Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 14, 1891
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.
Year | Movie | Role |
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1961 | The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) |
1942 | Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) |
1931 | The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) |
1922 | Rent Free | Buell Arnister Jr |
1922 | Thirty Days | John Floyd |
1922 | Clarence | Clarence Smith |
1922 | A Trip to Paramountown | Self |
1922 | Nice People | Captain Billy Wade |
1922 | The Ghost Breaker | Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker |
1922 | The World's Champion | William Burroughs |
1922 | The Dictator | Brooke Travers |
1922 | Night Life in Hollywood | Self |
1922 | Across the Continent | Jimmy Dent |
1921 | The Affairs of Anatol | Anatol Spencer |
1921 | Too Much Speed | 'Dusty' Rhoades |
1921 | The Charm School | Austin Bevans |
1921 | The Hell Diggers | Teddy Darman |
1921 | The Love Special | Jim Glover |
1921 | Forever | Peter Ibbetson |
1921 | Don't Tell Everything | Cullen Dale |
1920 | The Dancin' Fool | Sylvester Tibble |
1920 | Double Speed | 'Speed' Carr |
1920 | Excuse My Dust | 'Toodles' Walden |
1920 | What's Your Hurry? | Dusty Rhoades |
1920 | Always Audacious | Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks |
1920 | Sick Abed | Reginald Jay |
1919 | The Love Burglar | David Strong |
1919 | The Dub | John Craig (The 'Dub') |
1919 | The Lottery Man | Jack Wright |
1919 | Alias Mike Moran | Larry Young |
1919 | The Roaring Road | Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden |
1919 | Hawthorne of the U.S.A. | Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne |
1919 | The Valley of the Giants | Bryce Cardigan |
1919 | You're Fired | Billy Deering |
1918 | The House of Silence | Marcel Levington |
1918 | Too Many Millions | Walsingham Van Doren |
1918 | The Thing We Love | Rodney Sheridan |
1918 | The Man from Funeral Range | Harry Webb |
1918 | Rimrock Jones | Rimrock Jones |
1918 | The Firefly of France | Devereux Bayne |
1918 | Believe Me, Xantippe | George MacFarland |
1918 | The Source | Van Twiller Yard |
1918 | Less Than Kin | Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers |
1918 | His Extra Bit | The Husband |
1917 | The Golden Fetter | James Roger Ralston |
1917 | The Man Who Saved the Day | John King |
1917 | The Tell-Tale Arm | |
1917 | The Prison Without Walls | Huntington Babbs |
1917 | The World Apart | Bob Fulton |
1917 | The Squaw Man's Son | Lord Effington, aka Hal |
1917 | The Hostage | Lieutenant Kemper |
1917 | The Woman God Forgot | Alvarado |
1917 | Big Timber | Jack Fife |
1917 | The Devil Stone | Guy Sterling |
1917 | Nan of Music Mountain | Henry de Spain |
1916 | Joan the Woman | Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917 |
1916 | The Wall of Flame | Wallace - the Fire Inspector |
1916 | The Yellow Pawn | James Weldon |
1916 | The Wrong Heart | |
1916 | The Love Mask | Dan Derring |
1916 | To Have and to Hold | Captain Ralph Percy |
1916 | The House with the Golden Windows | Tom Wells |
1916 | The Selfish Woman | Tom Morley |
1916 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited) |
1916 | Maria Rosa | Andreas |
1915 | The Lost House | Ford |
1915 | Station Content | Jim Manning |
1915 | The Craven | Bud Walton |
1915 | A Yankee from the West | Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud |
1915 | The Chorus Lady | Danny Mallory |
1915 | Carmen | Don Jose |
1915 | Enoch Arden | Walter Fenn |
1915 | Old Heidelberg | Prince Karl Heinrich |
1915 | The Golden Chance | Roger Manning |
1915 | The Birth of a Nation | Jeff, the Blacksmith |
1915 | The Three Brothers | Jean Gaudet / Will |
1914 | The Heart of the Hills | Dave - the Woodsman |
1914 | The Wheel of Life | The Prospector |
1914 | A Flash in the Dark | A Miner |
1914 | The Greater Devotion | 'Devotion' |
1914 | Fires of Conscience | Ray - the Prospector |
1914 | Breed o' the Mountains | Joe Mayfield |
1914 | Regeneration | The Artist |
1914 | Cupid Incognito | Jack Falkner |
1914 | The Test | The Poor Man |
1914 | The Spider and Her Web | |
1914 | The Mountaineer | Jim - the Mountaineer |
1914 | The Voice of the Viola | Wallace |
1914 | The Way of a Woman | Pierre |
1914 | A Gypsy Romance | Jose - King of the Gypsies |
1914 | The Skeleton | Jack - the Young Husband |
1914 | The Fruit of Evil | |
1914 | The Quack | Wallace Rosslyn |
1914 | The Daughter of a Crook | Neal |
1914 | Women and Roses | Wallace |
1914 | The Siren | Dane Northrop |
1914 | Passing of the Beast | Jacques - the Woodsman |
1914 | The Man Within | The Outlaw |
1914 | The Intruder | The Woodsman |
1914 | Whoso Diggeth a Pit | Wally |
1914 | The Countess Betty's Mine | Wallace |
1914 | Love's Western Flight | Wally - the Ranch Owner |
1914 | Down by the Sounding Sea | John Ward - the Man from the Sea |
