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Wallace Reid

Actor / Film Director / Screenwriter | * 04/15/1891 († 31, 01/18/1923) | St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". He also had a brief career as a racing driver. ()

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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Western

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Movies with Wallace Reid as Actor(215)

as Self (archive footage)1961 The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)1942 Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as (archive footage)1931 The House That Shadows Built
as Jimmy Dent1922 Across the Continent
as Brooke Travers1922 The Dictator
as John Floyd1922 Thirty Days
as Captain Billy Wade1922 Nice People
as William Burroughs1922 The World's Champion
as Clarence Smith1922 Clarence
as himself1922 A Trip to Paramountown
as Buell Arnister Jr1922 Rent Free
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker1922 The Ghost Breaker
as Anatol Spencer1921 The Affairs of Anatol
as Teddy Darman1921 The Hell Diggers
as Jim Glover1921 The Love Special
as 'Dusty' Rhoades1921 Too Much Speed
as Cullen Dale1921 Don't Tell Everything
as Austin Bevans1921 The Charm School
as Peter Ibbetson1921 Forever
as Dusty Rhoades1920 What's Your Hurry?
as Sylvester Tibble1920 The Dancin' Fool
as 'Toodles' Walden1920 Excuse My Dust
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks1920 Always Audacious
as 'Speed' Carr1920 Double Speed
as Reginald Jay1920 Sick Abed
as Bryce Cardigan1919 The Valley of the Giants
as Jack Wright1919 The Lottery Man
as John Craig (The 'Dub')1919 The Dub
as Larry Young1919 Alias Mike Moran
as Billy Deering1919 You're Fired
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne1919 Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden1919 The Roaring Road
as David Strong1919 The Love Burglar
as Marcel Levington1918 The House of Silence
as Harry Webb1918 The Man from Funeral Range
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers1918 Less Than Kin
as Walsingham Van Doren1918 Too Many Millions
as Devereux Bayne1918 The Firefly of France
as Van Twiller Yard1918 The Source
as George MacFarland1918 Believe Me, Xantippe
as Rimrock Jones1918 Rimrock Jones
as The Husband1918 His Extra Bit
as Rodney Sheridan1918 The Thing We Love
as Alvarado1917 The Woman God Forgot
as Guy Sterling1917 The Devil Stone
as John King1917 The Man Who Saved the Day
as James Roger Ralston1917 The Golden Fetter
as Huntington Babbs1917 The Prison Without Walls
as Henry de Spain1917 Nan of Music Mountain
as Lieutenant Kemper1917 The Hostage
as Bob Fulton1917 The World Apart
as Jack Fife1917 Big Timber
as Lord Effington, aka Hal1917 The Squaw Man's Son
as Andreas1916 Maria Rosa
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 19171916 Joan the Woman
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Dan Derring1916 The Love Mask
as Tom Morley1916 The Selfish Woman
as James Weldon1916 The Yellow Pawn
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector1916 The Wall of Flame
as Captain Ralph Percy1916 To Have and to Hold
as Prince Karl Heinrich1915 Old Heidelberg
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud1915 A Yankee from the West
as Jim Manning1915 Station Content
as Ford1915 The Lost House
as Jeff, the Blacksmith1915 The Birth of a Nation
as Walter Fenn1915 Enoch Arden
as Roger Manning1915 The Golden Chance
as Bud Walton1915 The Craven
as Jean Gaudet / Will1915 The Three Brothers
as Danny Mallory1915 The Chorus Lady
as Don Jose1915 Carmen
as Lawson Keene1914 Moonshine Molly
as Jack Falkner1914 Cupid Incognito
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)1914 Her Doggy
as Pierre1914 The Way of a Woman
as Curtiss1914 The Odalisque
as The Country Boy1914 The City Beautiful
as Wally Bristow1914 A Wife on a Wager
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea1914 Down by the Sounding Sea
as Detective Flynn1914 Another Chance
as Wallace Burton - the Son1914 A Mother's Influence
as Jack - the Young Husband1914 The Skeleton
as Dane Northrop1914 The Siren
as Joe Mayfield1914 Breed o' the Mountains
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider1914 Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Lt. Wallace1914 'Cross the Mexican Line
as Jacques - the Woodsman1914 Passing of the Beast
as Wally - the Ranch Owner1914 Love's Western Flight
