Wallace Reid
Age: N/A | From: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: William Wallace Halleck Reid
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Movie Involvements: 244
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Birth of a Nation
(1915) Jeff, the Blacksmith
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
(1916) Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Joan the Woman
(1916) Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Carmen
(1915) Don Jose
Enoch Arden
(1915) Walter Fenn
A Man's Duty
(1912) Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
The Heart of the Hills
(1914) Dave - the Woodsman
The Cracksman's Reformation
(1913) Gentleman CrookActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1961 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1942 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1931 | (archive footage) | |
| 1922 | John Floyd | |
| Self | ||
| Clarence Smith | ||
| Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker | ||
| Captain Billy Wade | ||
| Self | ||
| Brooke Travers | ||
| Jimmy Dent | ||
| William Burroughs | ||
| Buell Arnister Jr | ||
| 1921 | Cullen Dale | |
| Peter Ibbetson | ||
| Anatol Spencer | ||
| Teddy Darman | ||
| 'Dusty' Rhoades | ||
| Jim Glover | ||
| Austin Bevans | ||
| 1920 | Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks | |
| Dusty Rhoades | ||
| Reginald Jay | ||
| Sylvester Tibble | ||
| 'Toodles' Walden | ||
| 'Speed' Carr | ||
| 1919 | Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne | |
| Jack Wright | ||
| Bryce Cardigan | ||
| David Strong | ||
| Billy Deering | ||
| Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden | ||
| Larry Young | ||
| John Craig (The 'Dub') | ||
| 1918 | Walsingham Van Doren | |
| Harry Webb | ||
| The Husband | ||
| Van Twiller Yard | ||
| Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers | ||
| Devereux Bayne | ||
| George MacFarland | ||
| Marcel Levington | ||
| Rodney Sheridan | ||
| Rimrock Jones | ||
| 1917 | Guy Sterling | |
| Henry de Spain | ||
| Alvarado | ||
| Lieutenant Kemper | ||
| Lord Effington, aka Hal | ||
| Jack Fife | ||
| Bob Fulton | ||
| N/A | ||
| Huntington Babbs | ||
| John King | ||
| James Roger Ralston | ||
| 1916 | Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917 | |
| N/A | ||
| Wallace - the Fire Inspector | ||
| James Weldon | ||
| Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited) | ||
| Tom Wells | ||
| Tom Morley | ||
| Andreas | ||
| Dan Derring | ||
| Captain Ralph Percy | ||
| 1915 | Roger Manning | |
| Prince Karl Heinrich | ||
| Don Jose | ||
| Danny Mallory | ||
| Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud | ||
| Jim Manning | ||
| Walter Fenn | ||
| Ford | ||
| Jeff, the Blacksmith | ||
| Bud Walton | ||
| Jean Gaudet / Will | ||
| 1914 | Father | |
| The Reporter | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Lieutenant | ||
| Bob | ||
| Detective Flynn | ||
| Lieutenant Hawkhurst | ||
| Curtiss | ||
| Elmer Kent | ||
| Wallace Burton - the Son | ||
| Frank Bell | ||
| The Doctor (unconfirmed) | ||
| Bob Turner | ||
| Marcus Down | ||
| Dick Raleigh | ||
| Tim - the Pony Express Rider | ||
| Samuel Roebuck | ||
| Lawson Keene | ||
| The Doctor (uncredited) | ||
| John Ward - the Man from the Sea | ||
| The Country Boy | ||
| Sullivan | ||
| Wallace | ||
| Lt. Wallace | ||
| Wally Bristow | ||
| Wally - the Ranch Owner | ||
| Jacques - the Woodsman | ||
| The Outlaw | ||
| Dane Northrop | ||
| Wallace Rosslyn | ||
| Wallace | ||
| Neal | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jack - the Young Husband | ||
| The Poor Man | ||
| Jose - King of the Gypsies | ||
| Jack Falkner | ||
| N/A | ||
| Pierre | ||
| Jim - the Mountaineer | ||
| Dave - the Woodsman | ||
| Wallace | ||
| The Artist | ||
| Joe Mayfield | ||
| A Miner | ||
| 'Devotion' | ||
| Ray - the Prospector | ||
| The Prospector | ||
| Wallace | ||
| The Woodsman | ||
| Wally | ||
| 1913 | N/A | |
| Reid | ||
| Gentleman Crook | ||
| Reid | ||
| Wally | ||
| Wally - the Doctor | ||
| Gentleman Crook | ||
| Gentleman Crook | ||
| Wallace - McQuarrie's Son | ||
| Wally | ||
| Reid - Rosson's Brother | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Inspector | ||
| The Animal | ||
| Joe | ||
| Bill, the Selfish One | ||
| Reid - a Contractor | ||
| Sentry | ||
| N/A | ||
| Captain Bruce Douglas | ||
| Edward Daton | ||
| Fowle - a Mission Worker | ||
| Policeman | ||
| Captain Bruce Douglas | ||
| The Boy | ||
| David - the Journalist | ||
| Bill Walters | ||
| Dr. Reid | ||
| Harry Reeder | ||
| Cal Jim | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bill Reeves - the Cowboy | ||
| Will Wayne | ||
| Ralph - the New Sheriff | ||
| Ralph Walters | ||
| Ben | ||
| Chingachgook | ||
| Robert Gregory | ||
| Ben Hart | ||
| Jim | ||
| Jim Conway | ||
| Frank Hammond | ||
| N/A | ||
| Paul Hapgood | ||
| Jack Sanders | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sheriff John Allen | ||
| Dorian Gray | ||
| 1912 | Bill Binks | |
| Wally, a Cowboy | ||
| Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave | ||
| N/A | ||
| Captain Stark, U.S.A. | ||
| John Dayton | ||
| Dan, a Young Pioneer | ||
| Robert Chapman - the Son | ||
| Bob Madden | ||
| Tom | ||
| The Secret Service Man | ||
| Billy Burns | ||
| Joe Mayfield | ||
| Dick Wilson - Union Soldier | ||
| Wathuma - the Leopard | ||
| Arthur Ingraham | ||
| Icilius | ||
| The Artist | ||
| Basil Underwood | ||
| Clerk | ||
| Opera Attendee (uncredited) | ||
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| Lt. Cholmodeley | ||
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| Giuseppe's Father | ||
| One of the Beecham Brothers | ||
| Jack Watson | ||
| Party Guest at Piano (uncredited) | ||
| Oniatore / Romeo | ||
| Billy Hallock | ||
| George - the Denouement | ||
| The Country Boy | ||
| N/A | ||
| Extra | ||
| 1911 | Midas | |
| The Mother's Friend Back East | ||
| Cohn, Jones' Assistant | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1910 | Young Reporter | |
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Writing
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| 1916 | Scenario Writer | |
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