1914 | 'Cross the Mexican Line | Lt. Wallace |
1914 | A Wife on a Wager | Wally Bristow |
1914 | The Den of Thieves | Wallace |
1914 | The City Beautiful | The Country Boy |
1914 | For Her Father's Sins | Frank Bell |
1914 | Sierra Jim's Reformation | Tim - the Pony Express Rider |
1914 | Her Doggy | The Doctor (unconfirmed) |
1914 | Her Awakening | Bob Turner |
1914 | The Avenging Conscience | The Doctor (uncredited) |
1914 | Moonshine Molly | Lawson Keene |
1914 | Down the Hill to Creditville | Marcus Down |
1914 | The Second Mrs. Roebuck | Samuel Roebuck |
1914 | The High Grader | Dick Raleigh |
1914 | The Niggard | Elmer Kent |
1914 | The Odalisque | Curtiss |
1914 | Over the Ledge | Bob |
1914 | Another Chance | Detective Flynn |
1914 | A Mother's Influence | Wallace Burton - the Son |
1914 | At Dawn | The Lieutenant |
1914 | The Exposure | The Reporter |
1914 | The Joke on Yellentown | |
1914 | Baby's Ride | Father |
1914 | Arms and the Gringo | Sullivan |
1914 | The Little Country Mouse | Lieutenant Hawkhurst |
1913 | His Mother's Son | |
1913 | Love and the Law | Sheriff John Allen |
1913 | The Guerilla Menace | Captain Bruce Douglas |
1913 | Song Bird of the North | Fowle - a Mission Worker |
1913 | Their Masterpiece | Jack Sanders |
1913 | Calamity Anne Takes a Trip | Policeman |
1913 | Pirate Gold | |
1913 | Pride of Lonesome | Edward Daton |
1913 | The Powder Flash of Death | Captain Bruce Douglas |
1913 | The Picket Guard | Sentry |
1913 | A Foreign Spy | |
1913 | Mental Suicide | Reid - a Contractor |
1913 | A Rose of Old Mexico | Paul Hapgood |
1913 | The Eye of a God | Frank Hammond |
1913 | When Jim Returned | Jim |
1913 | Near To Earth | |
1913 | The Tattooed Arm | Ben Hart |
1913 | The Ways of Fate | Jim Conway |
1913 | The Brothers | Robert Gregory |
1913 | The Kiss | Ralph Walters |
1913 | Youth and Jealousy | Ben |
1913 | Her Innocent Marriage | Will Wayne |
1913 | A Modern Snare | Ralph - the New Sheriff |
1913 | On the Border | Bill Reeves - the Cowboy |
1913 | When Luck Changes | Cal Jim |
1913 | In Love and War | David - the Journalist |
1913 | Via Cabaret | Harry Reeder |
1913 | Hearts and Horses | Bill Walters |
1913 | Women and War | The Boy |
1913 | Man's Duty | Bill, the Selfish One |
1913 | An Even Exchange | Joe |
1913 | The Harvest of Flame | The Inspector |
1913 | The Animal | The Animal |
1913 | The Gratitude of Wanda | Wally |
1913 | The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine | Reid - Rosson's Brother |
1913 | The Spark of Manhood | Humphrey Van Weyden |
1913 | The Wall of Money | Wallace - McQuarrie's Son |
1913 | The Cracksman's Reformation | Gentleman Crook |
1913 | The Heart of a Cracksman | Gentleman Crook |
1913 | Cross Purposes | Wally |
1913 | The Fires of Fate | Wally - the Doctor |
1913 | Retribution | Reid |
1913 | A Hopi Legend | |
1913 | A Cracksman Santa Claus | Gentleman Crook |
1913 | The Lightning Bolt | Reid |
1913 | The Deerslayer | Chingachgook |
1913 | The Spirit of the Flag | Dr. Reid |
1913 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Dorian Gray |
1912 | The Indian Raiders | Tom |
1912 | His Only Son | Bob Madden |
1912 | A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli | |
1912 | The Seventh Son | One of the Beecham Brothers |
1912 | Chumps | George - the Denouement |
1912 | The Path of True Love | The Country Boy |
1912 | Jean Intervenes | Billy Hallock |
1912 | Playmates | Party Guest at Piano (uncredited) |
1912 | Indian Romeo and Juliet | Oniatore / Romeo |
1912 | The Illumination | Giuseppe's Father |
1912 | Brothers | |
1912 | The Victoria Cross | Lt. Cholmodeley |
1912 | At Scrogginses' Corner | |
1912 | The Telephone Girl | Jack Watson |
1912 | The Hieroglyphic | |
1912 | Fortunes of a Composer | Opera Attendee (uncredited) |
1912 | Early Days in the West | Dan, a Young Pioneer |
1912 | Virginius | Icilius |
1912 | Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight | Basil Underwood |
1912 | Kaintuck | The Artist |
1912 | At Cripple Creek | Joe Mayfield |
1912 | Before the White Man Came | Wathuma - the Leopard |
1912 | The Gamblers | Arthur Ingraham |
1912 | A Man's Duty | Dick Wilson - Union Soldier |
1912 | The Secret Service Man | The Secret Service Man |
1912 | Making Good | Billy Burns |
1912 | Hunted Down | John Dayton |
1912 | The Hidden Treasure | Bill Binks |
1912 | A Daughter of the Redskins | Captain Stark, U.S.A. |
1912 | The Seepore Rebellion | Extra |
1912 | The Cowboy Guardians | |
1912 | The Tribal Law | Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave |
1912 | An Indian Outcast | Wally, a Cowboy |
1912 | Diamond Cut Diamond | Clerk |
1912 | Every Inch a Man | Robert Chapman - the Son |
1911 | The Leading Lady | |
1911 | The Reporter | Cohn, Jones' Assistant |
1911 | War | Midas |
1911 | The Mother of the Ranch | The Mother's Friend Back East |
1910 | The Phoenix | Young Reporter |
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