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: Acting

Born: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, 1891-04-14

Died: 1923-01-18

Wallace Reid

Film

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1910	The Phoenix	Young Reporter	0
2	1911	The Leading Lady		0
3	1911	The Reporter	Cohn, Jones' Assistant	0
4	1911	The Mother of the Ranch	The Mother's Friend Back East	0
5	1911	War	Midas	95
6	1912	The Seepore Rebellion	Extra	0
7	1912	A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli		0
8	1912	The Path of True Love	The Country Boy	0
9	1912	Chumps	George - the Denouement	0
10	1912	Jean Intervenes	Billy Hallock	0
11	1912	Indian Romeo and Juliet	Oniatore / Romeo	0
12	1912	Playmates	Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)	40
13	1912	The Telephone Girl	Jack Watson	0
14	1912	The Seventh Son	One of the Beecham Brothers	0
15	1912	The Illumination	Giuseppe's Father	0
16	1912	At Scrogginses' Corner		0
17	1912	Brothers		0
18	1912	The Victoria Cross	Lt. Cholmodeley	50
19	1912	The Hieroglyphic		0
20	1912	Fortunes of a Composer	Opera Attendee (uncredited)	40
21	1912	Diamond Cut Diamond	Clerk	60
22	1912	Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight	Basil Underwood	0
23	1912	Kaintuck	The Artist	0
24	1912	Virginius	Icilius	0
25	1912	The Gamblers	Arthur Ingraham	0
26	1912	Before the White Man Came	Wathuma - the Leopard	0
27	1912	A Man's Duty	Dick Wilson - Union Soldier	0
28	1912	At Cripple Creek	Joe Mayfield	0
29	1912	Making Good	Billy Burns	0
30	1912	The Secret Service Man	The Secret Service Man	0
31	1912	The Indian Raiders	Tom	0
32	1912	His Only Son	Bob Madden	0
33	1912	Every Inch a Man	Robert Chapman - the Son	0
34	1912	Early Days in the West	Dan, a Young Pioneer	0
35	1912	Hunted Down	John Dayton	0
36	1912	A Daughter of the Redskins	Captain Stark, U.S.A.	0
37	1912	The Cowboy Guardians		0
38	1912	The Tribal Law	Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave	0
39	1912	An Indian Outcast	Wally, a Cowboy	0
40	1912	The Hidden Treasure	Bill Binks	0
41	1913	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Dorian Gray	0
42	1913	Love and the Law	Sheriff John Allen	0
43	1913	Pirate Gold		0
44	1913	Their Masterpiece	Jack Sanders	0
45	1913	A Rose of Old Mexico	Paul Hapgood	0
46	1913	Near To Earth		0
47	1913	The Eye of a God	Frank Hammond	0
48	1913	The Ways of Fate	Jim Conway	0
49	1913	When Jim Returned	Jim	50
50	1913	The Tattooed Arm	Ben Hart	0
51	1913	The Brothers	Robert Gregory	0
52	1913	The Deerslayer	Chingachgook	62
53	1913	Youth and Jealousy	Ben	0
54	1913	The Kiss	Ralph Walters	0
55	1913	A Modern Snare	Ralph - the New Sheriff	0
56	1913	Her Innocent Marriage	Will Wayne	0
57	1913	On the Border	Bill Reeves - the Cowboy	0
58	1913	His Mother's Son		0
59	1913	When Luck Changes	Cal Jim	0
60	1913	Via Cabaret	Harry Reeder	0
61	1913	The Spirit of the Flag	Dr. Reid	50
62	1913	Hearts and Horses	Bill Walters	0
63	1913	In Love and War	David - the Journalist	0
64	1913	Women and War	The Boy	0
65	1913	The Guerilla Menace	Captain Bruce Douglas	0
66	1913	Calamity Anne Takes a Trip	Policeman	0
67	1913	Song Bird of the North	Fowle - a Mission Worker	0
68	1913	Pride of Lonesome	Edward Daton	0
69	1913	The Powder Flash of Death	Captain Bruce Douglas	0
70	1913	A Foreign Spy		0
71	1913	The Picket Guard	Sentry	0
