Wallace Reid
Acting
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
Acting217
movieThe Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
Self (archive footage)
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Movie Album
1932
(archive footage)
movieThe House That Shadows Built
1931
(archive footage)
movieThirty Days
1922
John Floyd
movieClarence
1922
Clarence Smith
movieThe Ghost Breaker
1922
Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
movieNice People
1922
Captain Billy Wade
movieThe Dictator
1922
Brooke Travers
movieAcross the Continent
1922
Jimmy Dent
movieThe World's Champion
1922
William Burroughs
movieRent Free
1922
Buell Arnister Jr
movieDon't Tell Everything
1921
Cullen Dale
movieForever
1921
Peter Ibbetson
movieThe Affairs of Anatol
1921
Anatol Spencer
movieThe Hell Diggers
1921
Teddy Darman
movieToo Much Speed
1921
'Dusty' Rhoades
movieThe Love Special
1921
Jim Glover
movieThe Charm School
1921
Austin Bevans
movieAlways Audacious
1920
Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
movieWhat's Your Hurry?
1920
Dusty Rhoades
movieSick Abed
1920
Reginald Jay
movieThe Dancin' Fool
1920
Sylvester Tibble
movieExcuse My Dust
1920
'Toodles' Walden
movieDouble Speed
1920
'Speed' Carr
movieHawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
movieThe Lottery Man
1919
Jack Wright
movieThe Valley of the Giants
1919
Bryce Cardigan
movieThe Love Burglar
1919
David Strong
movieYou're Fired
1919
Billy Deering
movieThe Roaring Road
1919
Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
movieAlias Mike Moran
1919
Larry Young
movieThe Dub
1919
John Craig (The 'Dub')
movieToo Many Millions
1918
Walsingham Van Doren
movieThe Man from Funeral Range
1918
Harry Webb
His Extra Bit
1918
The Husband
movieThe Source
1918
Van Twiller Yard
movieLess Than Kin
1918
Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
movieThe Firefly of France
1918
Devereux Bayne
movieBelieve Me, Xantippe
1918
George MacFarland
movieThe House of Silence
1918
Marcel Levington
movieThe Thing We Love
1918
Rodney Sheridan
movieRimrock Jones
1918
Rimrock Jones
movieThe Devil Stone
1917
Guy Sterling
movieNan of Music Mountain
1917
Henry de Spain
movieThe Woman God Forgot
1917
Alvarado
movieThe Hostage
1917
Lieutenant Kemper
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
Lord Effington, aka Hal
movieBig Timber
1917
Jack Fife
movieThe World Apart
1917
Bob Fulton
movieThe Prison Without Walls
1917
Huntington Babbs
movieThe Golden Fetter
1917
James Roger Ralston
movieJoan the Woman
1916
Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
The Wall of Flame
1916
Wallace - the Fire Inspector
movieThe Yellow Pawn
1916
James Weldon
movieIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
movieThe Selfish Woman
1916
Tom Morley
movieMaria Rosa
1916
Andreas
movieThe Love Mask
1916
Dan Derring
movieTo Have and to Hold
1916
Captain Ralph Percy
movieThe Golden Chance
1915
Roger Manning
movieOld Heidelberg
1915
Prince Karl Heinrich
movieCarmen
1915
Don Jose
movieThe Chorus Lady
1915
Danny Mallory
A Yankee from the West
1915
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
movieStation Content
1915
Jim Manning
movieEnoch Arden
1915
Walter Fenn
movieThe Birth of a Nation
1915
Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Craven
1915
Bud Walton
movieThe Three Brothers
1915
Jean Gaudet / Will
The Exposure
1914
The Reporter
movieAt Dawn
1914
The Lieutenant
Another Chance
1914
Detective Flynn
movieThe Little Country Mouse
1914
Lieutenant Hawkhurst
The Niggard
1914
Elmer Kent
A Mother's Influence
1914
Wallace Burton - the Son
Her Doggy
1914
The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Awakening
1914
Bob Turner
The High Grader
1914
Dick Raleigh
Sierra Jim's Reformation
1914
Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
Samuel Roebuck
