Wallace Reid
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: April 14, 1891
Day of Death: January 18, 1923 (32 years old)
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
1961
1942
1931
1922
Actor Buell Arnister Jr
Rent Free
Actor John Floyd
Thirty Days
Actor Clarence Smith
Clarence
Actor Self
A Trip to Paramountown
Actor Captain Billy Wade
Nice People
Actor Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The Ghost Breaker
Actor William Burroughs
The World's Champion
Actor Brooke Travers
The Dictator
Actor Self
Night Life in Hollywood
Actor Jimmy Dent
Across the Continent
1921
1920
1919
Actor David Strong
The Love Burglar
Actor John Craig (The 'Dub')
The Dub
Actor Larry Young
Alias Mike Moran
Actor Jack Wright
The Lottery Man
Actor Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
The Roaring Road
Actor Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Actor Bryce Cardigan
The Valley of the Giants
Actor Billy Deering
You're Fired
1918
Actor Marcel Levington
The House of Silence
Actor Walsingham Van Doren
Too Many Millions
Actor Rodney Sheridan
The Thing We Love
Actor Harry Webb
The Man from Funeral Range
Actor Rimrock Jones
Rimrock Jones
Actor Devereux Bayne
The Firefly of France
Actor George MacFarland
Believe Me, Xantippe
Actor Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
Less Than Kin
Actor The Husband
His Extra Bit
Actor Van Twiller Yard
The Source
1917
Actor Huntington Babbs
The Prison Without Walls
Actor John King
The Man Who Saved the Day
Actor James Roger Ralston
The Golden Fetter
Actor
The Tell-Tale Arm
Actor Lieutenant Kemper
The Hostage
Actor Lord Effington, aka Hal
The Squaw Man's Son
Actor Bob Fulton
The World Apart
Actor Alvarado
The Woman God Forgot
Actor Jack Fife
Big Timber
Actor Guy Sterling
The Devil Stone
Actor Henry de Spain
Nan of Music Mountain
Director
The Man Who Saved the Day
1916
Actor Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Joan the Woman
Actor Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Wall of Flame
Actor
The Wrong Heart
Actor James Weldon
The Yellow Pawn
Actor Captain Ralph Percy
To Have and to Hold
Actor Tom Wells
The House with the Golden Windows
Actor Tom Morley
The Selfish Woman
Actor Dan Derring
The Love Mask
Actor Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Actor Andreas
Maria Rosa
Director
The Wrong Heart
Scenario Writer
The Wrong Heart
1915
Actor Ford
The Lost House
Actor Jim Manning
Station Content
Actor Bud Walton
The Craven
Actor Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
A Yankee from the West
Actor Danny Mallory
The Chorus Lady
Actor Don Jose
Carmen
Actor Walter Fenn
Enoch Arden
Actor Prince Karl Heinrich
Old Heidelberg
Actor Roger Manning
The Golden Chance
Actor Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Birth of a Nation
Actor Jean Gaudet / Will
The Three Brothers
1914
Actor Dave - the Woodsman
The Heart of the Hills
Actor The Prospector
The Wheel of Life
Actor Ray - the Prospector
Fires of Conscience
Actor A Miner
A Flash in the Dark
Actor Joe Mayfield
Breed o' the Mountains
Actor 'Devotion'
The Greater Devotion
Actor The Artist
Regeneration
Actor Wallace
The Voice of the Viola
Actor
The Spider and Her Web
Actor Jack Falkner
Cupid Incognito
Actor The Poor Man
The Test
Actor Pierre
The Way of a Woman
Actor Jose - King of the Gypsies
A Gypsy Romance
Actor Jim - the Mountaineer
The Mountaineer
Actor Jack - the Young Husband
The Skeleton
Actor
The Fruit of Evil
Actor Wallace
Women and Roses
Actor Neal
The Daughter of a Crook
Actor Wallace Rosslyn
The Quack
Actor Dane Northrop
The Siren
Actor The Outlaw
The Man Within
Actor Jacques - the Woodsman
Passing of the Beast
Actor Wally
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Actor The Woodsman
The Intruder
Actor Wallace
The Countess Betty's Mine
Actor Wally - the Ranch Owner
Love's Western Flight
Actor Lawson Keene
Moonshine Molly
Actor Samuel Roebuck
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Actor Lt. Wallace
'Cross the Mexican Line
Actor John Ward - the Man from the Sea
Down by the Sounding Sea
Actor The Country Boy
The City Beautiful
Actor The Doctor (uncredited)
The Avenging Conscience
Actor Wally Bristow
A Wife on a Wager
Actor Wallace
The Den of Thieves
Actor Frank Bell
For Her Father's Sins
Actor Marcus Down
Down the Hill to Creditville
Actor Dick Raleigh
The High Grader
Actor Bob Turner
Her Awakening
Actor Tim - the Pony Express Rider
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Actor The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Doggy
Actor Curtiss
The Odalisque
Actor The Lieutenant
At Dawn
Actor Elmer Kent
The Niggard
Actor Bob
Over the Ledge
Actor Detective Flynn
Another Chance
Actor Wallace Burton - the Son
A Mother's Influence
Actor The Reporter
The Exposure
Actor
The Joke on Yellentown
Actor Father
Baby's Ride
Actor Sullivan
Arms and the Gringo
Actor Lieutenant Hawkhurst
The Little Country Mouse
Writer
The Heart of the Hills
Director
The Heart of the Hills
Director
The Countess Betty's Mine
Director
The Intruder
Director
The Greater Devotion
Director
Fires of Conscience
Director
A Flash in the Dark
Director
The Wheel of Life
Director
Breed o' the Mountains
Director
Regeneration
Director
