Wallace Reid

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

135

Movies

217

Born: April 14, 1891 – January 18, 1923
From: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

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.

Works

217 films

The Birth of a Nation

19155.9

The Lightning Bolt

1913

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

The Victoria Cross

19125.0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Hunted Down

19129.0

Their Masterpiece

19137.0

The Kiss

1913

The Test

19145.0

The Heart of the Hills

1914

Rimrock Jones

1918

Playmates

19126.5

Thirty Days

19228.0

The World Apart

1917

The Ghost Breaker

192210.0

The Skeleton

1914

The Animal

1913

The House That Shadows Built

19318.5

The Avenging Conscience

19145.9

Brothers

1912

Joan the Woman

19165.6

The House of Silence

1918

The Movie Album

19327.5

Carmen

19156.1

The Mountaineer

1914

The Gamblers

1912

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

Night Life in Hollywood

19227.0

A Flash in the Dark

1914

The Affairs of Anatol

19215.9

The Hieroglyphic

1912

Regeneration

1914

The Intruder

1914

War

19119.5

The Brothers

1913

Don't Tell Everything

19218.0

Diamond Cut Diamond

19126.0

Alias Mike Moran

1919

Cross Purposes

1913

Chumps

1912

Her Doggy

1914

Believe Me, Xantippe

1918

Fortunes of a Composer

19124.0

The Lottery Man

191910.0

The Gratitude of Wanda

1913

The Hell Diggers

19216.0

A Daughter of the Redskins

19128.0

Over the Ledge

1914

The Quack

1914

Love and the Law

1913

The Woman God Forgot

19175.7

His Only Son

1912

The Greater Devotion

1914

The Picket Guard

1913

Women and War

1913

Too Many Millions

1918

The Spider and Her Web

1914

The Deerslayer

19136.2

Old Heidelberg

19155.0

Nan of Music Mountain

1917

Retribution

1913

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

1914

The Harvest of Flame

1913

A Trip to Paramountown

19227.8

Making Good

1912

A Hopi Legend

1913

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

19196.3

The Man Who Saved the Day

1917

The Charm School

19217.0

The Lost House

1915

Man's Duty

1913

The Voice of the Viola

1914

When Jim Returned

19135.0

Passing of the Beast

1914

The Cracksman's Reformation

1913

The Golden Chance

19156.6

Whoso Diggeth a Pit

1914

The Wheel of Life

1914

The World's Champion

19228.0

Indian Romeo and Juliet

1912

The Fruit of Evil

1914

The Guerilla Menace

191310.0

The Dictator

19228.0

A Modern Snare

1913

The Little Country Mouse

19145.0

The Tribal Law

1912

Love's Western Flight

1914

Fires of Conscience

1914

The Chorus Lady

1915

The Seepore Rebellion

19128.0

The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel

1921

The Devil Stone

1917

The Dub

19199.0

The Spark of Manhood

1913

The Leading Lady

1911

For Her Father's Sins

1914

The Cowboy Guardians

19127.0

Her Innocent Marriage

1913

On the Border

1913

The Valley of the Giants

19196.0

Near To Earth

1913

A Wife on a Wager

1914

'Cross the Mexican Line

1914

Breed o' the Mountains

1914

Clarence

19229.0

The Love Special

19218.0

Sick Abed

19207.0

You're Fired

19199.0

His Mother's Son

19138.0

Nice People

19228.0

The Countess Betty's Mine

1914

Women and Roses

1914

A Cracksman Santa Claus

1913

The Joke on Yellentown

19147.0

The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine

1913

The Tattooed Arm

1913

The Firefly of France

1918

The Hidden Treasure

191210.0

Double Speed

19208.0

Pirate Gold

1913

The Fires of Fate

1913

The Wall of Flame

19167.0

When Luck Changes

1913

The Three Brothers

1915

Early Days in the West

1912

Excuse My Dust

19205.9

Across the Continent

19228.0

Always Audacious

19209.0

The Yellow Pawn

1916

At Dawn

1914

The Love Burglar

19198.0

The Mother of the Ranch

1911

A Gypsy Romance

1914

The Wrong Heart

19167.0

Forever

19218.0

The Squaw Man's Son

1917

A Mother's Influence

1914

The Eye of a God

19137.0

An Even Exchange

1913

An Indian Outcast

19127.0

The Golden Fetter

1917

Too Much Speed

19218.0

Maria Rosa

1916

Less Than Kin

1918

The Phoenix

1910

Baby's Ride

1914

Via Cabaret

1913

The Selfish Woman

1916

The Telephone Girl

1912

At Scrogginses' Corner

1912

Youth and Jealousy

1913

Enoch Arden

19156.3

The Daughter of a Crook

19147.0

The Hostage

1917

What's Your Hurry?

19209.0

The Indian Raiders

1912

Sierra Jim's Reformation

1914

The Roaring Road

19196.1

The Tell-Tale Arm

19178.0

Arms and the Gringo

1914

Before the White Man Came

1912

A Foreign Spy

1913

The Seventh Son

1912

The Love Mask

1916

To Have and to Hold

1916

Down the Hill to Creditville

1914

Big Timber

1917

A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli

19128.0

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1913

The Illumination

1912

Rent Free

19229.0

The Thing We Love

1918

The Siren

1914

The Dancin' Fool

19208.0

The Source

1918

Pride of Lonesome

1913

The City Beautiful

1914

The Craven

1915

The Niggard

1914

The Exposure

1914

The Man Within

1914

Song Bird of the North

1913

The Man from Funeral Range

1918

The Prison Without Walls

1917

The Spirit of the Flag

19135.0

Every Inch a Man

1912

In Love and War

1913

Her Awakening

1914

His Extra Bit

19188.0

A Yankee from the West

1915

The Wall of Money

1913

The Heart of a Cracksman

1913

Cupid Incognito

1914

Hearts and Horses

1913

Moonshine Molly

1914

Jean Intervenes

1912

The House with the Golden Windows

1916

The Secret Service Man

1912

Kaintuck

1912

The Odalisque

1914

A Man's Duty

1912

At Cripple Creek

1912

The Ways of Fate

1913

Virginius

19129.0

The Reporter

1911

The High Grader

19148.0

The Den of Thieves

1914

Station Content

1915

Mental Suicide

1913

The Path of True Love

19127.0

Calamity Anne Takes a Trip

19138.0

A Rose of Old Mexico

1913

The Powder Flash of Death

1913

The Way of a Woman

1914

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

1912

Down by the Sounding Sea

1914

Another Chance

1914