as Bob Turner1914 Her Awakening
as The Lieutenant1914 At Dawn
as The Doctor (uncredited)1914 The Avenging Conscience
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst1914 The Little Country Mouse
as Wallace1914 The Den of Thieves
as Elmer Kent1914 The Niggard
as Frank Bell1914 For Her Father's Sins
as Jose - King of the Gypsies1914 A Gypsy Romance
as Jim - the Mountaineer1914 The Mountaineer
as Dave - the Woodsman1914 The Heart of the Hills
as The Woodsman1914 The Intruder
as 'Devotion'1914 The Greater Devotion
as Marcus Down1914 Down the Hill to Creditville
as Wally1914 Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Bob1914 Over the Ledge
as Wallace Rosslyn1914 The Quack
as The Prospector1914 The Wheel of Life
as Ray - the Prospector1914 Fires of Conscience
as The Reporter1914 The Exposure
as Sullivan1914 Arms and the Gringo
as Samuel Roebuck1914 The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as The Poor Man1914 The Test
as The Outlaw1914 The Man Within
as Dick Raleigh1914 The High Grader
as Wallace1914 Women and Roses
as The Artist1914 Regeneration
as Wallace1914 The Voice of the Viola
as A Miner1914 A Flash in the Dark
as Father1914 Baby's Ride
as David - the Journalist1913 In Love and War
as Ralph - the New Sheriff1913 A Modern Snare
as Sentry1913 The Picket Guard
as Jim Conway1913 The Ways of Fate
as Reid - Rosson's Brother1913 The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Frank Hammond1913 The Eye of a God
as Joe1913 An Even Exchange
as Wally - the Doctor1913 The Fires of Fate
as Gentleman Crook1913 The Heart of a Cracksman
as The Animal1913 The Animal
as Fowle - a Mission Worker1913 Song Bird of the North
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son1913 The Wall of Money
as Gentleman Crook1913 A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Robert Gregory1913 The Brothers
as Dorian Gray1913 The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Gentleman Crook1913 The Cracksman's Reformation
as Sheriff John Allen1913 Love and the Law
as Bill Walters1913 Hearts and Horses
as Bill, the Selfish One1913 Man's Duty
as Dr. Reid1913 The Spirit of the Flag
as Reid1913 The Lightning Bolt
as The Inspector1913 The Harvest of Flame
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy1913 On the Border
as Reid - a Contractor1913 Mental Suicide
as Ralph Walters1913 The Kiss
as Wally1913 Cross Purposes
as Captain Bruce Douglas1913 The Powder Flash of Death
as Jack Sanders1913 Their Masterpiece
as Ben Hart1913 The Tattooed Arm
as Chingachgook1913 The Deerslayer
as Captain Bruce Douglas1913 The Guerilla Menace
as Paul Hapgood1913 A Rose of Old Mexico
as Cal Jim1913 When Luck Changes
as Edward Daton1913 Pride of Lonesome
as Will Wayne1913 Her Innocent Marriage
as Reid1913 Retribution
as The Boy1913 Women and War
as Harry Reeder1913 Via Cabaret
as Bill Binks1912 The Hidden Treasure
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.1912 A Daughter of the Redskins
as Basil Underwood1912 Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Robert Chapman - the Son1912 Every Inch a Man
as John Dayton1912 Hunted Down
as Clerk1912 Diamond Cut Diamond
as Jack Watson1912 The Telephone Girl
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)1912 Fortunes of a Composer
as Bob Madden1912 His Only Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers1912 The Seventh Son
as Icilius1912 Virginius
as The Secret Service Man1912 The Secret Service Man
as Billy Hallock1912 Jean Intervenes
as Wathuma - the Leopard1912 Before the White Man Came
as George - the Denouement1912 Chumps
as Wally, a Cowboy1912 An Indian Outcast
as Billy Burns1912 Making Good
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)1912 Playmates
as The Artist1912 Kaintuck
as Arthur Ingraham1912 The Gamblers
as Lt. Cholmodeley1912 The Victoria Cross
as Dan, a Young Pioneer1912 Early Days in the West
as Joe Mayfield1912 At Cripple Creek
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave1912 The Tribal Law
as Giuseppe's Father1912 The Illumination
as Oniatore / Romeo1912 Indian Romeo and Juliet
as The Country Boy1912 The Path of True Love
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier1912 A Man's Duty
as The Mother's Friend Back East1911 The Mother of the Ranch
as Midas1911 War
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant1911 The Reporter
as Young Reporter1910 The Phoenix

