Wallace Reid
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.
Known For
Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Joan the Woman
Buell Arnister Jr
Rent Free
David Strong
The Love Burglar
Sylvester Tibble
The Dancin' Fool
Anatol Spencer
The Affairs of Anatol
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Tom
The Indian Raiders
Bob Madden
His Only Son
Young Reporter
The Phoenix
The Leading Lady
Cohn, Jones' Assistant
The Reporter
The Mother's Friend Back East
The Mother of the Ranch
Midas
War
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
The Country Boy
The Path of True Love
George - the Denouement
Chumps
Billy Hallock
Jean Intervenes
Oniatore / Romeo
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Playmates
Jack Watson
The Telephone Girl
One of the Beecham Brothers
The Seventh Son
Giuseppe's Father
The Illumination
At Scrogginses' Corner
Brothers
Lt. Cholmodeley
The Victoria Cross
The Hieroglyphic
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Fortunes of a Composer
Dan, a Young Pioneer
Early Days in the West
Basil Underwood
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
His Mother's Son
The Artist
Kaintuck
Icilius
Virginius
Arthur Ingraham
The Gamblers
Wathuma - the Leopard
Before the White Man Came
Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
A Man's Duty
Joe Mayfield
At Cripple Creek
Billy Burns
Making Good
The Secret Service Man
The Secret Service Man
John Dayton
Hunted Down
Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
The Tribal Law
Captain Stark, U.S.A.
A Daughter of the Redskins
The Cowboy Guardians
Wally, a Cowboy
An Indian Outcast
Bill Binks
The Hidden Treasure
Extra
The Seepore Rebellion
Sheriff John Allen
Love and the Law
Captain Bruce Douglas
The Guerilla Menace
Policeman
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Fowle - a Mission Worker
Song Bird of the North
Jack Sanders
Their Masterpiece
Pirate Gold
Edward Daton
Pride of Lonesome
Captain Bruce Douglas
The Powder Flash of Death
A Foreign Spy
Sentry
The Picket Guard
Reid - a Contractor
Mental Suicide
Paul Hapgood
A Rose of Old Mexico
Frank Hammond
The Eye of a God
Jim Conway
The Ways of Fate
Jim
When Jim Returned
Ben Hart
The Tattooed Arm
Near To Earth
Robert Gregory
The Brothers
Ben
Youth and Jealousy
Ralph Walters
The Kiss
Dave - the Woodsman
The Heart of the Hills
Marcel Levington
The House of Silence
John Craig (The 'Dub')
The Dub
Walsingham Van Doren
Too Many Millions
The Prospector
The Wheel of Life
Ray - the Prospector
Fires of Conscience
'Devotion'
The Greater Devotion
A Miner
A Flash in the Dark
Rodney Sheridan
The Thing We Love
John Floyd
Thirty Days
Joe Mayfield
Breed o' the Mountains
Harry Webb
The Man from Funeral Range
Will Wayne
Her Innocent Marriage
Ralph - the New Sheriff
A Modern Snare
Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
On the Border
The Artist
Regeneration
Wallace
The Voice of the Viola
Pierre
The Way of a Woman
Jim - the Mountaineer
The Mountaineer
The Spider and Her Web
Jack Falkner
Cupid Incognito
Jose - King of the Gypsies
A Gypsy Romance
The Poor Man
The Test
Jack - the Young Husband
The Skeleton
Cal Jim
When Luck Changes
Harry Reeder
Via Cabaret
Bill Walters
Hearts and Horses
David - the Journalist
In Love and War
The Boy
Women and War
The Fruit of Evil
Neal
The Daughter of a Crook
Wallace
Women and Roses
Wallace Rosslyn
The Quack
Dane Northrop
The Siren
Bill, the Selfish One
Man's Duty
The Outlaw
The Man Within
Jacques - the Woodsman
Passing of the Beast
Joe
An Even Exchange
The Animal
The Animal
The Inspector
The Harvest of Flame
The Spark of Manhood
Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Wally
The Gratitude of Wanda
Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Wall of Money
Gentleman Crook
The Heart of a Cracksman
Gentleman Crook
The Cracksman's Reformation
Wally - the Doctor
The Fires of Fate
Wally
Cross Purposes