movieThe Avenging Conscience
1914
The Doctor (uncredited)
Moonshine Molly
1914
Lawson Keene
Down by the Sounding Sea
1914
John Ward - the Man from the Sea
The City Beautiful
1914
The Country Boy
movieArms and the Gringo
1914
Sullivan
movieThe Den of Thieves
1914
Wallace
movie'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
Lt. Wallace
A Wife on a Wager
1914
Wally Bristow
Love's Western Flight
1914
Wally - the Ranch Owner
Passing of the Beast
1914
Jacques - the Woodsman
The Man Within
1914
The Outlaw
The Siren
1914
Dane Northrop
The Quack
1914
Wallace Rosslyn
The Skeleton
1914
Jack - the Young Husband
The Test
1914
The Poor Man
A Gypsy Romance
1914
Jose - King of the Gypsies
Cupid Incognito
1914
Jack Falkner
The Mountaineer
1914
Jim - the Mountaineer
movieThe Heart of the Hills
1914
Dave - the Woodsman
Regeneration
1914
The Artist
Fires of Conscience
1914
Ray - the Prospector
The Wheel of Life
1914
The Prospector
The Intruder
1914
The Woodsman
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
Gentleman Crook
The Fires of Fate
1913
Wally - the Doctor
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
Gentleman Crook
The Wall of Money
1913
Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Spark of Manhood
1913
Humphrey Van Weyden
The Harvest of Flame
1913
The Inspector
The Animal
1913
The Animal
Man's Duty
1913
Bill, the Selfish One
Mental Suicide
1913
Reid - a Contractor
movieThe Powder Flash of Death
1913
Captain Bruce Douglas
Pride of Lonesome
1913
Edward Daton
Song Bird of the North
1913
Fowle - a Mission Worker
The Guerilla Menace
1913
Captain Bruce Douglas
In Love and War
1913
David - the Journalist
Hearts and Horses
1913
Bill Walters
Via Cabaret
1913
Harry Reeder
movieThe Spirit of the Flag
1913
Dr. Reid
On the Border
1913
Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
A Modern Snare
1913
Ralph - the New Sheriff
The Kiss
1913
Ralph Walters
movieThe Deerslayer
1913
Chingachgook
The Brothers
1913
Robert Gregory
The Eye of a God
1913
Frank Hammond
Their Masterpiece
1913
Jack Sanders
Love and the Law
1913
Sheriff John Allen
An Indian Outcast
1912
Wally, a Cowboy
The Tribal Law
1912
Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
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
movieHis Only Son
1912
Bob Madden
The Secret Service Man
1912
The Secret Service Man
Making Good
1912
Billy Burns
movieAt Cripple Creek
1912
Joe Mayfield
A Man's Duty
1912
Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
Before the White Man Came
1912
Wathuma - the Leopard
The Gamblers
1912
Arthur Ingraham
Virginius
1912
Icilius
Kaintuck
1912
The Artist
movieCurfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912
Basil Underwood
Fortunes of a Composer
1912
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
movieThe Victoria Cross
1912
Lt. Cholmodeley
movieThe Illumination
1912
Giuseppe's Father
movieThe Seventh Son
1912
One of the Beecham Brothers
moviePlaymates
1912
Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
movieIndian Romeo and Juliet
1912
Oniatore / Romeo
Jean Intervenes
1912
Billy Hallock
movieChumps
1912
George - the Denouement
The Path of True Love
1912
The Country Boy
War
1911
Midas
movieThe Mother of the Ranch
1911
The Mother's Friend Back East
The Reporter
1911
Cohn, Jones' Assistant
The Phoenix
1910
Young Reporter
Directing56
movieThe Den of Thieves
1914
Director
movie'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
Director
The Siren
1914
Director
The Quack
1914
Director
The Test
1914
Director
movieThe Heart of the Hills
1914
Director
Retribution
1913
Director
Via Cabaret
1913
Director
The Kiss
1913
Director
Writing23
The Wrong Heart
1916
Scenario Writer
Down by the Sounding Sea
1914
Scenario Writer
The Fires of Fate
1913
Scenario Writer
Love and the Law
1913
Scenario Writer
movieChumps
1912
Scenario Writer