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Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid

ActingBorn April 14, 1891Died January 18, 1923 (age 31)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.

Filmography

1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1932
The Movie Album

as (archive footage)

Movie
1931
The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

Movie
1922
Thirty Days

as John Floyd

Movie
1922Movie
1922
Clarence

as Clarence Smith

Movie
1922
The Ghost Breaker

as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker

Movie
1922
Nice People

as Captain Billy Wade

Movie
1922Movie
1922
The Dictator

as Brooke Travers

Movie
1922Movie
1922
The World's Champion

as William Burroughs

Movie
1922
Rent Free

as Buell Arnister Jr

Movie
1921
Don't Tell Everything

as Cullen Dale

Movie
1921
Forever

as Peter Ibbetson

Movie
1921
The Affairs of Anatol

as Anatol Spencer

Movie
1921
The Hell Diggers

as Teddy Darman

Movie
1921
Too Much Speed

as 'Dusty' Rhoades

Movie
1921
The Love Special

as Jim Glover

Movie
1921
The Charm School

as Austin Bevans

Movie
1920
Always Audacious

as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks

Movie
1920
What's Your Hurry?

as Dusty Rhoades

Movie
1920
Sick Abed

as Reginald Jay

Movie
1920
The Dancin' Fool

as Sylvester Tibble

Movie
1920
Excuse My Dust

as 'Toodles' Walden

Movie
1920
Double Speed

as 'Speed' Carr

Movie
1919
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne

Movie
1919
The Lottery Man

as Jack Wright

Movie
1919
The Valley of the Giants

as Bryce Cardigan

Movie
1919
The Love Burglar

as David Strong

Movie
1919
You're Fired

as Billy Deering

Movie
1919
The Roaring Road

as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden

Movie
1919
Alias Mike Moran

as Larry Young

Movie
1919
The Dub

as John Craig (The 'Dub')

Movie
1918
Too Many Millions

as Walsingham Van Doren

Movie
1918Movie
1918
His Extra Bit

as The Husband

Movie
1918
The Source

as Van Twiller Yard

Movie
1918
Less Than Kin

as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers

Movie
1918
The Firefly of France

as Devereux Bayne

Movie
1918
Believe Me, Xantippe

as George MacFarland

Movie
1918
The House of Silence

as Marcel Levington

Movie
1918
The Thing We Love

as Rodney Sheridan

Movie
1918
Rimrock Jones

as Rimrock Jones

Movie
1917
The Devil Stone

as Guy Sterling

Movie
1917
Nan of Music Mountain

as Henry de Spain

Movie
1917Movie
1917
The Hostage

as Lieutenant Kemper

Movie
1917
The Squaw Man's Son

as Lord Effington, aka Hal

Movie
1917
Big Timber

as Jack Fife

Movie
1917
The World Apart

as Bob Fulton

Movie
1917
The Prison Without Walls

as Huntington Babbs

Movie
1917Movie
1917
The Golden Fetter

as James Roger Ralston

Movie
1916
Joan the Woman

as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917

Movie
1916
The Wall of Flame

as Wallace - the Fire Inspector

Movie
1916
The Yellow Pawn

as James Weldon

Movie
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)

Movie
1916
The Selfish Woman

as Tom Morley

Movie
1916
Maria Rosa

as Andreas

Movie
1916
The Love Mask

as Dan Derring

Movie
1916
To Have and to Hold

as Captain Ralph Percy

Movie
1915
The Golden Chance

as Roger Manning

Movie
1915
Old Heidelberg

as Prince Karl Heinrich

Movie
1915
Carmen

as Don Jose

Movie
1915
The Chorus Lady

as Danny Mallory

Movie
1915
A Yankee from the West

as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud

Movie
1915
Station Content

as Jim Manning

Movie
1915
Enoch Arden

as Walter Fenn

Movie
1915Movie
1915
The Birth of a Nation

as Jeff, the Blacksmith

Movie
1915
The Craven

as Bud Walton

Movie
1915
The Three Brothers

as Jean Gaudet / Will

Movie
1914
Baby's Ride

as Father

Movie
1914
The Exposure

as The Reporter

Movie
1914
At Dawn

as The Lieutenant

Movie
1914Movie
1914
Another Chance

as Detective Flynn

Movie
1914
The Little Country Mouse

as Lieutenant Hawkhurst

Movie
1914
The Odalisque

as Curtiss

Movie
1914
The Niggard

as Elmer Kent

Movie
1914
A Mother's Influence

as Wallace Burton - the Son

Movie
1914Movie
1914
Her Doggy

as The Doctor (unconfirmed)

Movie
1914
Her Awakening

as Bob Turner

Movie
1914Movie
1914
The High Grader

as Dick Raleigh

Movie
1914
Sierra Jim's Reformation

as Tim - the Pony Express Rider

Movie
1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck

as Samuel Roebuck

Movie
1914
Moonshine Molly

as Lawson Keene

Movie
1914
The Avenging Conscience

as The Doctor (uncredited)

