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Wallace Reid
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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. Alread…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Wallace Reid's Filmography
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
Thirty Days
as John Floyd
Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
The Dictator
as Brooke Travers
Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
Rent Free
as Buell Arnister Jr
Don't Tell Everything
as Cullen Dale
Forever
as Peter Ibbetson
The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
The Hell Diggers
as Teddy Darman
Too Much Speed
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
The Love Special
as Jim Glover
No Poster
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
as As himself
The Charm School
as Austin Bevans
Always Audacious
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
What's Your Hurry?
as Dusty Rhoades
Sick Abed
as Reginald Jay
The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
Double Speed
as 'Speed' Carr
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
The Lottery Man
as Jack Wright
The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
The Love Burglar
as David Strong
You're Fired
as Billy Deering
The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
Alias Mike Moran
as Larry Young
The Dub
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
Too Many Millions
as Walsingham Van Doren
The Man from Funeral Range
as Harry Webb
No Poster
His Extra Bit
as The Husband
The Source
as Van Twiller Yard
Less Than Kin
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
The Firefly of France
as Devereux Bayne
Believe Me, Xantippe
as George MacFarland
The House of Silence
as Marcel Levington
The Thing We Love
as Rodney Sheridan
Rimrock Jones
as Rimrock Jones
The Devil Stone
as Guy Sterling
Nan of Music Mountain
as Henry de Spain
The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
The Hostage
as Lieutenant Kemper
No Poster
The Squaw Man's Son
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
Big Timber
as Jack Fife
The World Apart
as Bob Fulton
No Poster
The Tell-Tale Arm
The Prison Without Walls
as Huntington Babbs
No Poster
The Man Who Saved the Day
as John King
The Golden Fetter
as James Roger Ralston
Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
No Poster
The Wrong Heart
No Poster
The Wall of Flame
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
The Yellow Pawn
as James Weldon
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
The House with the Golden Windows
as Tom Wells
The Selfish Woman
as Tom Morley
Maria Rosa
as Andreas
The Love Mask
as Dan Derring
To Have and to Hold
as Captain Ralph Percy
The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
Carmen
as Don Jose
The Chorus Lady
as Danny Mallory
No Poster
A Yankee from the West
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
Station Content
as Jim Manning
Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
The Lost House
as Ford
The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
No Poster
The Craven
as Bud Walton
The Three Brothers
as Jean Gaudet / Will
No Poster
Baby's Ride
as Father
No Poster
The Exposure
as The Reporter
No Poster
The Joke on Yellentown
At Dawn
as The Lieutenant
No Poster
Over the Ledge
as Bob
No Poster
Another Chance
as Detective Flynn
The Little Country Mouse
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
No Poster
The Odalisque
as Curtiss
No Poster
The Niggard
as Elmer Kent
No Poster
A Mother's Influence
as Wallace Burton - the Son
No Poster
For Her Father's Sins
as Frank Bell
No Poster
Her Doggy
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
No Poster
Her Awakening
as Bob Turner
No Poster
Down the Hill to Creditville
as Marcus Down
No Poster
The High Grader
as Dick Raleigh
No Poster
Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
No Poster
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Samuel Roebuck
The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
No Poster
Moonshine Molly
as Lawson Keene
No Poster
Down by the Sounding Sea
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
No Poster
The City Beautiful
as The Country Boy
Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
The Den of Thieves
as Wallace
'Cross the Mexican Line
as Lt. Wallace
No Poster
A Wife on a Wager
as Wally Bristow
No Poster
Love's Western Flight
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
No Poster
Passing of the Beast
as Jacques - the Woodsman
No Poster
The Man Within
as The Outlaw
No Poster
The Siren
as Dane Northrop
No Poster
The Quack
as Wallace Rosslyn
Women and Roses
as Wallace
No Poster
The Daughter of a Crook
as Neal
No Poster
The Fruit of Evil
No Poster
The Skeleton
as Jack - the Young Husband
No Poster
The Test
as The Poor Man
No Poster
A Gypsy Romance
