Wallace Reid

Acting · 0.6 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

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

19167.1

The Heart of the Hills

1914

Their Masterpiece

19137.0

The Victoria Cross

19125.0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Hunted Down

19129.0

Brothers

1912

The Kiss

1913

Playmates

19126.5

Fortunes of a Composer

19124.0

Regeneration

1914

The Movie Album

19327.5

The Lightning Bolt

1913

The Intruder

1914

The Affairs of Anatol

19215.9

The Test

19145.0

Retribution

1913

The Gamblers

1912

The Lottery Man

191910.0

The World Apart

1917

Rimrock Jones

1918

War

19119.5

The Skeleton

1914

A Flash in the Dark

1914

The Animal

1913

Thirty Days

19228.0

Cross Purposes

1913

The Hieroglyphic

1912

The House of Silence

1918

His Only Son

1912

Making Good

1912

Joan the Woman

19165.6

Too Many Millions

1918

Carmen

19156.1

The House That Shadows Built

19318.5

Chumps

1912

Pirate Gold

1913

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

Diamond Cut Diamond

19126.0

Her Doggy

1914

The Ghost Breaker

192210.0

Love and the Law

1913

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

1914

Old Heidelberg

19155.0

Believe Me, Xantippe

1918

Nan of Music Mountain

1917

Alias Mike Moran

1919

The Lost House

1915

The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel

1921

The Mountaineer

1914

The Gratitude of Wanda

1913

The Spider and Her Web

1914

The Charm School

19217.0

The Woman God Forgot

19175.7

The Quack

1914

Indian Romeo and Juliet

1912

The Picket Guard

1913

Passing of the Beast

1914

The Avenging Conscience

19145.9

Night Life in Hollywood

19227.0

On the Border

1913

The Man Who Saved the Day

1917

The Deerslayer

19136.2

Her Innocent Marriage

1913

For Her Father's Sins

1914

The Harvest of Flame

1913

At Scrogginses' Corner

1912

Hearts and Horses

1913

The Brothers

1913

Less Than Kin

1918

The Illumination

1912

The Love Special

19218.0

The Three Brothers

1915

A Trip to Paramountown

19227.8

The Greater Devotion

1914

The Leading Lady

1911

The Valley of the Giants

19196.0

Women and Roses

1914

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

19196.3

Over the Ledge

1914

A Wife on a Wager

1914

The Guerilla Menace

191310.0

A Hopi Legend

1913

The World's Champion

19228.0

The Hell Diggers

19216.0

The Mother of the Ranch

1911

Don't Tell Everything

19218.0

Women and War

1913

The Golden Fetter

1917

The Golden Chance

19156.6

Breed o' the Mountains

1914

The Phoenix

1910

The Cowboy Guardians

19127.0

Man's Duty

1913

A Daughter of the Redskins

19128.0

The Fires of Fate

1913

Fires of Conscience

1914

The Little Country Mouse

19145.0

The Voice of the Viola

1914

Enoch Arden

19156.3

The Chorus Lady

1915

The Wheel of Life

1914

You're Fired

19199.0

His Mother's Son

19138.0

The Tribal Law

1912

The Joke on Yellentown

19147.0

The Devil Stone

1917

A Gypsy Romance

1914

Across the Continent

19228.0

Early Days in the West

1912

The Firefly of France

1918

The Dictator

19228.0

The Countess Betty's Mine

1914

Maria Rosa

1916

'Cross the Mexican Line

1914

Whoso Diggeth a Pit

1914

The Selfish Woman

1916

The Dub

19199.0

An Even Exchange

1913

The Spark of Manhood

1913

Nice People

19228.0

Near To Earth

1913

The Ways of Fate

1913

Forever

19218.0

The Wall of Flame

19167.0

The Fruit of Evil

1914

A Mother's Influence

1914

Always Audacious

19209.0

When Jim Returned

19135.0

Too Much Speed

19218.0

The Cracksman's Reformation

1913

The Daughter of a Crook

19147.0

Love's Western Flight

1914

The Eye of a God

19137.0

Double Speed

19208.0

A Cracksman Santa Claus

1913

Baby's Ride

1914

At Dawn

1914

Her Awakening

1914

Down the Hill to Creditville

1914

A Foreign Spy

1913

The Yellow Pawn

1916

Excuse My Dust

19205.9

Sick Abed

19207.0

The Source

1918

The Indian Raiders

1912

The Tell-Tale Arm

19178.0

Clarence

19229.0

Sierra Jim's Reformation

1914

Song Bird of the North

1913

The Exposure

1914

The Dancin' Fool

19208.0

The Craven

1915

Down by the Sounding Sea

1914

The Seventh Son

1912

The Seepore Rebellion

19128.0

A Yankee from the West

1915

A Modern Snare

1913

The Man Within

1914

The Love Burglar

19198.0

The Telephone Girl

1912

The Hostage

1917

An Indian Outcast

19127.0

The Wrong Heart

19167.0

The Squaw Man's Son

1917

Rent Free

19229.0

When Luck Changes

1913

Youth and Jealousy

1913

Before the White Man Came

1912

The Love Mask

1916

What's Your Hurry?

19209.0

The Roaring Road

19196.1

The Man from Funeral Range

1918

The City Beautiful

1914

Arms and the Gringo

1914

The Hidden Treasure

191210.0

A Man's Duty

1912

Calamity Anne Takes a Trip

19138.0

To Have and to Hold

1916

Station Content

1915

Big Timber

1917

The Niggard

1914

Pride of Lonesome

1913

The Siren

1914

Via Cabaret

1913

Moonshine Molly

1914

The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine

1913

The Tattooed Arm

1913

The Heart of a Cracksman

1913

The House with the Golden Windows

1916

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

19128.0

Jean Intervenes

1912

At Cripple Creek

1912

The High Grader

19148.0

The Odalisque

1914

Cupid Incognito

1914

The Secret Service Man

1912

In Love and War

1913

The Wall of Money

1913

The Prison Without Walls

1917

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1913

The Spirit of the Flag

19135.0

The Thing We Love

1918

Mental Suicide

1913

His Extra Bit

19188.0

Every Inch a Man

1912

The Powder Flash of Death

1913

The Way of a Woman

1914

Another Chance

1914

A Rose of Old Mexico

1913

The Den of Thieves

1914

Kaintuck

1912

The Path of True Love

19127.0

Virginius

19129.0

The Reporter

1911

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

1912