72	1913	Mental Suicide	Reid - a Contractor	0
73	1913	Man's Duty	Bill, the Selfish One	0
74	1913	An Even Exchange	Joe	0
75	1913	The Animal	The Animal	0
76	1913	The Harvest of Flame	The Inspector	0
77	1913	The Spark of Manhood		0
78	1913	The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine	Reid - Rosson's Brother	0
79	1913	The Gratitude of Wanda	Wally	0
80	1913	The Wall of Money	Wallace - McQuarrie's Son	0
81	1913	The Heart of a Cracksman	Gentleman Crook	0
82	1913	The Cracksman's Reformation	Gentleman Crook	0
83	1913	The Fires of Fate	Wally - the Doctor	0
84	1913	Cross Purposes	Wally	0
85	1913	Retribution	Reid	0
86	1913	A Cracksman Santa Claus	Gentleman Crook	0
87	1913	The Lightning Bolt	Reid	0
88	1913	A Hopi Legend		0
89	1914	Whoso Diggeth a Pit	Wally	0
90	1914	The Intruder	The Woodsman	0
91	1914	The Countess Betty's Mine	Wallace	0
92	1914	The Wheel of Life	The Prospector	0
93	1914	Fires of Conscience	Ray - the Prospector	0
94	1914	The Greater Devotion	'Devotion'	0
95	1914	A Flash in the Dark	A Miner	0
96	1914	Breed o' the Mountains	Joe Mayfield	0
97	1914	Regeneration	The Artist	0
98	1914	The Voice of the Viola	Wallace	0
99	1914	The Heart of the Hills	Dave - the Woodsman	0
100	1914	The Mountaineer	Jim - the Mountaineer	0
101	1914	The Way of a Woman	Pierre	0
102	1914	The Spider and Her Web		0
103	1914	Cupid Incognito	Jack Falkner	0
104	1914	A Gypsy Romance	Jose - King of the Gypsies	0
105	1914	The Test	The Poor Man	50
106	1914	The Skeleton	Jack - the Young Husband	0
107	1914	The Fruit of Evil		0
108	1914	The Daughter of a Crook	Neal	0
109	1914	Women and Roses	Wallace	0
110	1914	The Quack	Wallace Rosslyn	0
111	1914	The Siren	Dane Northrop	0
112	1914	The Man Within	The Outlaw	0
113	1914	Passing of the Beast	Jacques - the Woodsman	0
114	1914	Love's Western Flight	Wally - the Ranch Owner	0
115	1914	A Wife on a Wager	Wally Bristow	0
116	1914	'Cross the Mexican Line	Lt. Wallace	0
117	1914	The Den of Thieves	Wallace	0
118	1914	Arms and the Gringo	Sullivan	0
119	1914	The City Beautiful	The Country Boy	0
120	1914	Down by the Sounding Sea	John Ward - the Man from the Sea	0
121	1914	Moonshine Molly	Lawson Keene	0
122	1914	The Avenging Conscience	The Doctor (uncredited)	61
123	1914	The Second Mrs. Roebuck	Samuel Roebuck	0
124	1914	Sierra Jim's Reformation	Tim - the Pony Express Rider	0
125	1914	The High Grader	Dick Raleigh	0
126	1914	Down the Hill to Creditville	Marcus Down	0
127	1914	Her Awakening	Bob Turner	0
128	1914	Her Doggy	The Doctor (unconfirmed)	0
129	1914	For Her Father's Sins	Frank Bell	0
130	1914	A Mother's Influence	Wallace Burton - the Son	0
131	1914	The Niggard	Elmer Kent	0
132	1914	The Odalisque	Curtiss	0
133	1914	The Little Country Mouse	Lieutenant Hawkhurst	50
134	1914	Another Chance	Detective Flynn	0
135	1914	Over the Ledge	Bob	0
136	1914	At Dawn	The Lieutenant	0
137	1914	The Joke on Yellentown		0
138	1914	The Exposure	The Reporter	0
139	1914	Baby's Ride	Father	0
140	1915	The Three Brothers	Jean Gaudet / Will	0
141	1915	The Craven	Bud Walton	0
142	1915	The Birth of a Nation	Jeff, the Blacksmith	60
143	1915	The Lost House	Ford	0
144	1915	Enoch Arden	Walter Fenn	63
145	1915	Station Content	Jim Manning	0
146	1915	A Yankee from the West	Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud	0
