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)
Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
(1922)
Rent Free
as Buell Arnister Jr
(1922)
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
(1922)
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1922)
Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
(1922)
The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
(1922)
The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
(1922)
Thirty Days
as John Floyd
(1922)
Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
(1921)
The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
(1921)
Forever
as Peter Ibbetson
(1921)
The Charm School
as Austin Bevans
(1921)
The Hell Diggers
as Teddy Darman
(1921)
Too Much Speed
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
(1921)
Don't Tell Everything
as Cullen Dale
(1921)
The Love Special
as Jim Glover
(1920)
The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
(1920)
Double Speed
as 'Speed' Carr
(1920)
Sick Abed
as Reginald Jay
(1920)
Always Audacious
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
(1920)
Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
(1920)
What's Your Hurry?
as Dusty Rhoades
(1919)
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
(1919)
Alias Mike Moran
as Larry Young
(1919)
The Lottery Man
as Jack Wright
(1919)
You're Fired
as Billy Deering
(1919)
The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
(1919)
The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
(1919)
The Love Burglar
as David Strong
(1919)
The Dub
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
(1918)
The Thing We Love
as Rodney Sheridan
(1918)
The House of Silence
as Marcel Levington
(1918)
Rimrock Jones
as Rimrock Jones
(1918)
The Source
as Van Twiller Yard
(1918)
Less Than Kin
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
(1918)
The Firefly of France
as Devereux Bayne
(1918)
Too Many Millions
as Walsingham Van Doren
(1918)
His Extra Bit
as The Husband
(1918)
Believe Me, Xantippe
as George MacFarland
(1918)
The Man from Funeral Range
as Harry Webb
(1917)
The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
(1917)
The World Apart
as Bob Fulton
(1917)
Nan of Music Mountain
as Henry de Spain
(1917)
The Hostage
as Lieutenant Kemper
(1917)
Big Timber
as Jack Fife
(1917)
The Squaw Man's Son
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
(1917)
The Golden Fetter
as James Roger Ralston
(1917)
The Devil Stone
as Guy Sterling
(1917)
The Prison Without Walls
as Huntington Babbs
(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)
The Love Mask
as Dan Derring
(1916)
Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
(1916)
The Selfish Woman
as Tom Morley
(1916)
To Have and to Hold
as Captain Ralph Percy
(1916)
The Yellow Pawn
as James Weldon
(1916)
Maria Rosa
as Andreas
(1916)
The House with the Golden Windows
as Tom Wells
(1916)
(1916)
The Wall of Flame
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
(1915)
The Lost House
as Ford
(1915)
Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
(1915)
Carmen
as Don Jose
(1915)
Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
(1915)
The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
(1915)
The Chorus Lady
as Danny Mallory
(1915)
The Three Brothers
as Jean Gaudet / Will
(1915)
A Yankee from the West
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
(1915)
The Craven
as Bud Walton
(1915)
Station Content
as Jim Manning
(1914)
The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
(1914)
Baby's Ride
as Father
(1914)
The Odalisque
as Curtiss
(1914)
Over the Ledge
as Bob
(1914)
The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector
(1914)
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Samuel Roebuck
(1914)
Regeneration
as The Artist
(1914)
At Dawn
as The Lieutenant
(1914)
A Flash in the Dark
as A Miner
(1914)
The Niggard
as Elmer Kent
(1914)
Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
(1914)
The Exposure
as The Reporter
(1914)
Her Awakening
as Bob Turner
(1914)
Another Chance
as Detective Flynn
(1914)
The Intruder
as The Woodsman
(1914)
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Wally
(1914)
The High Grader
as Dick Raleigh
(1914)
Love's Western Flight
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
(1914)
Women and Roses
as Wallace
(1914)
The Way of a Woman
as Pierre
(1914)
The Little Country Mouse
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
(1914)
The Siren
as Dane Northrop
(1914)
Down the Hill to Creditville
as Marcus Down
(1914)
(1914)
The Heart of the Hills
as Dave - the Woodsman
(1914)
(1914)
The Skeleton
as Jack - the Young Husband
(1914)
Her Doggy
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
(1914)
