Wallace Reid
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-04-14
Day of Death
1923-01-18 (31 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Wallace Reid
Biography
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
(1961)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1942)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1931)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1922)
The Dictator
as Brooke Travers
(1922)
The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
(1922)
Thirty Days
as John Floyd
(1922)
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1922)
Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
(1922)
The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
(1922)
Rent Free
as Buell Arnister Jr
(1922)
Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
(1922)
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
(1922)
Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
(1921)
The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
(1921)
Forever
as Peter Ibbetson
(1921)
Don't Tell Everything
as Cullen Dale
(1921)
The Love Special
as Jim Glover
(1921)
Too Much Speed
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
(1921)
The Hell Diggers
as Teddy Darman
(1921)
The Charm School
as Austin Bevans
(1920)
Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
(1920)
Always Audacious
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
(1920)
Sick Abed
as Reginald Jay
(1920)
Double Speed
as 'Speed' Carr
(1920)
What's Your Hurry?
as Dusty Rhoades
(1920)
The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
(1919)
The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
(1919)
The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
(1919)
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
(1919)
The Lottery Man
as Jack Wright
(1919)
The Dub
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
(1919)
The Love Burglar
as David Strong
(1919)
Alias Mike Moran
as Larry Young
(1919)
You're Fired
as Billy Deering
(1918)
The Man from Funeral Range
as Harry Webb
(1918)
Rimrock Jones
as Rimrock Jones
(1918)
Less Than Kin
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
(1918)
The Firefly of France
as Devereux Bayne
(1918)
The Source
as Van Twiller Yard
(1918)
Too Many Millions
as Walsingham Van Doren
(1918)
Believe Me, Xantippe
as George MacFarland
(1918)
The Thing We Love
as Rodney Sheridan
(1918)
His Extra Bit
as The Husband
(1918)
The House of Silence
as Marcel Levington
(1917)
The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
(1917)
The Devil Stone
as Guy Sterling
(1917)
The Prison Without Walls
as Huntington Babbs
(1917)
Big Timber
as Jack Fife
(1917)
The World Apart
as Bob Fulton
(1917)
Nan of Music Mountain
as Henry de Spain
(1917)
The Hostage
as Lieutenant Kemper
(1917)
(1917)
The Golden Fetter
as James Roger Ralston
(1917)
The Squaw Man's Son
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
(1917)
The Man Who Saved the Day
as John King
(1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
(1916)
Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
(1916)
The Yellow Pawn
as James Weldon
(1916)
The Love Mask
as Dan Derring
(1916)
Maria Rosa
as Andreas
(1916)
The Selfish Woman
as Tom Morley
(1916)
The House with the Golden Windows
as Tom Wells
(1916)
To Have and to Hold
as Captain Ralph Percy
(1916)
(1916)
The Wall of Flame
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
(1915)
The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
(1915)
Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
(1915)
Carmen
as Don Jose
(1915)
The Lost House
as Ford
(1915)
Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
(1915)
The Craven
as Bud Walton
(1915)
The Three Brothers
as Jean Gaudet / Will
(1915)
The Chorus Lady
as Danny Mallory
(1915)
A Yankee from the West
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
(1915)
Station Content
as Jim Manning
(1914)
The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
(1914)
The Little Country Mouse
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
(1914)
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Samuel Roebuck
