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