147	1915	The Chorus Lady	Danny Mallory	0
148	1915	Carmen	Don Jose	61
149	1915	Old Heidelberg	Prince Karl Heinrich	40
150	1915	The Golden Chance	Roger Manning	65
151	1916	To Have and to Hold	Captain Ralph Percy	0
152	1916	The Love Mask	Dan Derring	0
153	1916	Maria Rosa	Andreas	0
154	1916	The Selfish Woman	Tom Morley	0
155	1916	The House with the Golden Windows	Tom Wells	0
156	1916	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)	71
157	1916	The Yellow Pawn	James Weldon	0
158	1916	The Wall of Flame	Wallace - the Fire Inspector	0
159	1916	The Wrong Heart		0
160	1916	Joan the Woman	Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917	56
161	1917	The Golden Fetter	James Roger Ralston	0
162	1917	The Man Who Saved the Day	John King	0
163	1917	The Prison Without Walls	Huntington Babbs	0
164	1917	The Tell-Tale Arm		0
165	1917	The World Apart	Bob Fulton	0
166	1917	Big Timber	Jack Fife	0
167	1917	The Squaw Man's Son	Lord Effington, aka Hal	0
168	1917	The Hostage	Lieutenant Kemper	0
169	1917	The Woman God Forgot	Alvarado	58
170	1917	Nan of Music Mountain	Henry de Spain	0
171	1917	The Devil Stone	Guy Sterling	0
172	1918	Rimrock Jones	Rimrock Jones	0
173	1918	The Thing We Love	Rodney Sheridan	0
174	1918	The House of Silence	Marcel Levington	0
175	1918	Believe Me, Xantippe	George MacFarland	0
176	1918	The Firefly of France	Devereux Bayne	0
177	1918	Less Than Kin	Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers	0
178	1918	The Source	Van Twiller Yard	0
179	1918	His Extra Bit	The Husband	0
180	1918	The Man from Funeral Range	Harry Webb	0
181	1918	Too Many Millions	Walsingham Van Doren	0
182	1919	The Dub	John Craig (The 'Dub')	0
183	1919	Alias Mike Moran	Larry Young	0
184	1919	The Roaring Road	Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden	58
185	1919	You're Fired	Billy Deering	0
186	1919	The Love Burglar	David Strong	0
187	1919	The Valley of the Giants	Bryce Cardigan	55
188	1919	The Lottery Man	Jack Wright	0
189	1919	Hawthorne of the U.S.A.	Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne	62
190	1920	Double Speed	'Speed' Carr	0
191	1920	Excuse My Dust	'Toodles' Walden	57
192	1920	The Dancin' Fool	Sylvester Tibble	0
193	1920	Sick Abed	Reginald Jay	0
194	1920	What's Your Hurry?	Dusty Rhoades	0
195	1920	Always Audacious	Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks	0
196	1921	The Charm School	Austin Bevans	0
197	1921	The Love Special	Jim Glover	0
198	1921	Too Much Speed	'Dusty' Rhoades	0
199	1921	The Hell Diggers	Teddy Darman	50
200	1921	The Affairs of Anatol	Anatol Spencer	56
201	1921	Forever	Peter Ibbetson	0
202	1921	Don't Tell Everything	Cullen Dale	0
203	1922	Rent Free	Buell Arnister Jr	0
204	1922	The World's Champion	William Burroughs	0
205	1922	Across the Continent	Jimmy Dent	0
206	1922	The Dictator	Brooke Travers	0
207	1922	A Trip to Paramountown	Self	73
208	1922	Nice People	Captain Billy Wade	0
209	1922	The Ghost Breaker	Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker	0
210	1922	Clarence	Clarence Smith	0
211	1922	Night Life in Hollywood	Self	0
212	1922	Thirty Days	John Floyd	0
213	1931	The House That Shadows Built	(archive footage)	70
214	1942	Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)	Self (archive footage)	0
215	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0