(1914)
The Exposure
as The Reporter
(1914)
At Dawn
as The Lieutenant
(1914)
The Den of Thieves
as Wallace
(1914)
The Odalisque
as Curtiss
(1914)
For Her Father's Sins
as Frank Bell
(1914)
'Cross the Mexican Line
as Lt. Wallace
(1914)
(1914)
Love's Western Flight
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
(1914)
Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
(1914)
The City Beautiful
as The Country Boy
(1914)
The Quack
as Wallace Rosslyn
(1914)
The Voice of the Viola
as Wallace
(1914)
A Flash in the Dark
as A Miner
(1914)
Passing of the Beast
as Jacques - the Woodsman
(1914)
Baby's Ride
as Father
(1914)
Over the Ledge
as Bob
(1914)
A Mother's Influence
as Wallace Burton - the Son
(1914)
(1914)
The Way of a Woman
as Pierre
(1914)
Moonshine Molly
as Lawson Keene
(1914)
The Test
as The Poor Man
(1914)
The Siren
as Dane Northrop
(1914)
The Mountaineer
as Jim - the Mountaineer
(1914)
The Daughter of a Crook
as Neal
(1914)
Down by the Sounding Sea
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
(1914)
The Intruder
as The Woodsman
(1914)
Her Awakening
as Bob Turner
(1914)
The Niggard
as Elmer Kent
(1914)
The High Grader
as Dick Raleigh
(1914)
A Gypsy Romance
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
(1914)
Cupid Incognito
as Jack Falkner
(1914)
Down the Hill to Creditville
as Marcus Down
(1914)
Breed o' the Mountains
as Joe Mayfield
(1914)
The Heart of the Hills
as Dave - the Woodsman
(1914)
The Greater Devotion
as 'Devotion'
(1914)
Another Chance
as Detective Flynn
(1914)
The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector
(1914)
A Wife on a Wager
as Wally Bristow
(1914)
The Skeleton
as Jack - the Young Husband
(1914)
The Countess Betty's Mine
as Wallace
(1914)
The Man Within
as The Outlaw
(1914)
Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
(1914)
Regeneration
as The Artist
(1914)
Her Doggy
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
(1914)
Women and Roses
as Wallace
(1914)
Fires of Conscience
as Ray - the Prospector
(1914)
(1914)
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Wally
(1913)
Man's Duty
as Bill, the Selfish One
(1913)
(1913)
(1913)
The Cracksman's Reformation
as Gentleman Crook
(1913)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
(1913)
Retribution
as Reid
(1913)
The Heart of a Cracksman
as Gentleman Crook
(1913)
A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Gentleman Crook
(1913)
(1913)
(1913)
The Spirit of the Flag
as Dr. Reid
(1913)
In Love and War
as David - the Journalist
(1913)
When Jim Returned
as Jim
(1913)
The Tattooed Arm
as Ben Hart
(1913)
The Deerslayer
as Chingachgook
(1913)
Hearts and Horses
as Bill Walters
(1913)
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
as Policeman
(1913)
The Fires of Fate
as Wally - the Doctor
(1913)
The Gratitude of Wanda
as Wally
(1913)
Via Cabaret
as Harry Reeder
(1913)
The Brothers
as Robert Gregory
(1913)
Song Bird of the North
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
(1913)
When Luck Changes
as Cal Jim
(1913)
Pride of Lonesome
as Edward Daton
(1913)
Youth and Jealousy
as Ben
(1913)
The Kiss
as Ralph Walters
(1913)
Mental Suicide
as Reid - a Contractor
(1913)
The Wall of Money
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
(1913)
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
(1913)
Women and War
as The Boy
(1913)
The Picket Guard
as Sentry
(1913)
A Rose of Old Mexico
as Paul Hapgood
(1913)
The Animal
as The Animal
(1913)
The Ways of Fate
as Jim Conway
(1913)
A Modern Snare
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
(1913)
(1913)
The Guerilla Menace
as Captain Bruce Douglas
(1913)
The Powder Flash of Death
as Captain Bruce Douglas
(1913)
The Lightning Bolt
as Reid
(1913)
Love and the Law
as Sheriff John Allen
(1913)
Their Masterpiece
as Jack Sanders
(1913)
On the Border
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
(1913)
The Harvest of Flame
as The Inspector
(1913)
Cross Purposes
as Wally
(1913)
Her Innocent Marriage
as Will Wayne
(1913)
An Even Exchange
as Joe
(1913)
The Eye of a God
as Frank Hammond
(1913)
(1912)
(1912)
