Wallace Reid
Known for Acting · 216 credits
- Born
- 1891-04-14
- Died
- 1923-01-18
- Place of birth
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- William Wallace Halleck 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
The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
Carmen
1915
as Don Jose
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Playmates
1912
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
The Brothers
1913
as Robert Gregory
The Odalisque
1914
as Curtiss
Movies (216)
The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
Carmen
1915
as Don Jose
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Playmates
1912
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
The Brothers
1913
as Robert Gregory
The Odalisque
1914
as Curtiss
The Craven
1915
as Bud Walton
The Source
1918
as Van Twiller Yard
Big Timber
1917
as Jack Fife
Rimrock Jones
1918
as Rimrock Jones
Clarence
1922
as Clarence Smith
The Hostage
1917
as Lieutenant Kemper
The Gamblers
1912
as Arthur Ingraham
Near To Earth
1913
The Selfish Woman
1916
as Tom Morley
Nice People
1922
as Captain Billy Wade
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
The World's Champion
1922
as William Burroughs
Double Speed
1920
as 'Speed' Carr
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
The Valley of the Giants
1919
as Bryce Cardigan
Over the Ledge
1914
as Bob
The Woman God Forgot
1917
as Alvarado
The Lottery Man
1919
as Jack Wright
The Dancin' Fool
1920
as Sylvester Tibble
The Roaring Road
1919
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
The Avenging Conscience
1914
as The Doctor (uncredited)
Rent Free
1922
as Buell Arnister Jr
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
as Anatol Spencer
Believe Me, Xantippe
1918
as George MacFarland
Too Many Millions
1918
as Walsingham Van Doren
Excuse My Dust
1920
as 'Toodles' Walden
Joan the Woman
1916
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Night Life in Hollywood
1922
as Self
The World Apart
1917
as Bob Fulton
Old Heidelberg
1915
as Prince Karl Heinrich
The Quack
1914
as Wallace Rosslyn
Don't Tell Everything
1921
as Cullen Dale
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
1913
as Policeman
Women and Roses
1914
as Wallace
Nan of Music Mountain
1917
as Henry de Spain
The Golden Chance
1915
as Roger Manning
The Siren
1914
as Dane Northrop
The Chorus Lady
1915
as Danny Mallory
Cupid Incognito
1914
as Jack Falkner
The Dictator
1922
as Brooke Travers
To Have and to Hold
1916
as Captain Ralph Percy
Maria Rosa
1916
as Andreas
The Little Country Mouse
1914
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914
as Marcus Down
The Firefly of France
1918
as Devereux Bayne
Less Than Kin
1918
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
Thirty Days
1922
as John Floyd
The Wheel of Life
1914
as The Prospector
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
Sick Abed
1920
as Reginald Jay
The Test
1914
as The Poor Man
The Yellow Pawn
1916
as James Weldon
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Samuel Roebuck
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
as Dorian Gray
The Mountaineer
1914
as Jim - the Mountaineer
The Kiss
1913
as Ralph Walters
His Extra Bit
1918
as The Husband
Always Audacious
1920
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
as Wallace
Love and the Law
1913
as Sheriff John Allen
Moonshine Molly
1914
as Lawson Keene
Enoch Arden
1915
as Walter Fenn
The Ghost Breaker
1922
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The Exposure
1914
as The Reporter
The Love Burglar
1919
as David Strong
The Indian Raiders
1912
as Tom
The Victoria Cross
1912
as Lt. Cholmodeley
Across the Continent
1922
as Jimmy Dent
The Voice of the Viola
1914
as Wallace
The House with the Golden Windows
1916
as Tom Wells
The Prison Without Walls
1917
as Huntington Babbs
The Hell Diggers
1921
as Teddy Darman
The Tattooed Arm
1913
as Ben Hart
Their Masterpiece
1913
as Jack Sanders
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
For Her Father's Sins
1914
as Frank Bell
Forever
1921
as Peter Ibbetson
Regeneration
1914
as The Artist
A Daughter of the Redskins
1912
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
An Indian Outcast
1912
as Wally, a Cowboy
The Golden Fetter
1917
as James Roger Ralston
An Even Exchange
1913
as Joe
War
1911
as Midas
Love's Western Flight
1914
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
You're Fired
1919
as Billy Deering
Alias Mike Moran
1919
as Larry Young
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
as Gentleman Crook
The Fires of Fate
1913
as Wally - the Doctor
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
When Jim Returned
1913
as Jim
The Den of Thieves
1914
as Wallace
The Spirit of the Flag
1913
as Dr. Reid
The Illumination
1912
as Giuseppe's Father
The Telephone Girl
1912
as Jack Watson
The Spider and Her Web
1914
A Flash in the Dark
1914
as A Miner
A Wife on a Wager
1914
as Wally Bristow
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
1912
The Heart of the Hills
1914
as Dave - the Woodsman
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
as Joe Mayfield
Youth and Jealousy
1913
as Ben
Via Cabaret
1913
as Harry Reeder
The Lost House
1915
as Ford
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
as Gentleman Crook
Pride of Lonesome
1913
as Edward Daton
The Greater Devotion
1914
as 'Devotion'
Her Awakening
1914
as Bob Turner
The Cowboy Guardians
1912
The House of Silence
1918
as Marcel Levington
The Love Mask
1916
as Dan Derring
His Only Son
1912
as Bob Madden
The Way of a Woman
1914
as Pierre
The Leading Lady
1911
About 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… With 216 credits spanning from 1910 to 1961, Wallace Reid has appeared in 216 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Wallace Reid Movies
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) — as Jeff, the Blacksmith
- Carmen (1915) — as Don Jose
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
- Playmates (1912) — as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
- The Brothers (1913) — as Robert Gregory
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