The Den of Thieves
as Wallace
(1914)
The City Beautiful
as The Country Boy
(1914)
(1914)
The Voice of the Viola
as Wallace
(1914)
Breed o' the Mountains
as Joe Mayfield
(1914)
Cupid Incognito
as Jack Falkner
(1914)
Fires of Conscience
as Ray - the Prospector
(1914)
Passing of the Beast
as Jacques - the Woodsman
(1914)
A Wife on a Wager
as Wally Bristow
(1914)
Down by the Sounding Sea
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
(1914)
A Mother's Influence
as Wallace Burton - the Son
(1914)
The Greater Devotion
as 'Devotion'
(1914)
The Mountaineer
as Jim - the Mountaineer
(1914)
Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
(1914)
The Countess Betty's Mine
as Wallace
(1914)
Moonshine Molly
as Lawson Keene
(1914)
The Man Within
as The Outlaw
(1914)
For Her Father's Sins
as Frank Bell
(1914)
The Test
as The Poor Man
(1914)
The Daughter of a Crook
as Neal
(1914)
'Cross the Mexican Line
as Lt. Wallace
(1914)
A Gypsy Romance
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
(1914)
The Quack
as Wallace Rosslyn
(1913)
(1913)
Man's Duty
as Bill, the Selfish One
(1913)
The Brothers
as Robert Gregory
(1913)
Women and War
as The Boy
(1913)
Mental Suicide
as Reid - a Contractor
(1913)
(1913)
(1913)
In Love and War
as David - the Journalist
(1913)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
(1913)
Hearts and Horses
as Bill Walters
(1913)
The Tattooed Arm
as Ben Hart
(1913)
The Wall of Money
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
(1913)
The Kiss
as Ralph Walters
(1913)
The Guerilla Menace
as Captain Bruce Douglas
(1913)
A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Gentleman Crook
(1913)
The Gratitude of Wanda
as Wally
(1913)
The Heart of a Cracksman
as Gentleman Crook
(1913)
The Animal
as The Animal
(1913)
The Fires of Fate
as Wally - the Doctor
(1913)
The Powder Flash of Death
as Captain Bruce Douglas
(1913)
When Luck Changes
as Cal Jim
(1913)
A Rose of Old Mexico
as Paul Hapgood
(1913)
The Harvest of Flame
as The Inspector
(1913)
The Eye of a God
as Frank Hammond
(1913)
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
(1913)
Via Cabaret
as Harry Reeder
(1913)
A Modern Snare
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
(1913)
The Deerslayer
as Chingachgook
(1913)
Song Bird of the North
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
(1913)
The Picket Guard
as Sentry
(1913)
Love and the Law
as Sheriff John Allen
(1913)
Retribution
as Reid
(1913)
Youth and Jealousy
as Ben
(1913)
The Spirit of the Flag
as Dr. Reid
(1913)
An Even Exchange
as Joe
(1913)
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
as Policeman
(1913)
On the Border
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
(1913)
When Jim Returned
as Jim
(1913)
Their Masterpiece
as Jack Sanders
(1913)
Cross Purposes
as Wally
(1913)
The Spark of Manhood
as Humphrey Van Weyden
(1913)
Pride of Lonesome
as Edward Daton
(1913)
The Ways of Fate
as Jim Conway
(1913)
(1913)
The Lightning Bolt
as Reid
(1913)
The Cracksman's Reformation
as Gentleman Crook
(1913)
Her Innocent Marriage
as Will Wayne
(1913)
(1912)
A Man's Duty
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
(1912)
The Illumination
as Giuseppe's Father
(1912)
The Gamblers
as Arthur Ingraham
(1912)
Indian Romeo and Juliet
as Oniatore / Romeo
(1912)
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Clerk
(1912)
The Hidden Treasure
as Bill Binks
(1912)
Hunted Down
as John Dayton
(1912)
Fortunes of a Composer
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
(1912)
Virginius
as Icilius
(1912)
Jean Intervenes
as Billy Hallock
(1912)
Chumps
as George - the Denouement
(1912)
(1912)
Making Good
as Billy Burns
(1912)
(1912)
The Path of True Love
as The Country Boy
(1912)
(1912)
At Cripple Creek
as Joe Mayfield
(1912)
His Only Son
as Bob Madden
(1912)
Kaintuck
as The Artist
(1912)
The Telephone Girl
as Jack Watson
(1912)
An Indian Outcast
as Wally, a Cowboy
(1912)
The Secret Service Man
as The Secret Service Man
(1912)
The Indian Raiders
as Tom
(1912)
A Daughter of the Redskins
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
(1912)
(1912)
Playmates
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
(1912)
Every Inch a Man
as Robert Chapman - the Son
(1912)
The Tribal Law
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
(1912)
The Seepore Rebellion
as Extra
(1912)
Before the White Man Came
as Wathuma - the Leopard
(1912)
The Seventh Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers
(1912)
(1912)
Early Days in the West
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
(1912)
The Victoria Cross
as Lt. Cholmodeley
(1912)
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Basil Underwood
(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