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