Chumps
as George - the Denouement
(1912)
The Illumination
as Giuseppe's Father
(1912)
The Telephone Girl
as Jack Watson
(1912)
Indian Romeo and Juliet
as Oniatore / Romeo
(1912)
The Hidden Treasure
as Bill Binks
(1912)
The Seepore Rebellion
as Extra
(1912)
The Path of True Love
as The Country Boy
(1912)
Every Inch a Man
as Robert Chapman - the Son
(1912)
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Clerk
(1912)
Fortunes of a Composer
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
(1912)
Kaintuck
as The Artist
(1912)
His Only Son
as Bob Madden
(1912)
Hunted Down
as John Dayton
(1912)
The Gamblers
as Arthur Ingraham
(1912)
Jean Intervenes
as Billy Hallock
(1912)
A Daughter of the Redskins
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
(1912)
(1912)
Early Days in the West
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
(1912)
Making Good
as Billy Burns
(1912)
At Cripple Creek
as Joe Mayfield
(1912)
Playmates
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
(1912)
The Victoria Cross
as Lt. Cholmodeley
(1912)
(1912)
The Tribal Law
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
(1912)
(1912)
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Basil Underwood
(1912)
The Indian Raiders
as Tom
(1912)
The Secret Service Man
as The Secret Service Man
(1912)
Before the White Man Came
as Wathuma - the Leopard
(1912)
The Seventh Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers
(1912)
(1912)
An Indian Outcast
as Wally, a Cowboy
(1912)
A Man's Duty
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
(1912)
Virginius
as Icilius
(1911)
War
as Midas
(1911)
The Mother of the Ranch
as The Mother's Friend Back East
(1911)
(1911)
The Reporter
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
(1910)
The Phoenix
as Young Reporter
Crew
(1917)
The Man Who Saved the Day
Director
(1916)
The Wrong Heart
Director, Scenario Writer
(1914)
The Heart of the Hills
Director, Writer
(1914)
The Intruder
Director
(1914)
The Countess Betty's Mine
Director
(1914)
The Wheel of Life
Director
(1914)
Fires of Conscience
Director
(1914)
The Greater Devotion
Director
(1914)
A Flash in the Dark
Director
(1914)
Breed o' the Mountains
Director
(1914)
Regeneration
Director
(1914)
The Voice of the Viola
Director
(1914)
The Way of a Woman
Director
(1914)
The Mountaineer
Director, Writer
(1914)
Cupid Incognito
Director, Writer
(1914)
A Gypsy Romance
Director
(1914)
The Test
Director
(1914)
The Skeleton
Director
(1914)
Love's Western Flight
Director
(1914)
A Wife on a Wager
Director
(1914)
'Cross the Mexican Line
Director
(1914)
The Fruit of Evil
Director, Writer
(1914)
The Den of Thieves
Director
(1914)
Down by the Sounding Sea
Scenario Writer
(1914)
Women and Roses
Director, Writer
(1914)
The Quack
Director
(1914)
The Siren
Director
(1914)
The Man Within
Director
(1914)
Passing of the Beast
Director
(1913)
A Rose of Old Mexico
Director
(1913)
The Ways of Fate
Director
(1913)
When Jim Returned
Director, Writer
(1913)
The Tattooed Arm
Director, Writer
(1913)
The Brothers
Director
(1913)
Youth and Jealousy
Director
(1913)
The Kiss
Director
(1913)
Her Innocent Marriage
Director
(1913)
A Modern Snare
Director
(1913)
On the Border
Director
(1913)
The Heart of a Cracksman
Director, Writer
(1913)
(1913)
The Fires of Fate
Director, Scenario Writer
(1913)
Cross Purposes
Director
(1913)
Retribution
Director
(1913)
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Writer
(1913)
The Lightning Bolt
Director, Writer
(1913)
A Hopi Legend
Director, Writer
(1913)
When Luck Changes
Director
(1913)
Via Cabaret
Director
(1913)
Hearts and Horses
Director
(1913)
Women and War
Writer
(1913)
Pride of Lonesome
Director
(1913)
A Foreign Spy
Director
(1913)
Mental Suicide
Writer
(1913)
The Harvest of Flame
Director, Writer
(1913)
The Spark of Manhood
Director
(1913)
The Gratitude of Wanda
Director
(1913)
Love and the Law
Director, Scenario Writer
(1913)
The Spirit of the Flag
Writer
(1913)
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Director
(1912)
Chumps
Scenario Writer
(1912)
(1912)
The Tribal Law
Director, Writer
(1912)
The Hidden Treasure
Director