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Wallace Reid
Born · April 14, 1891
Died · January 18, 1923 (31 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Bio
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.
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1961
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1942
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
7.0
1931
Thirty Days
John Floyd
0.0
1922
Night Life in Hollywood
Self
0.0
1922
Clarence
Clarence Smith
0.0
1922
The Ghost Breaker
Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
0.0
1922
Nice People
Captain Billy Wade
0.0
1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
7.3
1922
The Dictator
Brooke Travers
0.0
1922
Across the Continent
Jimmy Dent
0.0
1922
The World's Champion
William Burroughs
0.0
1922
Rent Free
Buell Arnister Jr
0.0
1922
Don't Tell Everything
Cullen Dale
0.0
1921
Forever
Peter Ibbetson
0.0
1921
The Affairs of Anatol
Anatol Spencer
5.6
1921
The Hell Diggers
Teddy Darman
5.0
1921
Too Much Speed
'Dusty' Rhoades
0.0
1921
The Love Special
Jim Glover
0.0
1921
The Charm School
Austin Bevans
0.0
1921
Always Audacious
Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
0.0
1920
What's Your Hurry?
Dusty Rhoades
0.0
1920
Sick Abed
Reginald Jay
0.0
1920
The Dancin' Fool
Sylvester Tibble
0.0
1920
Excuse My Dust
'Toodles' Walden
5.7
1920
Double Speed
'Speed' Carr
0.0
1920
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
6.2
1919
The Lottery Man
Jack Wright
0.0
1919
The Valley of the Giants
Bryce Cardigan
5.5
1919
The Love Burglar
David Strong
0.0
1919
You're Fired
Billy Deering
0.0
1919
The Roaring Road
Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
5.8
1919
Alias Mike Moran
Larry Young
0.0
1919
The Dub
John Craig (The 'Dub')
0.0
1919
Too Many Millions
Walsingham Van Doren
0.0
1918
The Man from Funeral Range
Harry Webb
0.0
1918
His Extra Bit
The Husband
0.0
1918
The Source
Van Twiller Yard
0.0
1918
Less Than Kin
Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
0.0
1918
The Firefly of France
Devereux Bayne
0.0
1918
Believe Me, Xantippe
George MacFarland
0.0
1918
The House of Silence
Marcel Levington
0.0
1918
The Thing We Love
Rodney Sheridan
0.0
1918
Rimrock Jones
Rimrock Jones
0.0
1918
The Devil Stone
Guy Sterling
0.0
1917
Nan of Music Mountain
Henry de Spain
0.0
1917
The Woman God Forgot
Alvarado
5.8
1917
The Hostage
Lieutenant Kemper
0.0
1917
The Squaw Man's Son
Lord Effington, aka Hal
0.0
1917
Big Timber
Jack Fife
0.0
1917
The World Apart
Bob Fulton
0.0
1917
The Tell-Tale Arm
0.0
1917
The Prison Without Walls
Huntington Babbs
0.0
1917
The Man Who Saved the Day
John King
0.0
1917
The Golden Fetter
James Roger Ralston
0.0
1917
Joan the Woman
Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
5.6
1916
The Wrong Heart
0.0
1916
The Wall of Flame
Wallace - the Fire Inspector
0.0
1916
The Yellow Pawn
James Weldon
0.0
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
7.1
1916
The House with the Golden Windows
Tom Wells
0.0
1916
The Selfish Woman
Tom Morley
0.0
1916
Maria Rosa
Andreas
0.0
1916
The Love Mask
Dan Derring
0.0
1916
To Have and to Hold
Captain Ralph Percy
0.0
1916
The Golden Chance
Roger Manning
6.5
1915
Old Heidelberg
Prince Karl Heinrich
4.0
1915
Carmen
Don Jose
6.1