Movies with Wallace Reid as Crew(78)

Directing/Director1917 The Man Who Saved the Day
Directing/Director1916 The Wrong Heart
Writing/Scenario Writer1916 The Wrong Heart
Directing/Director1914 Cupid Incognito
Writing/Writer1914 Cupid Incognito
Directing/Director1914 The Way of a Woman
Directing/Director1914 A Wife on a Wager
Writing/Scenario Writer1914 Down by the Sounding Sea
Directing/Director1914 The Skeleton
Directing/Director1914 The Siren
Directing/Director1914 Breed o' the Mountains
Directing/Director1914 'Cross the Mexican Line
Directing/Director1914 Passing of the Beast
Directing/Director1914 Love's Western Flight
Directing/Director1914 The Countess Betty's Mine
Directing/Director1914 The Den of Thieves
Directing/Director1914 A Gypsy Romance
Directing/Director1914 The Mountaineer
Writing/Writer1914 The Mountaineer
Directing/Director1914 The Heart of the Hills
Writing/Writer1914 The Heart of the Hills
Directing/Director1914 The Intruder
Directing/Director1914 The Greater Devotion
Directing/Director1914 The Quack
Directing/Director1914 The Wheel of Life
Directing/Director1914 Fires of Conscience
Directing/Director1914 The Test
Directing/Director1914 The Man Within
Directing/Director1914 Women and Roses
Writing/Writer1914 Women and Roses
Directing/Director1914 The Fruit of Evil
Writing/Writer1914 The Fruit of Evil
Directing/Director1914 Regeneration
Directing/Director1914 The Voice of the Viola
Directing/Director1914 A Flash in the Dark
Directing/Director1913 A Modern Snare
Directing/Director1913 The Ways of Fate
Directing/Director1913 A Hopi Legend
Writing/Writer1913 A Hopi Legend
Directing/Director1913 The Fires of Fate
Writing/Scenario Writer1913 The Fires of Fate
Directing/Director1913 When Jim Returned
Writing/Writer1913 When Jim Returned
Directing/Director1913 The Heart of a Cracksman
Writing/Writer1913 The Heart of a Cracksman
Writing/Writer1913 A Cracksman Santa Claus
Directing/Director1913 The Brothers
Writing/Writer1913 The Cracksman's Reformation
Directing/Director1913 Love and the Law
Writing/Scenario Writer1913 Love and the Law
Directing/Director1913 Hearts and Horses
Directing/Director1913 The Gratitude of Wanda
Writing/Writer1913 The Spirit of the Flag
Directing/Director1913 The Lightning Bolt
Writing/Writer1913 The Lightning Bolt
Directing/Director1913 The Harvest of Flame
Writing/Writer1913 The Harvest of Flame
Directing/Director1913 On the Border
Writing/Writer1913 Mental Suicide
Directing/Director1913 The Kiss
Directing/Director1913 Cross Purposes
Directing/Director1913 The Tattooed Arm
Writing/Writer1913 The Tattooed Arm
Directing/Director1913 A Rose of Old Mexico
Directing/Director1913 Youth and Jealousy
Directing/Director1913 A Foreign Spy
Directing/Director1913 When Luck Changes
Directing/Director1913 Pride of Lonesome
Directing/Director1913 Her Innocent Marriage
Directing/Director1913 Retribution
Writing/Writer1913 Women and War
Directing/Director1913 Via Cabaret
Directing/Director1913 The Spark of Manhood
Directing/Director1912 The Hidden Treasure
Writing/Writer1912 Before the White Man Came
Writing/Scenario Writer1912 Chumps
Directing/Director1912 The Tribal Law
Writing/Writer1912 The Tribal Law

Full Name: Wallace Reid
Born: Wednesday, 04/15 1891 (April) in St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
Died: Thursday, 01/18 1923 (January) in Los Angeles (aged: 31)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Dorothy Davenport
Father: Hal Reid
Wallace Reid frequently works together with these people:
Dorothy Davenport (37x, Actress)
Hal Reid (35x, Crew)
Ed Brady (23x, Actor)
D.W. Griffith (22x, Crew)
Cecil B. DeMille (20x, Crew)
Phil Dunham (20x, Actor)
Allan Dwan (20x, Crew)
Donald Crisp (19x, Actor)
Pauline Bush (17x, Actress)
James Cruze (17x, Crew)
Guy Oliver (16x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:160078, Added: 07/06/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024