Wallace Reid
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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Movies (218)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961 · Self (archive footage)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
1957 · Él mismo (material de archivo)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
The Movie Album
1932 · (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
1931 · (archive footage)
Thirty Days
1922 · John Floyd
Night Life in Hollywood
1922 · Self
Clarence
1922 · Clarence Smith
The Ghost Breaker
1922 · Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
Nice People
1922 · Captain Billy Wade
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Self
The Dictator
1922 · Brooke Travers
Across the Continent
1922 · Jimmy Dent
The World's Champion
1922 · William Burroughs
Rent Free
1922 · Buell Arnister Jr
Don't Tell Everything
1921 · Cullen Dale
Forever
1921 · Peter Ibbetson
The Affairs of Anatol
1921 · Anatol Spencer
The Hell Diggers
1921 · Teddy Darman
Too Much Speed
1921 · 'Dusty' Rhoades
The Love Special
1921 · Jim Glover
The Charm School
1921 · Austin Bevans
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
1921 · As himself
Always Audacious
1920 · Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
What's Your Hurry?
1920 · Dusty Rhoades
Sick Abed
1920 · Reginald Jay
The Dancin' Fool
1920 · Sylvester Tibble
Excuse My Dust
1920 · 'Toodles' Walden
Double Speed
1920 · 'Speed' Carr
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919 · Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
The Lottery Man
1919 · Jack Wright
The Valley of the Giants
1919 · Bryce Cardigan
The Love Burglar
1919 · David Strong
You're Fired
1919 · Billy Deering
The Roaring Road
1919 · Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
Alias Mike Moran
1919 · Larry Young
The Dub
1919 · John Craig (The 'Dub')
Too Many Millions
1918 · Walsingham Van Doren
The Man from Funeral Range
1918 · Harry Webb
His Extra Bit
1918 · The Husband
The Source
1918 · Van Twiller Yard
Less Than Kin
1918 · Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
The Firefly of France
1918 · Devereux Bayne
Believe Me, Xantippe
1918 · George MacFarland
The House of Silence
1918 · Marcel Levington
The Thing We Love
1918 · Rodney Sheridan
Rimrock Jones
1918 · Rimrock Jones
The Devil Stone
1917 · Guy Sterling
Nan of Music Mountain
1917 · Henry de Spain
The Woman God Forgot
1917 · Alvarado
The Hostage
1917 · Lieutenant Kemper
The Squaw Man's Son
1917 · Lord Effington, aka Hal
Big Timber
1917 · Jack Fife
The World Apart
1917 · Bob Fulton
The Tell-Tale Arm
1917
The Prison Without Walls
1917 · Huntington Babbs
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917 · John King, Director
The Golden Fetter
1917 · James Roger Ralston
Joan the Woman
1916 · Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
The Wrong Heart
1916 · Director, Scenario Writer
The Wall of Flame
1916 · Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Yellow Pawn
1916 · James Weldon
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
The House with the Golden Windows
1916 · Tom Wells
The Selfish Woman
1916 · Tom Morley
Maria Rosa
1916 · Andreas
The Love Mask
1916 · Dan Derring
To Have and to Hold
1916 · Captain Ralph Percy
The Golden Chance
1915 · Roger Manning
Old Heidelberg
1915 · Prince Karl Heinrich
Carmen
1915 · Don Jose
The Chorus Lady
1915 · Danny Mallory
A Yankee from the West
1915 · Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
Station Content
1915 · Jim Manning
Enoch Arden
1915 · Walter Fenn
The Lost House
1915 · Ford
The Birth of a Nation
1915 · Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Craven
1915 · Bud Walton
The Three Brothers
1915 · Jean Gaudet / Will
Baby's Ride
1914 · Father
The Exposure
1914 · The Reporter
The Joke on Yellentown
1914
At Dawn
1914 · The Lieutenant
Over the Ledge
1914 · Bob
Another Chance
1914 · Detective Flynn
The Little Country Mouse
1914 · Lieutenant Hawkhurst
The Odalisque
1914 · Curtiss
The Niggard
1914 · Elmer Kent
A Mother's Influence
1914 · Wallace Burton - the Son
For Her Father's Sins
1914 · Frank Bell
Her Doggy
1914 · The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Awakening
1914 · Bob Turner
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914 · Marcus Down
The High Grader
1914 · Dick Raleigh
Sierra Jim's Reformation
1914 · Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914 · Samuel Roebuck
Moonshine Molly
1914 · Lawson Keene
The Avenging Conscience
1914 · The Doctor (uncredited)
Down by the Sounding Sea
1914 · John Ward - the Man from the Sea, Scenario Writer
The City Beautiful
1914 · The Country Boy
Arms and the Gringo
1914 · Sullivan
The Den of Thieves
1914 · Wallace, Director
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914 · Lt. Wallace, Director
A Wife on a Wager
1914 · Wally Bristow, Director
Love's Western Flight
1914 · Wally - the Ranch Owner, Director
Passing of the Beast
1914 · Jacques - the Woodsman, Director
The Man Within
1914 · The Outlaw, Director
The Siren
1914 · Dane Northrop, Director
The Quack
1914 · Wallace Rosslyn, Director
Women and Roses
1914 · Wallace, Writer, Director
