912)
as Jack Watson
The City Beautiful (1914)
as The Country Boy
The Seepore Rebellion (1912)
as Extra
His Extra Bit (1918)
as The Husband
Moonshine Molly (1914)
as Lawson Keene
The Seventh Son (1912)
as One of the Beecham Brothers
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)
as Dorian Gray
The Siren (1914)
as Dane Northrop
Diamond Cut Diamond (1912)
as Clerk
Sick Abed (1920)
as Reginald Jay
In Love and War (1913)
as David - the Journalist
The Man Within (1914)
as The Outlaw
Baby's Ride (1914)
as Father
Another Chance (1914)
as Detective Flynn
Double Speed (1920)
as 'Speed' Carr
The Cracksman's Reformation (1913)
as Gentleman Crook
His Mother's Son (1913)
Actor
The Odalisque (1914)
as Curtiss
A Yankee from the West (1915)
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
Her Innocent Marriage (1913)
as Will Wayne
Hearts and Horses (1913)
as Bill Walters
A Rose of Old Mexico (1913)
as Paul Hapgood
The Tell-Tale Arm (1917)
Actor
Down by the Sounding Sea (1914)
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
The Illumination (1912)
as Giuseppe's Father
The Powder Flash of Death (1913)
as Captain Bruce Douglas
The Wall of Flame (1916)
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Path of True Love (1912)
as The Country Boy
Brothers (1912)
Actor
The Reporter (1911)
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
At Scrogginses' Corner (1912)
Actor
At Cripple Creek (1912)
as Joe Mayfield
The Way of a Woman (1914)
as Pierre
The Leading Lady (1911)
Actor
Station Content (1915)
as Jim Manning
The Secret Service Man (1912)
as The Secret Service Man
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)
as Basil Underwood
Virginius (1912)
as Icilius
Jean Intervenes (1912)
as Billy Hallock
The High Grader (1914)
as Dick Raleigh
Kaintuck (1912)
as The Artist
A Man's Duty (1912)
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier