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.
Acting
296
Male
1891-04-14
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
William Wallace Halleck Reid
Joan the Woman
Rent Free
The Love Burglar
The Dancin' Fool
The Affairs of Anatol
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
The Leading Lady
The Phoenix
The Indian Raiders
The Reporter
His Only Son
War
The Mother of the Ranch
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
The Seventh Son
Chumps
The Path of True Love
Jean Intervenes
Playmates
Indian Romeo and Juliet
The Illumination
Brothers
The Victoria Cross
At Scrogginses' Corner
The Telephone Girl
The Hieroglyphic
Fortunes of a Composer
Early Days in the West
Virginius
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Kaintuck
His Mother's Son
At Cripple Creek
Before the White Man Came
The Gamblers
A Man's Duty
The Secret Service Man
Making Good
Hunted Down
The Hidden Treasure
A Daughter of the Redskins
The Seepore Rebellion
Love and the Law
The Cowboy Guardians
The Tribal Law
An Indian Outcast
The Guerilla Menace
Song Bird of the North
Their Masterpiece
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Pirate Gold
Pride of Lonesome
The Powder Flash of Death
The Picket Guard
A Foreign Spy
Mental Suicide
A Rose of Old Mexico
The Eye of a God
When Jim Returned
Near To Earth
The Tattooed Arm
The Ways of Fate
The Brothers
The Kiss
The Heart of the Hills
Youth and Jealousy
The House of Silence
The Dub
Too Many Millions
The Wheel of Life
A Flash in the Dark
The Thing We Love
Thirty Days
The Greater Devotion
Fires of Conscience
Breed o' the Mountains
The Man from Funeral Range
Regeneration
Her Innocent Marriage
A Modern Snare
On the Border
Cupid Incognito
The Test
The Spider and Her Web
The Mountaineer
The Voice of the Viola
The Way of a Woman
A Gypsy Romance
The Skeleton
When Luck Changes
In Love and War
Via Cabaret
Hearts and Horses
Women and War
The Fruit of Evil
The Quack
The Daughter of a Crook
Women and Roses
The Siren
Man's Duty
Passing of the Beast
The Man Within
An Even Exchange
The Harvest of Flame
The Animal
The Gratitude of Wanda
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
The Spark of Manhood
The Wall of Money
The Cracksman's Reformation
The Heart of a Cracksman
Cross Purposes
The Fires of Fate
Retribution
A Hopi Legend
A Cracksman Santa Claus
The Lightning Bolt
The Intruder
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
The Countess Betty's Mine
Love's Western Flight
The Lost House
Station Content
The Craven
A Yankee from the West
The Chorus Lady
Down by the Sounding Sea
The Wall of Flame
The Yellow Pawn
The Wrong Heart
'Cross the Mexican Line
A Wife on a Wager
The Den of Thieves
The City Beautiful
For Her Father's Sins
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Her Doggy
Her Awakening
The Avenging Conscience
Moonshine Molly
Down the Hill to Creditville
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
The High Grader
The Niggard
The Odalisque
Over the Ledge
Another Chance
A Mother's Influence
At Dawn
The Exposure
The Joke on Yellentown
The Love Mask
To Have and to Hold
The House with the Golden Windows
The Selfish Woman
The Golden Fetter
The Man Who Saved the Day
The Tell-Tale Arm
The Prison Without Walls
The World Apart
Rimrock Jones
The Squaw Man's Son
The Hostage
The Firefly of France
Believe Me, Xantippe
The Source
Less Than Kin
His Extra Bit
The Lottery Man
Alias Mike Moran
Double Speed
Too Much Speed
The Charm School
Clarence
The Hell Diggers
Baby's Ride
Carmen
Enoch Arden
The Woman God Forgot
The Roaring Road
Excuse My Dust
Arms and the Gringo
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
A Trip to Paramountown
Nice People
Big Timber
Old Heidelberg
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
The Golden Chance
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Diamond Cut Diamond
Every Inch a Man
The Deerslayer
The Birth of a Nation
The Ghost Breaker
The Love Special
The World's Champion
The Spirit of the Flag
Maria Rosa
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Forever
The Valley of the Giants
What's Your Hurry?
The House That Shadows Built
The Three Brothers
The Little Country Mouse
Always Audacious
Sick Abed
You're Fired
The Dictator
The Devil Stone
Night Life in Hollywood
Don't Tell Everything
Nan of Music Mountain
Across the Continent
The Movie Album
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel