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