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