9.5
9.5
War
1911
as Midas
Wallace Reid
Acting
Born:April 14, 1891
Died:January 18, 1923(aged 31)
Birthplace:Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (210 movies)
6.6
6.6
The Golden Chance
1915
as Roger Manning
6.3
6.3
Enoch Arden
1915
as Walter Fenn
6.2
6.2
The Deerslayer
1913
as Chingachgook
6.2
6.2
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
6.1
6.1
Carmen
1915
as Don Jose
6.1
6.1
The Avenging Conscience
1914
as The Doctor (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Diamond Cut Diamond
1912
as Clerk
6.0
6.0
The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
5.8
5.8
The Woman God Forgot
1917
as Alvarado
5.8
5.8
The Roaring Road
1919
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
5.7
5.7
Excuse My Dust
1920
as 'Toodles' Walden
5.6
5.6
Joan the Woman
1916
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
5.6
5.6
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
as Anatol Spencer
5.5
5.5
The Valley of the Giants
1919
as Bryce Cardigan
5.0
5.0
When Jim Returned
1913
Writer
5.0
5.0
The Test
1914
Director
5.0
5.0
The Little Country Mouse
1914
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
5.0
5.0
The Victoria Cross
1912
as Lt. Cholmodeley
5.0
5.0
Old Heidelberg
1915
as Prince Karl Heinrich
5.0
5.0
The Spirit of the Flag
1913
Writer
5.0
5.0
The Hell Diggers
1921
as Teddy Darman
4.0
4.0
Fortunes of a Composer
1912
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
Playmates
1912
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Nan of Music Mountain
1917
as Henry de Spain
Across the Continent
1922
as Jimmy Dent
Rent Free
1922
as Buell Arnister Jr
To Have and to Hold
1916
as Captain Ralph Percy
The Love Burglar
1919
as David Strong
The Phoenix
1910
as Young Reporter
The Leading Lady
1911
The Reporter
1911
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
1912
The Path of True Love
1912
as The Country Boy
Chumps
1912
as George - the Denouement
Jean Intervenes
1912
as Billy Hallock
Indian Romeo and Juliet
1912
as Oniatore / Romeo
The Telephone Girl
1912
as Jack Watson
The Seventh Son
1912
as One of the Beecham Brothers
The Illumination
1912
as Giuseppe's Father
At Scrogginses' Corner
1912
Brothers
1912
The Hieroglyphic
1912
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912
as Basil Underwood
His Mother's Son
1913
Kaintuck
1912
as The Artist
Virginius
1912
as Icilius
The Gamblers
1912
as Arthur Ingraham
Before the White Man Came
1912
Writer
A Man's Duty
1912
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
At Cripple Creek
1912
as Joe Mayfield
Making Good
1912
as Billy Burns
The Secret Service Man
1912
as The Secret Service Man
The Indian Raiders
1912
as Tom
His Only Son
1912
as Bob Madden
Early Days in the West
1912
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
Hunted Down
1912
as John Dayton
The Tribal Law
1912
Writer
A Daughter of the Redskins
1912
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
The Cowboy Guardians
1912
An Indian Outcast
1912
as Wally, a Cowboy
The Hidden Treasure
1912
Director
The Seepore Rebellion
1912
as Extra
Love and the Law
1913
Director
Their Masterpiece
1913
as Jack Sanders
Pirate Gold
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
Director
The Eye of a God
1913
as Frank Hammond
The Ways of Fate
1913
Director
The Tattooed Arm
1913
Writer
The Brothers
1913
Director
Youth and Jealousy
1913
Director
The Kiss
1913
Director
The Heart of the Hills
1914
Director
The House of Silence
1918
as Marcel Levington
The Dub
1919
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
Too Many Millions
1918
as Walsingham Van Doren
The Thing We Love
1918
as Rodney Sheridan
Thirty Days
1922
as John Floyd
The Man from Funeral Range
1918
as Harry Webb
Her Innocent Marriage
1913
Director
A Modern Snare
1913
Director
On the Border
1913
Director
When Luck Changes
1913
Director
Via Cabaret
1913
Director
Hearts and Horses
1913
Director
In Love and War
1913
as David - the Journalist
Women and War
1913
Writer
The Guerilla Menace
1913
as Captain Bruce Douglas
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
1913
as Policeman
Song Bird of the North
1913
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
Pride of Lonesome
1913
Director
The Powder Flash of Death
1913
as Captain Bruce Douglas
A Foreign Spy
1913
Director
The Picket Guard
1913
as Sentry
Mental Suicide
1913
Writer
Near To Earth
1913
Man's Duty
1913
as Bill, the Selfish One
An Even Exchange
1913
as Joe
The Animal
1913
as The Animal
The Harvest of Flame
1913
Writer
The Spark of Manhood
1913
Director
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