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
No Poster
Cupid Incognito
as Jack Falkner
The Spider and Her Web
No Poster
The Way of a Woman
as Pierre
No Poster
The Mountaineer
as Jim - the Mountaineer
The Heart of the Hills
as Dave - the Woodsman
No Poster
The Voice of the Viola
as Wallace
No Poster
Regeneration
as The Artist
No Poster
Breed o' the Mountains
as Joe Mayfield
No Poster
A Flash in the Dark
as A Miner
No Poster
The Greater Devotion
as 'Devotion'
No Poster
Fires of Conscience
as Ray - the Prospector
No Poster
The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector
No Poster
The Countess Betty's Mine
as Wallace
No Poster
The Intruder
as The Woodsman
No Poster
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Wally
No Poster
A Hopi Legend
No Poster
The Lightning Bolt
as Reid
No Poster
A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Gentleman Crook
No Poster
Retribution
as Reid
No Poster
Cross Purposes
as Wally
No Poster
The Fires of Fate
as Wally - the Doctor
No Poster
The Cracksman's Reformation
as Gentleman Crook
No Poster
The Heart of a Cracksman
as Gentleman Crook
No Poster
The Wall of Money
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
No Poster
The Gratitude of Wanda
as Wally
No Poster
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
No Poster
The Spark of Manhood
as Humphrey Van Weyden
No Poster
The Harvest of Flame
as The Inspector
No Poster
The Animal
as The Animal
No Poster
An Even Exchange
as Joe
No Poster
Man's Duty
as Bill, the Selfish One
No Poster
Mental Suicide
as Reid - a Contractor
No Poster
The Picket Guard
as Sentry
No Poster
A Foreign Spy
The Powder Flash of Death
as Captain Bruce Douglas
No Poster
Pride of Lonesome
as Edward Daton
No Poster
Song Bird of the North
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
No Poster
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
as Policeman
No Poster
The Guerilla Menace
as Captain Bruce Douglas
No Poster
Women and War
as The Boy
No Poster
In Love and War
as David - the Journalist
No Poster
Hearts and Horses
as Bill Walters
The Spirit of the Flag
as Dr. Reid
No Poster
Via Cabaret
as Harry Reeder
No Poster
When Luck Changes
as Cal Jim
No Poster
His Mother's Son
No Poster
On the Border
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
No Poster
Her Innocent Marriage
as Will Wayne
No Poster
A Modern Snare
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
No Poster
The Kiss
as Ralph Walters
No Poster
Youth and Jealousy
as Ben
The Deerslayer
as Chingachgook
No Poster
The Brothers
as Robert Gregory
No Poster
The Tattooed Arm
as Ben Hart
No Poster
When Jim Returned
as Jim
No Poster
The Ways of Fate
as Jim Conway
No Poster
The Eye of a God
as Frank Hammond
Near To Earth
No Poster
A Rose of Old Mexico
as Paul Hapgood
No Poster
Their Masterpiece
as Jack Sanders
No Poster
Pirate Gold
No Poster
Love and the Law
as Sheriff John Allen
No Poster
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
No Poster
The Hidden Treasure
as Bill Binks
No Poster
An Indian Outcast
as Wally, a Cowboy
No Poster
The Tribal Law
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
No Poster
The Cowboy Guardians
No Poster
A Daughter of the Redskins
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
No Poster
Hunted Down
as John Dayton
No Poster
Early Days in the West
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
No Poster
Every Inch a Man
as Robert Chapman - the Son
His Only Son
as Bob Madden
No Poster
The Indian Raiders
as Tom
No Poster
The Secret Service Man
as The Secret Service Man
No Poster
Making Good
as Billy Burns
At Cripple Creek
as Joe Mayfield
No Poster
A Man's Duty
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
No Poster
Before the White Man Came
as Wathuma - the Leopard
No Poster
The Gamblers
as Arthur Ingraham
No Poster
Virginius
as Icilius
No Poster
Kaintuck
as The Artist
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Basil Underwood
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Clerk
No Poster
Fortunes of a Composer
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
No Poster
The Hieroglyphic
The Victoria Cross
as Lt. Cholmodeley
No Poster
Brothers
No Poster
At Scrogginses' Corner
The Illumination
as Giuseppe's Father
The Seventh Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers
No Poster
The Telephone Girl
as Jack Watson
Playmates
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Indian Romeo and Juliet
as Oniatore / Romeo
No Poster
Jean Intervenes
as Billy Hallock
Chumps
as George - the Denouement
No Poster
The Path of True Love
as The Country Boy
No Poster
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
No Poster
The Seepore Rebellion
as Extra
No Poster
War
as Midas
The Mother of the Ranch
as The Mother's Friend Back East
No Poster
The Reporter
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
No Poster
The Leading Lady
No Poster
The Phoenix
as Young Reporter