Wallace Reid
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.
216 acting credits · 56 directing credits
Acting · 216
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Birth of a Nation
1915
The Avenging Conscience
1914
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
The Odalisque
1914
Near To Earth
1913
The Woman God Forgot
1917
Always Audacious
1920
The Dictator
1922
Old Heidelberg
1915
Carmen
1915
The Dancin' Fool
1920
The Lottery Man
1919
Across the Continent
1922
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
The Valley of the Giants
1919
The Ghost Breaker
1922
Clarence
1922
A Wife on a Wager
1914
Enoch Arden
1915
To Have and to Hold
1916
Nice People
1922
The Prison Without Walls
1917
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
Rimrock Jones
1918
Pirate Gold
1913
The Golden Fetter
1917
Less Than Kin
1918
The Picket Guard
1913
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
An Even Exchange
1913
The Golden Chance
1915
Joan the Woman
1916
The Deerslayer
1913
Rent Free
1922
The Little Country Mouse
1914
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
The World Apart
1917
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
The Craven
1915
The Den of Thieves
1914
The Devil Stone
1917
A Gypsy Romance
1914
The Gamblers
1912
Forever
1921
The Mountaineer
1914
The Indian Raiders
1912
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
The Selfish Woman
1916
Playmates
1912
Don't Tell Everything
1921
Cupid Incognito
1914
The Lost House
1915
Nan of Music Mountain
1917
Passing of the Beast
1914
The Roaring Road
1919
Retribution
1913
The Fruit of Evil
1914
Big Timber
1917
The Dub
1919
The House That Shadows Built
1931
The Mother of the Ranch
1911
Thirty Days
1922
The Intruder
1914
The Wall of Money
1913
Before the White Man Came
1912
The Wheel of Life
1914
Excuse My Dust
1920
In Love and War
1913
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
For Her Father's Sins
1914
You're Fired
1919
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
The Brothers
1913
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
The Man from Funeral Range
1918
A Flash in the Dark
1914
The Charm School
1921
The Test
1914
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
1913
Via Cabaret
1913
Sick Abed
1920
The Love Mask
1916
Believe Me, Xantippe
1918
War
1911
The Source
1918
The Powder Flash of Death
1913
The World's Champion
1922
The Siren
1914
Women and Roses
1914
Over the Ledge
1914
The Three Brothers
1915
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The Hostage
1917
Too Many Millions
1918
What's Your Hurry?
1920
The Secret Service Man
1912
The Fires of Fate
1913
Night Life in Hollywood
1922
The Firefly of France
1918
Baby's Ride
1914
Maria Rosa
1916
The Heart of the Hills
1914
The Yellow Pawn
1916
The Phoenix
1910
The Tattooed Arm
1913
The House of Silence
1918
His Only Son
1912
The Exposure
1914
Arms and the Gringo
1914
Their Masterpiece
1913
Fortunes of a Composer
1912
A Daughter of the Redskins
1912
Alias Mike Moran
1919
An Indian Outcast
1912
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
At Dawn
1914
Brothers
1912
Her Doggy
1914
Every Inch a Man
1912
The Hell Diggers
1921
The Lightning Bolt
1913
Virginius
1912
Love's Western Flight
1914
Indian Romeo and Juliet
1912
Chumps
1912
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
The Greater Devotion
1914
Double Speed
1920
Too Much Speed
1921
Fires of Conscience
1914
The Voice of the Viola
1914
The House with the Golden Windows
1916
Sierra Jim's Reformation
1914
Her Awakening
1914
The Leading Lady
1911
A Yankee from the West
1915
The Chorus Lady
1915
The Hidden Treasure
1912
The Love Burglar
1919
The Illumination
1912
The Movie Album
1932
The Seventh Son
1912
The Tribal Law
1912
Regeneration
1914
Love and the Law
1913
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
Down by the Sounding Sea
1914
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
1912
Youth and Jealousy
1913
His Extra Bit
1918
The Hieroglyphic
1912
Song Bird of the North
1913
The Way of a Woman
1914
The Thing We Love
1918
Another Chance
1914
The Spark of Manhood
1913
Station Content
1915
A Man's Duty
1912
At Scrogginses' Corner
1912
Hearts and Horses
1913
Mental Suicide
1913
Moonshine Molly
1914
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
The Kiss
1913
A Hopi Legend
1913
The Skeleton
1914
The Path of True Love
1912
The Quack
1914
Man's Duty
1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
The Niggard
1914
Kaintuck
1912
The Spirit of the Flag
1913
Jean Intervenes
1912
When Jim Returned
1913
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912
At Cripple Creek
1912
The Eye of a God
1913
The Reporter
1911
The Tell-Tale Arm
1917
A Mother's Influence
1914
The Wall of Flame
1916
Pride of Lonesome
1913
The Telephone Girl
1912
The Joke on Yellentown
1914
The Harvest of Flame
1913
The Man Within
1914
The Animal
1913
The City Beautiful
1914
His Mother's Son
1913
The Seepore Rebellion
1912
The Love Special
1921
The Cowboy Guardians
1912
The Wrong Heart
1916
Early Days in the West
1912
The Guerilla Menace
1913
The Daughter of a Crook
1914
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
1914
The Victoria Cross
1912
Hunted Down
1912
Women and War
1913
Diamond Cut Diamond
1912
A Foreign Spy
1913
A Modern Snare
1913
On the Border
1913
Making Good
1912
The Ways of Fate
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
Her Innocent Marriage
1913
When Luck Changes
1913
The High Grader
1914
Cross Purposes
1913
Directing · 56
A Wife on a Wager
1914
The Den of Thieves
1914
A Gypsy Romance
1914
The Mountaineer
1914
Cupid Incognito
1914
Passing of the Beast
1914
Retribution
1913
The Fruit of Evil
1914
The Intruder
1914
The Wheel of Life
1914
The Brothers
1913
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
A Flash in the Dark
1914
The Test
1914
Via Cabaret
1913
The Siren
1914
Women and Roses
1914
The Fires of Fate
1913
The Heart of the Hills
1914
The Tattooed Arm
1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
The Lightning Bolt
1913
Love's Western Flight
1914
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
The Greater Devotion
1914
Fires of Conscience
1914
The Voice of the Viola
1914
The Hidden Treasure
1912
The Tribal Law
1912
Regeneration
1914
Love and the Law
1913
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
Youth and Jealousy
1913
The Way of a Woman
1914
The Spark of Manhood
1913
Hearts and Horses
1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
The Kiss
1913
A Hopi Legend
1913
The Skeleton
1914
The Quack
1914
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
When Jim Returned
1913
Pride of Lonesome
1913
The Harvest of Flame
1913
The Man Within
1914
The Wrong Heart
1916
A Modern Snare
1913
A Foreign Spy
1913
On the Border
1913
The Ways of Fate
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
Her Innocent Marriage
1913
When Luck Changes
1913
Cross Purposes
1913