Director
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
Director
The Wall of Money
1913
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
Writer
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
Writer
The Fires of Fate
1913
Director
Cross Purposes
1913
Director
Retribution
1913
Director
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
Writer
The Lightning Bolt
1913
Writer
A Hopi Legend
1913
Writer
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
1914
as Wally
The Intruder
1914
Director
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
Director
The Wheel of Life
1914
Director
Fires of Conscience
1914
Director
The Greater Devotion
1914
Director
A Flash in the Dark
1914
Director
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
Director
Regeneration
1914
Director
The Voice of the Viola
1914
Director
The Way of a Woman
1914
Director
The Mountaineer
1914
Writer
The Spider and Her Web
1914
Cupid Incognito
1914
Director
A Gypsy Romance
1914
Director
The Skeleton
1914
Director
The Fruit of Evil
1914
Writer
The Daughter of a Crook
1914
as Neal
Women and Roses
1914
Writer
The Quack
1914
Director
The Siren
1914
Director
The Man Within
1914
Director
Passing of the Beast
1914
Director
Love's Western Flight
1914
Director
A Wife on a Wager
1914
Director
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
Director
The Den of Thieves
1914
Director
The City Beautiful
1914
as The Country Boy
Down by the Sounding Sea
1914
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
Moonshine Molly
1914
as Lawson Keene
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Samuel Roebuck
Sierra Jim's Reformation
1914
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The High Grader
1914
as Dick Raleigh
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914
as Marcus Down
Her Doggy
1914
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Awakening
1914
as Bob Turner
For Her Father's Sins
1914
as Frank Bell
A Mother's Influence
1914
as Wallace Burton - the Son
The Niggard
1914
as Elmer Kent
The Odalisque
1914
as Curtiss
Another Chance
1914
as Detective Flynn
Over the Ledge
1914
as Bob
At Dawn
1914
as The Lieutenant
The Joke on Yellentown
1914
The Exposure
1914
as The Reporter
The Love Mask
1916
as Dan Derring
The Selfish Woman
1916
as Tom Morley
The House with the Golden Windows
1916
as Tom Wells
The Yellow Pawn
1916
as James Weldon
The Wall of Flame
1916
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Wrong Heart
1916
Director
The Craven
1915
as Bud Walton
Station Content
1915
as Jim Manning
A Yankee from the West
1915
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
The Chorus Lady
1915
as Danny Mallory
The Golden Fetter
1917
as James Roger Ralston
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
Director
The Tell-Tale Arm
1917
The Prison Without Walls
1917
as Huntington Babbs
The World Apart
1917
as Bob Fulton
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
The Hostage
1917
as Lieutenant Kemper
Rimrock Jones
1918
as Rimrock Jones
Believe Me, Xantippe
1918
as George MacFarland
The Firefly of France
1918
as Devereux Bayne
Less Than Kin
1918
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
The Source
1918
as Van Twiller Yard
His Extra Bit
1918
as The Husband
Alias Mike Moran
1919
as Larry Young
The Lottery Man
1919
as Jack Wright
The Charm School
1921
as Austin Bevans
Too Much Speed
1921
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
Clarence
1922
as Clarence Smith
Baby's Ride
1914
as Father
The Mother of the Ranch
1911
as The Mother's Friend Back East
What's Your Hurry?
1920
as Dusty Rhoades
Night Life in Hollywood
1922
as Self
Arms and the Gringo
1914
as Sullivan
The Dancin' Fool
1920
as Sylvester Tibble
Nice People
1922
as Captain Billy Wade
Big Timber
1917
as Jack Fife
Every Inch a Man
1912
as Robert Chapman - the Son
The Ghost Breaker
1922
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The Love Special
1921
as Jim Glover
The World's Champion
1922
as William Burroughs
Maria Rosa
1916
as Andreas
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
as Dorian Gray
Forever
1921
as Peter Ibbetson
The Three Brothers
1915
as Jean Gaudet / Will
Always Audacious
1920
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
The Lost House
1915
as Ford
Sick Abed
1920
as Reginald Jay
Double Speed
1920
as 'Speed' Carr
You're Fired
1919
as Billy Deering
The Dictator
1922
as Brooke Travers
The Devil Stone
1917
as Guy Sterling
Don't Tell Everything
1921
as Cullen Dale
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