The Daughter of a Crook
1914 · Neal
The Fruit of Evil
1914 · Director, Writer
The Skeleton
1914 · Jack - the Young Husband, Director
The Test
1914 · The Poor Man, Director
A Gypsy Romance
1914 · Jose - King of the Gypsies, Director
Cupid Incognito
1914 · Jack Falkner, Writer, Director
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The Way of a Woman
1914 · Pierre, Director
The Mountaineer
1914 · Jim - the Mountaineer, Director, Writer
The Heart of the Hills
1914 · Dave - the Woodsman, Writer, Director
The Voice of the Viola
1914 · Wallace, Director
Regeneration
1914 · The Artist, Director
Breed o' the Mountains
1914 · Joe Mayfield, Director
A Flash in the Dark
1914 · A Miner, Director
The Greater Devotion
1914 · 'Devotion', Director
Fires of Conscience
1914 · Ray - the Prospector, Director
The Wheel of Life
1914 · The Prospector, Director
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914 · Wallace, Director
The Intruder
1914 · The Woodsman, Director
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
1914 · Wally
A Hopi Legend
1913 · Writer, Director
The Lightning Bolt
1913 · Reid, Director, Writer
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913 · Gentleman Crook, Writer
Retribution
1913 · Reid, Director
Cross Purposes
1913 · Wally, Director
The Fires of Fate
1913 · Wally - the Doctor, Director, Scenario Writer
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913 · Gentleman Crook, Writer
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913 · Gentleman Crook, Director, Writer
The Wall of Money
1913 · Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913 · Wally, Director
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913 · Reid - Rosson's Brother, Director
The Spark of Manhood
1913 · Humphrey Van Weyden, Director
The Harvest of Flame
1913 · The Inspector, Director, Writer
The Animal
1913 · The Animal
An Even Exchange
1913 · Joe
Man's Duty
1913 · Bill, the Selfish One
Mental Suicide
1913 · Reid - a Contractor, Writer
The Picket Guard
1913 · Sentry
A Foreign Spy
1913 · Director
The Powder Flash of Death
1913 · Captain Bruce Douglas
Pride of Lonesome
1913 · Edward Daton, Director
Song Bird of the North
1913 · Fowle - a Mission Worker
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
1913 · Policeman
The Guerilla Menace
1913 · Captain Bruce Douglas
Women and War
1913 · The Boy, Writer
In Love and War
1913 · David - the Journalist
Hearts and Horses
1913 · Bill Walters, Director
Via Cabaret
1913 · Harry Reeder, Director
The Spirit of the Flag
1913 · Dr. Reid, Writer
When Luck Changes
1913 · Cal Jim, Director
His Mother's Son
1913
On the Border
1913 · Bill Reeves - the Cowboy, Director
Her Innocent Marriage
1913 · Will Wayne, Director
A Modern Snare
1913 · Ralph - the New Sheriff, Director
The Kiss
1913 · Ralph Walters, Director
Youth and Jealousy
1913 · Ben, Director
The Deerslayer
1913 · Chingachgook
The Brothers
1913 · Robert Gregory, Director
The Tattooed Arm
1913 · Ben Hart, Writer, Director
When Jim Returned
1913 · Jim, Writer, Director
The Ways of Fate
1913 · Jim Conway, Director
The Eye of a God
1913 · Frank Hammond
Near To Earth
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913 · Paul Hapgood, Director
Pirate Gold
1913
Their Masterpiece
1913 · Jack Sanders
Love and the Law
1913 · Sheriff John Allen, Director, Scenario Writer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913 · Dorian Gray
The Hidden Treasure
1912 · Bill Binks, Director
An Indian Outcast
1912 · Wally, a Cowboy
The Tribal Law
1912 · Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave, Director, Writer
The Cowboy Guardians
1912
A Daughter of the Redskins
1912 · Captain Stark, U.S.A.
Hunted Down
1912 · John Dayton
Early Days in the West
1912 · Dan, a Young Pioneer
Every Inch a Man
1912 · Robert Chapman - the Son
His Only Son
1912 · Bob Madden
The Indian Raiders
1912 · Tom
The Secret Service Man
1912 · The Secret Service Man
Making Good
1912 · Billy Burns
At Cripple Creek
1912 · Joe Mayfield
A Man's Duty
1912 · Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
Before the White Man Came
1912 · Wathuma - the Leopard, Writer
The Gamblers
1912 · Arthur Ingraham
Virginius
1912 · Icilius
Kaintuck
1912 · The Artist
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912 · Basil Underwood
Diamond Cut Diamond
1912 · Clerk
Fortunes of a Composer
1912 · Opera Attendee (uncredited)
The Hieroglyphic
1912
The Victoria Cross
1912 · Lt. Cholmodeley
Brothers
1912
At Scrogginses' Corner
1912
The Illumination
1912 · Giuseppe's Father
The Seventh Son
1912 · One of the Beecham Brothers
The Telephone Girl
1912 · Jack Watson
Playmates
1912 · Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Indian Romeo and Juliet
1912 · Oniatore / Romeo
Jean Intervenes
1912 · Billy Hallock
Chumps
1912 · George - the Denouement, Scenario Writer
The Path of True Love
1912 · The Country Boy
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
1912
The Seepore Rebellion
1912 · Extra
War
1911 · Midas
The Mother of the Ranch
1911 · The Mother's Friend Back East
The Reporter
1911 · Cohn, Jones' Assistant
The Leading Lady
1911
The Phoenix
1910 · Young Reporter
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