1915
The Chorus Lady
Danny Mallory
0.0
1915
A Yankee from the West
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
0.0
1915
Station Content
Jim Manning
0.0
1915
Enoch Arden
Walter Fenn
6.3
1915
The Lost House
Ford
0.0
1915
The Birth of a Nation
Jeff, the Blacksmith
6.0
1915
The Craven
Bud Walton
0.0
1915
The Three Brothers
Jean Gaudet / Will
0.0
1915
Baby's Ride
Father
0.0
1914
The Exposure
The Reporter
0.0
1914
The Joke on Yellentown
0.0
1914
At Dawn
The Lieutenant
0.0
1914
Over the Ledge
Bob
0.0
1914
Another Chance
Detective Flynn
0.0
1914
The Little Country Mouse
Lieutenant Hawkhurst
5.0
1914
The Odalisque
Curtiss
0.0
1914
The Niggard
Elmer Kent
0.0
1914
A Mother's Influence
Wallace Burton - the Son
0.0
1914
For Her Father's Sins
Frank Bell
0.0
1914
Her Doggy
The Doctor (unconfirmed)
0.0
1914
Her Awakening
Bob Turner
0.0
1914
Down the Hill to Creditville
Marcus Down
0.0
1914
The High Grader
Dick Raleigh
0.0
1914
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Tim - the Pony Express Rider
0.0
1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Samuel Roebuck
0.0
1914
The Avenging Conscience
The Doctor (uncredited)
6.2
1914
Moonshine Molly
Lawson Keene
0.0
1914
Down by the Sounding Sea
John Ward - the Man from the Sea
0.0
1914
The City Beautiful
The Country Boy
0.0
1914
Arms and the Gringo
Sullivan
0.0
1914
The Den of Thieves
Wallace
0.0
1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
Lt. Wallace
0.0
1914
A Wife on a Wager
Wally Bristow
0.0
1914
Love's Western Flight
Wally - the Ranch Owner
0.0
1914
Passing of the Beast
Jacques - the Woodsman
0.0
1914
The Man Within
The Outlaw
0.0
1914
The Siren
Dane Northrop
0.0
1914
The Quack
Wallace Rosslyn
0.0
1914
Women and Roses
Wallace
0.0
1914
The Daughter of a Crook
Neal
0.0
1914
The Fruit of Evil
0.0
1914
The Skeleton
Jack - the Young Husband
0.0
1914
The Test
The Poor Man
5.0
1914
A Gypsy Romance
Jose - King of the Gypsies
0.0
1914
Cupid Incognito
Jack Falkner
0.0
1914
The Spider and Her Web
0.0
1914
The Way of a Woman
Pierre
0.0
1914
The Mountaineer
Jim - the Mountaineer
0.0
1914
The Heart of the Hills
Dave - the Woodsman
0.0
1914
The Voice of the Viola
Wallace
0.0
1914
Regeneration
The Artist
0.0
1914
Breed o' the Mountains
Joe Mayfield
0.0
1914
A Flash in the Dark
A Miner
0.0
1914
The Greater Devotion
'Devotion'
0.0
1914
Fires of Conscience
Ray - the Prospector
0.0
1914
The Wheel of Life
The Prospector
0.0
1914
The Countess Betty's Mine
Wallace
0.0
1914
The Intruder
The Woodsman
0.0
1914
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Wally
0.0
1914
A Hopi Legend
0.0
1913
The Lightning Bolt
Reid
0.0
1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Gentleman Crook
0.0
1913
Retribution
Reid
0.0
1913
Cross Purposes
Wally
0.0
1913
The Fires of Fate
Wally - the Doctor
0.0
1913
The Cracksman's Reformation
Gentleman Crook
0.0
1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
Gentleman Crook
0.0
1913
The Wall of Money
Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
0.0
1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
Wally
0.0
1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Reid - Rosson's Brother
0.0
1913
The Spark of Manhood
0.0
1913
The Harvest of Flame
The Inspector
0.0
1913
The Animal
The Animal
0.0
1913
