Wallace Reid
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 14, 1891
- Died
- January 18, 1923 (aged 31)
- Birthplace
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
Movie · as Él mismo (material de archivo)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Album
Movie · as (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
Movie · as (archive footage)
Rent Free
Movie · as Buell Arnister Jr
Thirty Days
Movie · as John Floyd
Clarence
Movie · as Clarence Smith
A Trip to Paramountown
Movie · as Self
Nice People
Movie · as Captain Billy Wade
The Ghost Breaker
Movie · as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The World's Champion
Movie · as William Burroughs
The Dictator
Movie · as Brooke Travers
Night Life in Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Across the Continent
Movie · as Jimmy Dent
The Affairs of Anatol
Movie · as Anatol Spencer
Too Much Speed
Movie · as 'Dusty' Rhoades
The Charm School
Movie · as Austin Bevans
The Hell Diggers
Movie · as Teddy Darman
The Love Special
Movie · as Jim Glover
Forever
Movie · as Peter Ibbetson
Don't Tell Everything
Movie · as Cullen Dale
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
Movie · as As himself
The Dancin' Fool
Movie · as Sylvester Tibble
Double Speed
Movie · as 'Speed' Carr
Excuse My Dust
Movie · as 'Toodles' Walden
What's Your Hurry?
Movie · as Dusty Rhoades
Always Audacious
Movie · as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
Sick Abed
Movie · as Reginald Jay
The Love Burglar
Movie · as David Strong
The Dub
Movie · as John Craig (The 'Dub')
The Lottery Man
Movie · as Jack Wright
Alias Mike Moran
Movie · as Larry Young
The Roaring Road
Movie · as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Movie · as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
The Valley of the Giants
Movie · as Bryce Cardigan
You're Fired
Movie · as Billy Deering
The House of Silence
Movie · as Marcel Levington
Too Many Millions
Movie · as Walsingham Van Doren
The Thing We Love
Movie · as Rodney Sheridan
The Man from Funeral Range
Movie · as Harry Webb
Rimrock Jones
Movie · as Rimrock Jones
The Firefly of France
Movie · as Devereux Bayne
Believe Me, Xantippe
Movie · as George MacFarland
The Source
Movie · as Van Twiller Yard
Less Than Kin
Movie · as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
His Extra Bit
Movie · as The Husband
The Golden Fetter
Movie · as James Roger Ralston
The Man Who Saved the Day
Movie · as John King
The Tell-Tale Arm
Movie
The Prison Without Walls
Movie · as Huntington Babbs
The World Apart
Movie · as Bob Fulton
The Squaw Man's Son
Movie · as Lord Effington, aka Hal
The Hostage
Movie · as Lieutenant Kemper
The Woman God Forgot
Movie · as Alvarado
Big Timber
Movie · as Jack Fife
The Devil Stone
Movie · as Guy Sterling
Nan of Music Mountain
Movie · as Henry de Spain
Joan the Woman
Movie · as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
The Wall of Flame
Movie · as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Yellow Pawn
Movie · as James Weldon
The Wrong Heart
Movie
The Love Mask
Movie · as Dan Derring
To Have and to Hold
Movie · as Captain Ralph Percy
The House with the Golden Windows
Movie · as Tom Wells
The Selfish Woman
Movie · as Tom Morley
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Movie · as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Maria Rosa
Movie · as Andreas
The Lost House
Movie · as Ford
Station Content
Movie · as Jim Manning
The Craven
Movie · as Bud Walton
A Yankee from the West
Movie · as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
The Chorus Lady
Movie · as Danny Mallory
Carmen
Movie · as Don Jose
Enoch Arden
Movie · as Walter Fenn
Old Heidelberg
Movie · as Prince Karl Heinrich
The Golden Chance
Movie · as Roger Manning
The Birth of a Nation
Movie · as Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Three Brothers
Movie · as Jean Gaudet / Will
The Heart of the Hills
Movie · as Dave - the Woodsman
The Wheel of Life
Movie · as The Prospector
A Flash in the Dark
Movie · as A Miner
The Greater Devotion
Movie · as 'Devotion'
Fires of Conscience
Movie · as Ray - the Prospector
Breed o' the Mountains
Movie · as Joe Mayfield
Regeneration
Movie · as The Artist
Cupid Incognito
Movie · as Jack Falkner
The Test
Movie · as The Poor Man
The Spider and Her Web
Movie
The Mountaineer
Movie · as Jim - the Mountaineer
The Voice of the Viola
Movie · as Wallace
The Way of a Woman
Movie · as Pierre
A Gypsy Romance
Movie · as Jose - King of the Gypsies
The Skeleton
Movie · as Jack - the Young Husband
The Fruit of Evil
Movie
The Quack
Movie · as Wallace Rosslyn
The Daughter of a Crook
Movie · as Neal
Women and Roses
Movie · as Wallace
The Siren
Movie · as Dane Northrop
Passing of the Beast
Movie · as Jacques - the Woodsman
The Man Within
Movie · as The Outlaw
The Intruder
Movie · as The Woodsman
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Movie · as Wally
The Countess Betty's Mine
Movie · as Wallace
Love's Western Flight
Movie · as Wally - the Ranch Owner
Down by the Sounding Sea
Movie · as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
'Cross the Mexican Line
Movie · as Lt. Wallace