The Mountaineer
Director
The Way of a Woman
Director
The Voice of the Viola
Writer
The Mountaineer
Writer
Cupid Incognito
Director
The Test
Director
Cupid Incognito
Director
A Gypsy Romance
Director
The Skeleton
Director
Love's Western Flight
Director
The Fruit of Evil
Writer
The Fruit of Evil
Scenario Writer
Down by the Sounding Sea
Director
A Wife on a Wager
Director
'Cross the Mexican Line
Director
The Den of Thieves
Director
The Quack
Writer
Women and Roses
Director
Women and Roses
Director
The Siren
Director
The Man Within
Director
Passing of the Beast
1913
Actor
His Mother's Son
Actor Sheriff John Allen
Love and the Law
Actor Fowle - a Mission Worker
Song Bird of the North
Actor
Pirate Gold
Actor Policeman
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Actor Captain Bruce Douglas
The Guerilla Menace
Actor Jack Sanders
Their Masterpiece
Actor
A Foreign Spy
Actor Reid - a Contractor
Mental Suicide
Actor Captain Bruce Douglas
The Powder Flash of Death
Actor Sentry
The Picket Guard
Actor Edward Daton
Pride of Lonesome
Actor Frank Hammond
The Eye of a God
Actor Paul Hapgood
A Rose of Old Mexico
Actor Jim Conway
The Ways of Fate
Actor Jim
When Jim Returned
Actor
Near To Earth
Actor Ben Hart
The Tattooed Arm
Actor Robert Gregory
The Brothers
Actor Ben
Youth and Jealousy
Actor Ralph Walters
The Kiss
Actor Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
On the Border
Actor Will Wayne
Her Innocent Marriage
Actor Ralph - the New Sheriff
A Modern Snare
Actor Cal Jim
When Luck Changes
Actor David - the Journalist
In Love and War
Actor Harry Reeder
Via Cabaret
Actor The Boy
Women and War
Actor Bill Walters
Hearts and Horses
Actor Bill, the Selfish One
Man's Duty
Actor Joe
An Even Exchange
Actor The Inspector
The Harvest of Flame
Actor The Animal
The Animal
Actor
The Spark of Manhood
Actor Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Actor Wally
The Gratitude of Wanda
Actor Gentleman Crook
The Cracksman's Reformation
Actor Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Wall of Money
Actor Gentleman Crook
The Heart of a Cracksman
Actor Wally
Cross Purposes
Actor Wally - the Doctor
The Fires of Fate
Actor Reid
Retribution
Actor Reid
The Lightning Bolt
Actor
A Hopi Legend
Actor Gentleman Crook
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Actor Chingachgook
The Deerslayer
Actor Dr. Reid
The Spirit of the Flag
Actor Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Director
A Rose of Old Mexico
Director
The Ways of Fate
Writer
When Jim Returned
Writer
The Tattooed Arm
Director
The Tattooed Arm
Director
When Jim Returned
Director
The Brothers
Director
Youth and Jealousy
Director
The Kiss
Director
A Modern Snare
Director
Her Innocent Marriage
Director
On the Border
Director
The Heart of a Cracksman
Writer
The Heart of a Cracksman
Director
Retribution
Director
The Fires of Fate
Scenario Writer
The Fires of Fate
Director
Cross Purposes
Writer
The Cracksman's Reformation
Writer
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Writer
A Hopi Legend
Director
The Lightning Bolt
Writer
The Lightning Bolt
Director
A Hopi Legend
Director
When Luck Changes
Director
Via Cabaret
Writer
Women and War
Director
Hearts and Horses
Director
Pride of Lonesome
Writer
Mental Suicide
Director
A Foreign Spy
Director
The Harvest of Flame
Director
The Spark of Manhood
Writer
The Harvest of Flame
Director
The Gratitude of Wanda
Director
Love and the Law
Scenario Writer
Love and the Law
Writer
The Spirit of the Flag
Director
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1912
Actor Tom
The Indian Raiders
Actor Bob Madden
His Only Son
Actor Oniatore / Romeo
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Actor Jack Watson
The Telephone Girl
Actor
At Scrogginses' Corner
Actor
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
Actor The Country Boy
The Path of True Love
Actor Billy Hallock
Jean Intervenes
Actor Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Playmates
Actor George - the Denouement
Chumps
Actor Lt. Cholmodeley
The Victoria Cross
Actor One of the Beecham Brothers
The Seventh Son
Actor Giuseppe's Father
The Illumination
Actor
Brothers
Actor Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Fortunes of a Composer
Actor
The Hieroglyphic
Actor Dan, a Young Pioneer
Early Days in the West
Actor Wathuma - the Leopard
Before the White Man Came
Actor Icilius
Virginius
Actor Basil Underwood
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Actor The Artist
Kaintuck
Actor Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
A Man's Duty
Actor The Secret Service Man
The Secret Service Man
Actor Billy Burns
Making Good
Actor Joe Mayfield
At Cripple Creek
Actor Arthur Ingraham
The Gamblers
Actor John Dayton
Hunted Down
Actor Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
The Tribal Law
Actor Extra
The Seepore Rebellion
Actor Captain Stark, U.S.A.
A Daughter of the Redskins
Actor
The Cowboy Guardians
Actor Wally, a Cowboy
An Indian Outcast
Actor Bill Binks
The Hidden Treasure
Actor Clerk
Diamond Cut Diamond
Actor Robert Chapman - the Son
Every Inch a Man
Scenario Writer
Chumps
Writer
Before the White Man Came
Director
The Tribal Law
Writer
The Tribal Law
Director
The Hidden Treasure
