
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.
Acting (93 movies)

Joan the Woman
1916

Rent Free
1922

The Love Burglar
1919

The Dancin' Fool
1920

The Affairs of Anatol
1921

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961

His Only Son
1912

The Mother of the Ranch
1911

The Seventh Son
1912

Chumps
1912

Playmates
1912

Indian Romeo and Juliet
1912

The Illumination
1912

The Victoria Cross
1912

Fortunes of a Composer
1912

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912

At Cripple Creek
1912

The Powder Flash of Death
1913

Near To Earth
1913

The Heart of the Hills
1914

The House of Silence
1918

The Dub
1919

Too Many Millions
1918

The Thing We Love
1918

Thirty Days
1922

The Man from Funeral Range
1918

The Spider and Her Web
1914

The Lost House
1915

Station Content
1915

The Chorus Lady
1915

The Yellow Pawn
1916

'Cross the Mexican Line
1914

The Den of Thieves
1914

The Avenging Conscience
1914

At Dawn
1914

The Love Mask
1916

To Have and to Hold
1916

The House with the Golden Windows
1916

The Selfish Woman
1916

The Golden Fetter
1917

The Prison Without Walls
1917

The World Apart
1917

Rimrock Jones
1918

The Squaw Man's Son
1917

The Hostage
1917

The Firefly of France
1918

Believe Me, Xantippe
1918

The Source
1918

Less Than Kin
1918

The Lottery Man
1919

Alias Mike Moran
1919

Double Speed
1920

Too Much Speed
1921

The Charm School
1921

Clarence
1922

The Hell Diggers
1921

Carmen
1915

Enoch Arden
1915

The Woman God Forgot
1917

The Roaring Road
1919

Excuse My Dust
1920

Arms and the Gringo
1914

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942

A Trip to Paramountown
1922

Nice People
1922

Big Timber
1917

Old Heidelberg
1915

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919

The Golden Chance
1915

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916

Diamond Cut Diamond
1912

The Deerslayer
1913

The Birth of a Nation
1915

The Ghost Breaker
1922

The Love Special
1921

The World's Champion
1922

The Spirit of the Flag
1913

Maria Rosa
1916

Forever
1921

The Valley of the Giants
1919

What's Your Hurry?
1920

The House That Shadows Built
1931

The Three Brothers
1915

The Little Country Mouse
1914

Always Audacious
1920

Sick Abed
1920

You're Fired
1919

The Dictator
1922

The Devil Stone
1917

Night Life in Hollywood
1922

Don't Tell Everything
1921

Nan of Music Mountain
1917

Across the Continent
1922
Directing (56 movies)
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
The Ways of Fate
1913
The Tattooed Arm
1913
When Jim Returned
1913
The Kiss
1913
The Brothers
1913

The Heart of the Hills
1914
Youth and Jealousy
1913
Her Innocent Marriage
1913
On the Border
1913
A Modern Snare
1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
The Fires of Fate
1913
Cross Purposes
1913
Retribution
1913
The Lightning Bolt
1913
A Hopi Legend
1913
A Flash in the Dark
1914
The Wheel of Life
1914
The Greater Devotion
1914
Fires of Conscience
1914
The Intruder
1914
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
Regeneration
1914
The Mountaineer
1914
The Voice of the Viola
1914
The Way of a Woman
1914
Cupid Incognito
1914
The Test
1914
A Gypsy Romance
1914
When Luck Changes
1913
Via Cabaret
1913
Hearts and Horses
1913
The Skeleton
1914
Pride of Lonesome
1913
A Foreign Spy
1913
Love's Western Flight
1914
The Fruit of Evil
1914

The Den of Thieves
1914
A Wife on a Wager
1914

'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
The Quack
1914
Women and Roses
1914
The Siren
1914
Passing of the Beast
1914
The Man Within
1914
The Wrong Heart
1916
The Harvest of Flame
1913
The Spark of Manhood
1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
The Tribal Law
1912
The Hidden Treasure
1912
Love and the Law
1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Before the White Man Came | 1912 | Writer | 
| The Tribal Law | 1912 | Writer | 
| When Jim Returned | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Tattooed Arm | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Spirit of the Flag | 1913 | Writer | 
| Women and War | 1913 | Writer | 
| Mental Suicide | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Harvest of Flame | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Heart of a Cracksman | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Cracksman's Reformation | 1913 | Writer | 
| A Cracksman Santa Claus | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Lightning Bolt | 1913 | Writer | 
| A Hopi Legend | 1913 | Writer | 
| The Heart of the Hills | 1914 | Writer | 
| The Mountaineer | 1914 | Writer | 
| Cupid Incognito | 1914 | Writer | 
| The Fruit of Evil | 1914 | Writer | 
| Women and Roses | 1914 | Writer |