Movie
1914
Down by the Sounding Sea

as John Ward - the Man from the Sea

Movie
1914
The City Beautiful

as The Country Boy

Movie
1914Movie
1914Movie
1914Movie
1914
A Wife on a Wager

as Wally Bristow

Movie
1914
Love's Western Flight

as Wally - the Ranch Owner

Movie
1914
Passing of the Beast

as Jacques - the Woodsman

Movie
1914
The Man Within

as The Outlaw

Movie
1914
The Siren

as Dane Northrop

Movie
1914
The Quack

as Wallace Rosslyn

Movie
1914
Women and Roses

as Wallace

Movie
1914Movie
1914
The Skeleton

as Jack - the Young Husband

Movie
1914
The Test

as The Poor Man

Movie
1914
A Gypsy Romance

as Jose - King of the Gypsies

Movie
1914
Cupid Incognito

as Jack Falkner

Movie
1914Movie
1914
The Mountaineer

as Jim - the Mountaineer

Movie
1914
The Heart of the Hills

as Dave - the Woodsman

Movie
1914Movie
1914
Regeneration

as The Artist

Movie
1914
Breed o' the Mountains

as Joe Mayfield

Movie
1914Movie
1914Movie
1914
Fires of Conscience

as Ray - the Prospector

Movie
1914
The Wheel of Life

as The Prospector

Movie
1914Movie
1914
The Intruder

as The Woodsman

Movie
1914Movie
1913Movie
1913Movie
1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus

as Gentleman Crook

Movie
1913Movie
1913Movie
1913
The Fires of Fate

as Wally - the Doctor

Movie
1913
The Cracksman's Reformation

as Gentleman Crook

Movie
1913
The Heart of a Cracksman

as Gentleman Crook

Movie
1913
The Wall of Money

as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son

Movie
1913Movie
1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine

as Reid - Rosson's Brother

Movie
1913
The Spark of Manhood

as Humphrey Van Weyden

Movie
1913
The Harvest of Flame

as The Inspector

Movie
1913
The Animal

as The Animal

Movie
1913Movie
1913
Man's Duty

as Bill, the Selfish One

Movie
1913
Mental Suicide

as Reid - a Contractor

Movie
1913Movie
1913Movie
1913
The Powder Flash of Death

as Captain Bruce Douglas

Movie
1913
Pride of Lonesome

as Edward Daton

Movie
1913
Song Bird of the North

as Fowle - a Mission Worker

Movie
1913Movie
1913
The Guerilla Menace

as Captain Bruce Douglas

Movie
1913
Women and War

as The Boy

Movie
1913
In Love and War

as David - the Journalist

Movie
1913
Hearts and Horses

as Bill Walters

Movie
1913
Via Cabaret

as Harry Reeder

Movie
1913Movie
1913Movie
1913
On the Border

as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy

Movie
1913Movie
1913
A Modern Snare

as Ralph - the New Sheriff

Movie
1913
The Kiss

as Ralph Walters

Movie
1913Movie
1913
The Deerslayer

as Chingachgook

Movie
1913
The Brothers

as Robert Gregory

Movie
1913
The Tattooed Arm

as Ben Hart

Movie
1913Movie
1913
The Ways of Fate

as Jim Conway

Movie
1913
The Eye of a God

as Frank Hammond

Movie
1913Movie
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico

as Paul Hapgood

Movie
1913Movie
1913
Their Masterpiece

as Jack Sanders

Movie
1913
Love and the Law

as Sheriff John Allen

Movie
1913Movie
1912
The Hidden Treasure

as Bill Binks

Movie
1912
An Indian Outcast

as Wally, a Cowboy

Movie
1912
The Tribal Law

as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave

Movie
1912
A Daughter of the Redskins

as Captain Stark, U.S.A.

Movie
1912
Hunted Down

as John Dayton

Movie
1912
Early Days in the West

as Dan, a Young Pioneer

Movie
1912
Every Inch a Man

as Robert Chapman - the Son

Movie
1912
His Only Son

as Bob Madden

Movie
1912Movie
1912
The Secret Service Man

as The Secret Service Man

Movie
1912
Making Good

as Billy Burns

Movie
1912
At Cripple Creek

as Joe Mayfield

Movie
1912
A Man's Duty

as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier

Movie
1912
Before the White Man Came

as Wathuma - the Leopard

Movie
1912
The Gamblers

as Arthur Ingraham

Movie
1912
Virginius

as Icilius

Movie
1912
Kaintuck

as The Artist

Movie
1912Movie
1912Movie
1912
Fortunes of a Composer

as Opera Attendee (uncredited)

Movie
1912
The Victoria Cross

as Lt. Cholmodeley

Movie
1912Movie
1912
The Illumination

as Giuseppe's Father

Movie
1912
The Seventh Son

as One of the Beecham Brothers

Movie
1912
The Telephone Girl

as Jack Watson

Movie
1912
Playmates

as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)

Movie
1912
Indian Romeo and Juliet

as Oniatore / Romeo

Movie
1912
Jean Intervenes

as Billy Hallock

Movie
1912
Chumps

as George - the Denouement

Movie
1912
The Path of True Love

as The Country Boy

Movie
1912Movie
1911
War

as Midas

Movie
1911
The Mother of the Ranch

as The Mother's Friend Back East

Movie
1911
The Reporter

as Cohn, Jones' Assistant

Movie
1910
The Phoenix

as Young Reporter

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayApril 14, 1891
Day of DeathJanuary 18, 1923
Place of BirthSaint Louis, Missouri, USA
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