An Even Exchange
Joe
0.0
1913
Man's Duty
Bill, the Selfish One
0.0
1913
Mental Suicide
Reid - a Contractor
0.0
1913
The Picket Guard
Sentry
0.0
1913
A Foreign Spy
0.0
1913
The Powder Flash of Death
Captain Bruce Douglas
0.0
1913
Pride of Lonesome
Edward Daton
0.0
1913
Song Bird of the North
Fowle - a Mission Worker
0.0
1913
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Policeman
0.0
1913
The Guerilla Menace
Captain Bruce Douglas
0.0
1913
Women and War
The Boy
0.0
1913
In Love and War
David - the Journalist
0.0
1913
Hearts and Horses
Bill Walters
0.0
1913
Via Cabaret
Harry Reeder
0.0
1913
The Spirit of the Flag
Dr. Reid
5.0
1913
When Luck Changes
Cal Jim
0.0
1913
His Mother's Son
0.0
1913
On the Border
Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
0.0
1913
Her Innocent Marriage
Will Wayne
0.0
1913
A Modern Snare
Ralph - the New Sheriff
0.0
1913
The Kiss
Ralph Walters
0.0
1913
Youth and Jealousy
Ben
0.0
1913
The Deerslayer
Chingachgook
6.2
1913
The Brothers
Robert Gregory
0.0
1913
The Tattooed Arm
Ben Hart
0.0
1913
When Jim Returned
Jim
5.0
1913
The Ways of Fate
Jim Conway
0.0
1913
The Eye of a God
Frank Hammond
0.0
1913
Near To Earth
0.0
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
Paul Hapgood
0.0
1913
Their Masterpiece
Jack Sanders
0.0
1913
Pirate Gold
0.0
1913
Love and the Law
Sheriff John Allen
0.0
1913
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray
0.0
1913
The Hidden Treasure
Bill Binks
0.0
1912
An Indian Outcast
Wally, a Cowboy
0.0
1912
The Tribal Law
Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
0.0
1912
The Cowboy Guardians
0.0
1912
A Daughter of the Redskins
Captain Stark, U.S.A.
0.0
1912
Hunted Down
John Dayton
0.0
1912
Early Days in the West
Dan, a Young Pioneer
0.0
1912
Every Inch a Man
Robert Chapman - the Son
0.0
1912
His Only Son
Bob Madden
0.0
1912
The Indian Raiders
Tom
0.0
1912
The Secret Service Man
The Secret Service Man
0.0
1912
Making Good
Billy Burns
0.0
1912
At Cripple Creek
Joe Mayfield
0.0
1912
A Man's Duty
Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
0.0
1912
Before the White Man Came
Wathuma - the Leopard
0.0
1912
The Gamblers
Arthur Ingraham
0.0
1912
Virginius
Icilius
0.0
1912
Kaintuck
The Artist
0.0
1912
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Basil Underwood
0.0
1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
Clerk
6.0
1912
Fortunes of a Composer
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
4.0
1912
The Hieroglyphic
0.0
1912
The Victoria Cross
Lt. Cholmodeley
5.0
1912
Brothers
0.0
1912
At Scrogginses' Corner
0.0
1912
The Illumination
Giuseppe's Father
0.0
1912
The Seventh Son
One of the Beecham Brothers
0.0
1912
The Telephone Girl
Jack Watson
0.0
1912
Playmates
Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
4.0
1912
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Oniatore / Romeo
0.0
1912
Jean Intervenes
Billy Hallock
0.0
1912
Chumps
George - the Denouement
0.0
1912
The Path of True Love
The Country Boy
0.0
1912
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
0.0
1912
The Seepore Rebellion
Extra
0.0
1912
War
Midas
9.5
1911
The Mother of the Ranch
The Mother's Friend Back East
0.0
1911
The Reporter
Cohn, Jones' Assistant
0.0
1911
The Leading Lady
0.0
1911
The Phoenix
Young Reporter
0.0
1910