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Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid

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.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

296

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-04-14

Place of Birth

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Also Known As

William Wallace Halleck Reid

Known For

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
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