Reid
Retribution
Gentleman Crook
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Reid
The Lightning Bolt
A Hopi Legend
Wally
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
The Woodsman
The Intruder
Wallace
The Countess Betty's Mine
Wally - the Ranch Owner
Love's Western Flight
James Weldon
The Yellow Pawn
Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Wall of Flame
The Wrong Heart
Bud Walton
The Craven
Ford
The Lost House
Jim Manning
Station Content
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
A Yankee from the West
Danny Mallory
The Chorus Lady
Wally Bristow
A Wife on a Wager
Lt. Wallace
'Cross the Mexican Line
Wallace
The Den of Thieves
The Country Boy
The City Beautiful
John Ward - the Man from the Sea
Down by the Sounding Sea
The Doctor (uncredited)
The Avenging Conscience
Lawson Keene
Moonshine Molly
Samuel Roebuck
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Tim - the Pony Express Rider
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Dick Raleigh
The High Grader
Marcus Down
Down the Hill to Creditville
The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Doggy
Bob Turner
Her Awakening
Frank Bell
For Her Father's Sins
Wallace Burton - the Son
A Mother's Influence
Elmer Kent
The Niggard
Curtiss
The Odalisque
Detective Flynn
Another Chance
Bob
Over the Ledge
The Lieutenant
At Dawn
The Joke on Yellentown
The Reporter
The Exposure
Captain Ralph Percy
To Have and to Hold
Dan Derring
The Love Mask
Tom Morley
The Selfish Woman
Tom Wells
The House with the Golden Windows
James Roger Ralston
The Golden Fetter
John King
The Man Who Saved the Day
The Tell-Tale Arm
Huntington Babbs
The Prison Without Walls
Bob Fulton
The World Apart
Lord Effington, aka Hal
The Squaw Man's Son
Lieutenant Kemper
The Hostage
Rimrock Jones
Rimrock Jones
George MacFarland
Believe Me, Xantippe
Devereux Bayne
The Firefly of France
Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
Less Than Kin
Van Twiller Yard
The Source
The Husband
His Extra Bit
Larry Young
Alias Mike Moran
Jack Wright
The Lottery Man
'Speed' Carr
Double Speed
Austin Bevans
The Charm School
'Dusty' Rhoades
Too Much Speed
Teddy Darman
The Hell Diggers
Clarence Smith
Clarence
Father
Baby's Ride
Don Jose
Carmen
Walter Fenn
Enoch Arden
Alvarado
The Woman God Forgot
Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
The Roaring Road
'Toodles' Walden
Excuse My Dust
Sullivan
Arms and the Gringo
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self
A Trip to Paramountown
Captain Billy Wade
Nice People
Jack Fife
Big Timber
Prince Karl Heinrich
Old Heidelberg
Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Roger Manning
The Golden Chance
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Clerk
Diamond Cut Diamond
Robert Chapman - the Son
Every Inch a Man
Chingachgook
The Deerslayer
Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Birth of a Nation
Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The Ghost Breaker
Jim Glover
The Love Special
William Burroughs
The World's Champion
Dr. Reid
The Spirit of the Flag
Andreas
Maria Rosa
Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Peter Ibbetson
Forever
Bryce Cardigan
The Valley of the Giants
Dusty Rhoades
What's Your Hurry?
(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
Jean Gaudet / Will
The Three Brothers
Lieutenant Hawkhurst
The Little Country Mouse
Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
Always Audacious
Reginald Jay
Sick Abed
Billy Deering
You're Fired
Brooke Travers
The Dictator
Guy Sterling
The Devil Stone
Self
Night Life in Hollywood
Cullen Dale
Don't Tell Everything
Henry de Spain
Nan of Music Mountain
Jimmy Dent
Across the Continent
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
215
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-04-14
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
William Wallace Halleck Reid