Wallace Reid
Acting
🎂 1891-04-14
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.
Cast credits(215)
Jeff, the Blacksmith
1915
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
1916
Anatol Spencer
1921
Cullen Dale
1921
The Doctor (uncredited)
1914
Self (archive footage)
1961
Alvarado
1917
Don Jose
1915
Henry de Spain
1917
Midas
1911
1913
Frank Bell
1914
Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
1916
Self (archive footage)
1942
Prince Karl Heinrich
1915
'Toodles' Walden
1920
Paul Hapgood
1913
Lieutenant Hawkhurst
1914
Chingachgook
1913
John Floyd
1922
1912
Andreas
1916
Dorian Gray
1913
Jimmy Dent
1922
Devereux Bayne
1918
Bob
1914
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1931
James Weldon
1916
Peter Ibbetson
1921
Self
1922
Captain Billy Wade
1922
Dr. Reid
1913
The Mother's Friend Back East
1911
Captain Ralph Percy
1916
'Speed' Carr
1920
Guy Sterling
1917
Jim
1913
Jim Glover
1921
Oniatore / Romeo
1912
The Country Boy
1914
Robert Gregory
1913
Brooke Travers
1922
Reginald Jay
1920
Wally
1914
Danny Mallory
1915
John Craig (The 'Dub')
1919
Dan Derring
1916
1913
Bob Fulton
1917
Jim - the Mountaineer
1914
Teddy Darman
1921
Roger Manning
1915
Policeman
1913
Gentleman Crook
1913
Ben Hart
1913
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
1912
One of the Beecham Brothers
1912
Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
1920
Jack Fife
1917
Rodney Sheridan
1918
Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
1922
Austin Bevans
1921
1913
Bill, the Selfish One
1913
Bryce Cardigan
1919
Cal Jim
1913
The Boy
1913
Wathuma - the Leopard
1912
Walsingham Van Doren
1918
Tom Morley
1916
Tom Wells
1916
Ford
1915
Elmer Kent
1914
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Clarence Smith
1922
The Prospector
1914
Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
1919
Jean Gaudet / Will
1915
Will Wayne
1913
John Dayton
1912
Jack Wright
1919
1914
David - the Journalist
1913
William Burroughs
1922
Wally, a Cowboy
1912
The Lieutenant
1914
Reid - Rosson's Brother
1913
Rimrock Jones
1918
Lieutenant Kemper
1917
The Artist
1912
Ben
1913
A Miner
1914
Young Reporter
1910
Giuseppe's Father
1912
Bill Walters
1913
Gentleman Crook
1913
Reid - a Contractor
1913
Dane Northrop
1914
Buell Arnister Jr
1922
Gentleman Crook
1913
Father
1914
'Dusty' Rhoades
1921
The Poor Man
1914
1913
The Woodsman
1914
Captain Bruce Douglas
1913
Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
1912
Curtiss
1914
Samuel Roebuck
1914
Wallace Burton - the Son
1914
Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
1919
Billy Hallock
1912
Jacques - the Woodsman
1914
The Country Boy
1912
Jack Sanders
1913
Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
1918
Harry Webb
1918
Walter Fenn
1915
George MacFarland
1918
Robert Chapman - the Son
1912
Captain Stark, U.S.A.
1912
Fowle - a Mission Worker
1913
Wallace
1914
Bob Turner
1914
Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
1913
Joe Mayfield
1912
Jim Conway
1913
The Outlaw
1914
Bud Walton
1915
George - the Denouement
1912
Reid
1913
1911
Frank Hammond
1913
Lawson Keene
1914
Self
1922
Reid
1913
The Reporter
1914
Bill Binks
1912
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
1915
Clerk
1912
Billy Deering
1919
1912
Arthur Ingraham
1912
Larry Young
1919
Billy Burns
1912
Edward Daton
1913
Wally - the Ranch Owner
1914
Marcel Levington
1918
Ray - the Prospector
1914
Dave - the Woodsman
1914
Wallace
1914
Lord Effington, aka Hal
1917
Lt. Cholmodeley
1912
John Ward - the Man from the Sea
1914
Harry Reeder
1913
Dan, a Young Pioneer
1912
Sullivan
1914
Ralph Walters
1913
Ralph - the New Sheriff
1913
1912
Wally
1913
Bob Madden
1912
1914
Pierre
1914
Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
1913
Wallace Rosslyn
1914
Sentry
1913
Dick Raleigh
1914
David Strong
1919
Jack Watson
1912
Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
1912
Captain Bruce Douglas
1913
Van Twiller Yard
1918
1913
Jack Falkner
1914
Jim Manning
1915
Jack - the Young Husband
1914
Tim - the Pony Express Rider
1914
Icilius
1912
'Devotion'
1914
Sylvester Tibble
1920
Huntington Babbs
1917
Cohn, Jones' Assistant
1911
Wally
1913
Wallace
1914
James Roger Ralston
1917
Detective Flynn
1914
Basil Underwood
1912
Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
1912
Joe Mayfield
1914
The Secret Service Man
1912
The Animal
1913
1912
Sheriff John Allen
1913
1913
Extra
1912
The Artist
1914
Wally Bristow
1914
1912
The Inspector
1913
Jose - King of the Gypsies
1914
The Husband
1918
Wallace
1914
John King
1917
Wally - the Doctor
1913
Dusty Rhoades
1920
1917
Tom
1912
Lt. Wallace
1914
Neal
1914
1916
Wallace - the Fire Inspector
1916
Marcus Down
1914
The Doctor (unconfirmed)
1914
Joe
1913
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