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.

Known for

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

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

Moonshine Molly

Lawson Keene

0.0

1914

The Avenging Conscience

The Doctor (uncredited)

6.1

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

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

Pirate Gold

0.0

1913

Their Masterpiece

Jack Sanders

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

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