Wallace Reid
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1891-04-14
Deathday 1923-01-18 (31 years old)
Place of Birth Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As William Wallace Halleck Reid
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.
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as John Floyd
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as Clarence Smith
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
as Captain Billy Wade
as Self
as Brooke Travers
as Jimmy Dent
as William Burroughs
as Buell Arnister Jr
as Cullen Dale
as Peter Ibbetson
as Anatol Spencer
as Teddy Darman
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
as Jim Glover
as Austin Bevans
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
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as Reginald Jay
as Sylvester Tibble
as 'Toodles' Walden
as 'Speed' Carr
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
as Jack Wright
as Bryce Cardigan
as David Strong
as Billy Deering
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
as Larry Young
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
as Walsingham Van Doren
as Harry Webb
as The Husband
as Van Twiller Yard
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
as Devereux Bayne
as George MacFarland
as Marcel Levington
as Rodney Sheridan
as Rimrock Jones
as Guy Sterling
as Henry de Spain
as Alvarado
as Lieutenant Kemper
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
as Jack Fife
as Bob Fulton
as Huntington Babbs
as John King
as James Roger Ralston
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
as James Weldon
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
as Tom Wells
as Tom Morley
as Andreas
as Dan Derring
as Captain Ralph Percy
as Roger Manning
as Prince Karl Heinrich
as Don Jose
as Danny Mallory
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
as Jim Manning
as Walter Fenn
as Ford
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
as Bud Walton
as Jean Gaudet / Will
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as Bob
as Detective Flynn
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
as Curtiss
as Elmer Kent
as Wallace Burton - the Son
as Frank Bell
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
as Bob Turner
as Marcus Down
as Dick Raleigh
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
as Samuel Roebuck
as The Doctor (uncredited)
as Lawson Keene
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
as The Country Boy
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as Wallace
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as Wally - the Ranch Owner
as Jacques - the Woodsman
as The Outlaw
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as Wallace Rosslyn
as Wallace
as Neal
as Jack - the Young Husband
as The Poor Man
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
as Jack Falkner
as Pierre
as Jim - the Mountaineer
as Dave - the Woodsman
as Wallace
as The Artist
as Joe Mayfield
as A Miner
as 'Devotion'
as Ray - the Prospector
as The Prospector
as Wallace
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as Wally
as Reid
as Gentleman Crook
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as Wally - the Doctor
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as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
as Wally
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
as The Inspector
as The Animal
as Joe
as Bill, the Selfish One
as Reid - a Contractor
as Sentry
as Captain Bruce Douglas
as Edward Daton
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
as Policeman
as Captain Bruce Douglas
as The Boy
as David - the Journalist
as Bill Walters
as Harry Reeder
as Dr. Reid
as Cal Jim
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
as Will Wayne
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
as Ralph Walters
as Ben
as Chingachgook
as Robert Gregory
as Ben Hart
as Jim
as Jim Conway
as Frank Hammond
as Paul Hapgood
as Jack Sanders
as Sheriff John Allen
as Dorian Gray
as Bill Binks
as Wally, a Cowboy
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
as John Dayton
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
as Robert Chapman - the Son
as Bob Madden
as Tom
as The Secret Service Man
as Billy Burns
as Joe Mayfield
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
as Wathuma - the Leopard
as Arthur Ingraham
as Icilius
as The Artist
as Basil Underwood
as Clerk
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
as Lt. Cholmodeley
as Giuseppe's Father
as One of the Beecham Brothers
as Jack Watson
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
as Oniatore / Romeo
as Billy Hallock
as George - the Denouement
as The Country Boy
as Extra
as Midas
as The Mother's Friend Back East
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
as Young Reporter
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