A Wife on a Wager
Movie · as Wally Bristow
The Den of Thieves
Movie · as Wallace
The City Beautiful
Movie · as The Country Boy
For Her Father's Sins
Movie · as Frank Bell
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Movie · as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
Her Doggy
Movie · as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Awakening
Movie · as Bob Turner
The Avenging Conscience
Movie · as The Doctor (uncredited)
Moonshine Molly
Movie · as Lawson Keene
Down the Hill to Creditville
Movie · as Marcus Down
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Movie · as Samuel Roebuck
The High Grader
Movie · as Dick Raleigh
The Niggard
Movie · as Elmer Kent
The Odalisque
Movie · as Curtiss
Over the Ledge
Movie · as Bob
Another Chance
Movie · as Detective Flynn
A Mother's Influence
Movie · as Wallace Burton - the Son
At Dawn
Movie · as The Lieutenant
The Exposure
Movie · as The Reporter
The Joke on Yellentown
Movie
Baby's Ride
Movie · as Father
Arms and the Gringo
Movie · as Sullivan
The Little Country Mouse
Movie · as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
His Mother's Son
Movie
Love and the Law
Movie · as Sheriff John Allen
The Guerilla Menace
Movie · as Captain Bruce Douglas
Song Bird of the North
Movie · as Fowle - a Mission Worker
Their Masterpiece
Movie · as Jack Sanders
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Movie · as Policeman
Pirate Gold
Movie
Pride of Lonesome
Movie · as Edward Daton
The Powder Flash of Death
Movie · as Captain Bruce Douglas
The Picket Guard
Movie · as Sentry
A Foreign Spy
Movie
Mental Suicide
Movie · as Reid - a Contractor
A Rose of Old Mexico
Movie · as Paul Hapgood
The Eye of a God
Movie · as Frank Hammond
When Jim Returned
Movie · as Jim
Near To Earth
Movie
The Tattooed Arm
Movie · as Ben Hart
The Ways of Fate
Movie · as Jim Conway
The Brothers
Movie · as Robert Gregory
The Kiss
Movie · as Ralph Walters
Youth and Jealousy
Movie · as Ben
Her Innocent Marriage
Movie · as Will Wayne
A Modern Snare
Movie · as Ralph - the New Sheriff
On the Border
Movie · as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
When Luck Changes
Movie · as Cal Jim
In Love and War
Movie · as David - the Journalist
Via Cabaret
Movie · as Harry Reeder
Hearts and Horses
Movie · as Bill Walters
Women and War
Movie · as The Boy
Man's Duty
Movie · as Bill, the Selfish One
An Even Exchange
Movie · as Joe
The Harvest of Flame
Movie · as The Inspector
The Animal
Movie · as The Animal
The Gratitude of Wanda
Movie · as Wally
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Movie · as Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Spark of Manhood
Movie · as Humphrey Van Weyden
The Wall of Money
Movie · as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Cracksman's Reformation
Movie · as Gentleman Crook
The Heart of a Cracksman
Movie · as Gentleman Crook
Cross Purposes
Movie · as Wally
The Fires of Fate
Movie · as Wally - the Doctor
Retribution
Movie · as Reid
A Hopi Legend
Movie
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Movie · as Gentleman Crook
The Lightning Bolt
Movie · as Reid
The Deerslayer
Movie · as Chingachgook
The Spirit of the Flag
Movie · as Dr. Reid
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie · as Dorian Gray
The Indian Raiders
Movie · as Tom
His Only Son
Movie · as Bob Madden
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
Movie
The Seventh Son
Movie · as One of the Beecham Brothers
Chumps
Movie · as George - the Denouement
The Path of True Love
Movie · as The Country Boy
Jean Intervenes
Movie · as Billy Hallock
Playmates
Movie · as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Movie · as Oniatore / Romeo
The Illumination
Movie · as Giuseppe's Father
Brothers
Movie
The Victoria Cross
Movie · as Lt. Cholmodeley
At Scrogginses' Corner
Movie
The Telephone Girl
Movie · as Jack Watson
The Hieroglyphic
Movie
Fortunes of a Composer
Movie · as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Early Days in the West
Movie · as Dan, a Young Pioneer
Virginius
Movie · as Icilius
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Movie · as Basil Underwood
Kaintuck
Movie · as The Artist
At Cripple Creek
Movie · as Joe Mayfield
Before the White Man Came
Movie · as Wathuma - the Leopard
The Gamblers
Movie · as Arthur Ingraham
A Man's Duty
Movie · as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
The Secret Service Man
Movie · as The Secret Service Man
Making Good
Movie · as Billy Burns
Hunted Down
Movie · as John Dayton
The Hidden Treasure
Movie · as Bill Binks
A Daughter of the Redskins
Movie · as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
The Seepore Rebellion
Movie · as Extra
The Cowboy Guardians
Movie
The Tribal Law
Movie · as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
An Indian Outcast
Movie · as Wally, a Cowboy
Diamond Cut Diamond
Movie · as Clerk
Every Inch a Man
Movie · as Robert Chapman - the Son
The Leading Lady
Movie
The Reporter
Movie · as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
War
Movie · as Midas
The Mother of the Ranch
Movie · as The Mother's Friend Back East
The Phoenix
Movie · as Young Reporter