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person_profile-Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid Died at age: 31

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Wallace Reid

Date of Birth:

Apr 15, 1891

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 18, 1923

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Wallace Reid

Found 66 Movies in total

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1961

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1931

Thirty Days

John Floyd ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1922

Clarence

Clarence Smith ( Actor )

... 1922

The Ghost Breaker

Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker ( Actor )

... 1922

Nice People

Captain Billy Wade ( Actor )

... 1922

The Dictator

Brooke Travers ( Actor )

... 1922

Across the Continent

Jimmy Dent ( Actor )

... 1922

The World's Champion

William Burroughs ( Actor )

... 1922

Rent Free

Buell Arnister Jr ( Actor )

... 1922

Don't Tell Everything

Cullen Dale ( Actor )

... 1921

The Affairs of Anatol

Anatol Spencer ( Actor )

... 1921

The Hell Diggers

Teddy Darman ( Actor )

... 1921

Too Much Speed

'Dusty' Rhoades ( Actor )

... 1921

The Love Special

Jim Glover ( Actor )

... 1921

The Charm School

Austin Bevans ( Actor )

... 1921

Always Audacious

Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks ( Actor )

... 1920

What's Your Hurry?

Dusty Rhoades ( Actor )

... 1920

Sick Abed

Reginald Jay ( Actor )

... 1920

The Dancin' Fool

Sylvester Tibble ( Actor )

... 1920

Excuse My Dust

'Toodles' Walden ( Actor )

... 1920

Double Speed

'Speed' Carr ( Actor )

... 1920

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne ( Actor )

... 1919

The Lottery Man

Jack Wright ( Actor )

... 1919

The Valley of the Giants

Bryce Cardigan ( Actor )

... 1919

The Love Burglar

David Strong ( Actor )

... 1919

You're Fired

Billy Deering ( Actor )

... 1919

The Roaring Road

Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden ( Actor )

... 1919

Alias Mike Moran

Larry Young ( Actor )

... 1919

The Dub

John Craig (The 'Dub') ( Actor )

... 1919

Too Many Millions

Walsingham Van Doren ( Actor )

... 1918

The Man from Funeral Range

Harry Webb ( Actor )

... 1918

The Source

Van Twiller Yard ( Actor )

... 1918

Less Than Kin

Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers ( Actor )

... 1918

The Firefly of France

Devereux Bayne ( Actor )

... 1918

Believe Me, Xantippe

George MacFarland ( Actor )

... 1918

The House of Silence

Marcel Levington ( Actor )

... 1918

The Thing We Love

Rodney Sheridan ( Actor )

... 1918

Rimrock Jones

Rimrock Jones ( Actor )

... 1918

The Devil Stone

Guy Sterling ( Actor )

... 1917

Nan of Music Mountain

Henry de Spain ( Actor )

... 1917

The Woman God Forgot

Alvarado ( Actor )

... 1917

The Hostage

Lieutenant Kemper ( Actor )

... 1917

The Squaw Man's Son

Lord Effington, aka Hal ( Actor )

... 1917

Big Timber

Jack Fife ( Actor )

... 1917

The World Apart

Bob Fulton ( Actor )

... 1917

The Prison Without Walls

Huntington Babbs ( Actor )

... 1917

The Golden Fetter

James Roger Ralston ( Actor )

... 1917

Joan the Woman

Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917 ( Actor )

... 1916

The Yellow Pawn

James Weldon ( Actor )

... 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1916

... 1916

The Selfish Woman

Tom Morley ( Actor )

... 1916

Maria Rosa

Andreas ( Actor )

... 1916

The Love Mask

Dan Derring ( Actor )

... 1916

To Have and to Hold

Captain Ralph Percy ( Actor )

... 1916

The Golden Chance

Roger Manning ( Actor )

... 1915

Old Heidelberg

Prince Karl Heinrich ( Actor )

... 1915

Carmen

Don Jose ( Actor )

... 1915

The Chorus Lady

Danny Mallory ( Actor )

... 1915

Enoch Arden

Walter Fenn ( Actor )

... 1915

The Lost House

Ford ( Actor )

... 1915

The Birth of a Nation

Jeff, the Blacksmith ( Actor )

... 1915

The Avenging Conscience

The Doctor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1914

The Deerslayer

Chingachgook ( Actor )

... 1913