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