Cast
Wallace Reid
Acting
Cast
Wallace Reid
Known for
Acting
Born
1891-04-14
From
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Died
1923-01-18
Also known as William Wallace Halleck 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.
★6.0
MOVIE1915
The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
MOVIE1913
Retribution
as Reid
MOVIE1913
The Kiss
as Ralph Walters
MOVIE1914
The Heart of the Hills
as Dave - the Woodsman
★7.1
MOVIE1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
MOVIE1914
The Intruder
as The Woodsman
MOVIE1912
The Hieroglyphic
MOVIE1921
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
as As himself
MOVIE1913
Cross Purposes
as Wally
MOVIE1914
The Skeleton
as Jack - the Young Husband
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Thirty Days
as John Floyd
MOVIE1918
Rimrock Jones
as Rimrock Jones
★10.0
MOVIE1919
The Lottery Man
as Jack Wright
MOVIE1914
Regeneration
as The Artist
★5.0
MOVIE1912
The Victoria Cross
as Lt. Cholmodeley
★5.0
MOVIE1914
The Test
as The Poor Man
MOVIE1912
Making Good
as Billy Burns
★6.5
MOVIE1912
Playmates
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
MOVIE1913
Love and the Law
as Sheriff John Allen
★4.0
MOVIE1912
Fortunes of a Composer
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1913
Their Masterpiece
as Jack Sanders
MOVIE1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
as Lt. Wallace
★6.0
MOVIE1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Clerk
MOVIE1912
Chumps
as George - the Denouement
MOVIE1914
For Her Father's Sins
as Frank Bell
★9.0
MOVIE1912
Hunted Down
as John Dayton
★10.0
MOVIE1922
The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
MOVIE1918
The House of Silence
as Marcel Levington
MOVIE1913
The Animal
as The Animal
MOVIE1912
The Gamblers
as Arthur Ingraham
MOVIE1913
The Brothers
as Robert Gregory
MOVIE1917
The World Apart
as Bob Fulton
MOVIE1914
Passing of the Beast
as Jacques - the Woodsman
MOVIE1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
as Wally
★5.9
MOVIE1921
The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
★7.5
MOVIE1932
The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1921
The Charm School
as Austin Bevans
MOVIE1918
Believe Me, Xantippe
as George MacFarland
MOVIE1919
Alias Mike Moran
as Larry Young
MOVIE1914
Love's Western Flight
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
MOVIE1918
Too Many Millions
as Walsingham Van Doren
MOVIE1914
The Mountaineer
as Jim - the Mountaineer
MOVIE1914
A Flash in the Dark
as A Miner
★5.0
MOVIE1914
The Little Country Mouse
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
★7.0
MOVIE1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1914
Over the Ledge
as Bob
★7.0
MOVIE1912
An Indian Outcast
as Wally, a Cowboy
MOVIE1912
Brothers
★9.5
MOVIE1911
War
as Midas
★7.0
MOVIE1913
The Eye of a God
as Frank Hammond
MOVIE1914
The Voice of the Viola
as Wallace
MOVIE1913
A Hopi Legend
MOVIE1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Gentleman Crook
MOVIE1914
The Spider and Her Web
★8.0
MOVIE1912
A Daughter of the Redskins
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
★7.0
MOVIE1914
The Joke on Yellentown
MOVIE1917
Nan of Music Mountain
as Henry de Spain
MOVIE1913
The Picket Guard
as Sentry
MOVIE1914
Fires of Conscience
as Ray - the Prospector
MOVIE1914
The Countess Betty's Mine
as Wallace
MOVIE1915
The Chorus Lady
as Danny Mallory
MOVIE1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Samuel Roebuck
MOVIE1913
An Even Exchange
as Joe
MOVIE1913
Her Innocent Marriage
as Will Wayne
★5.6
MOVIE1916
Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
MOVIE1914
The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector
MOVIE1913
Women and War
as The Boy
★6.1
MOVIE1915
Carmen
as Don Jose
MOVIE1914
A Wife on a Wager
as Wally Bristow
MOVIE1914
Women and Roses
as Wallace
MOVIE1911
The Leading Lady
MOVIE1912
Early Days in the West
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
MOVIE1913
The Fires of Fate
as Wally - the Doctor
MOVIE1913
The Cracksman's Reformation
as Gentleman Crook
MOVIE1914
A Gypsy Romance
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
★10.0
MOVIE1913
The Guerilla Menace
as Captain Bruce Douglas
MOVIE1917
The Man Who Saved the Day
as John King
★7.0
MOVIE1912
The Cowboy Guardians
MOVIE1913
The Lightning Bolt
as Reid
★8.0
MOVIE1922
The Dictator
as Brooke Travers
MOVIE1914
The Fruit of Evil
★7.0
MOVIE1916
The Wrong Heart
MOVIE1913
A Modern Snare
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
MOVIE1910
The Phoenix
as Young Reporter
MOVIE1913
Man's Duty
as Bill, the Selfish One
★5.0
MOVIE1915
Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
★6.0
MOVIE1921
The Hell Diggers
as Teddy Darman
★8.0
MOVIE1920
The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
★6.3
MOVIE1915
Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
MOVIE1913
On the Border
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
MOVIE1912
Indian Romeo and Juliet
as Oniatore / Romeo
MOVIE1913
Youth and Jealousy
as Ben
MOVIE1914
Baby's Ride
as Father
MOVIE1913
The Tattooed Arm
as Ben Hart
MOVIE1912
Before the White Man Came
as Wathuma - the Leopard
★8.0
MOVIE1917
The Tell-Tale Arm
★8.0
MOVIE1912
The Seepore Rebellion
as Extra
MOVIE1913
The Spark of Manhood
as Humphrey Van Weyden
MOVIE1912
His Only Son
as Bob Madden
MOVIE1914
A Mother's Influence
as Wallace Burton - the Son
MOVIE1914
The Greater Devotion
as 'Devotion'
★7.8
MOVIE1922
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE1917
The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
★7.0
MOVIE1922
Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE1914
Her Doggy
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
MOVIE1913
Pirate Gold
★6.3
MOVIE1919
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
MOVIE1916
To Have and to Hold
as Captain Ralph Percy
★5.0
MOVIE1913
The Spirit of the Flag
as Dr. Reid
★7.0
MOVIE1916
The Wall of Flame
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
MOVIE1912
The Tribal Law
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
MOVIE1916
Maria Rosa
as Andreas
MOVIE1912
The Telephone Girl
as Jack Watson
MOVIE1913
Mental Suicide
as Reid - a Contractor
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Double Speed
as 'Speed' Carr
★8.5
MOVIE1931
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
MOVIE1913
The Harvest of Flame
as The Inspector
MOVIE1914
The City Beautiful
as The Country Boy
★8.0
MOVIE1913
His Mother's Son
MOVIE1915
A Yankee from the West
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
★5.0
MOVIE1913
When Jim Returned
as Jim
MOVIE1913
When Luck Changes
as Cal Jim
MOVIE1914
Down the Hill to Creditville
as Marcus Down
★5.9
MOVIE1914
The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
MOVIE1914
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Wally
★10.0
MOVIE1912
The Hidden Treasure
as Bill Binks
MOVIE1912
The Indian Raiders
as Tom
MOVIE1914
The Quack
as Wallace Rosslyn
★8.0
MOVIE1919
The Love Burglar
as David Strong
★5.9
MOVIE1920
Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
MOVIE1912
Every Inch a Man
as Robert Chapman - the Son
MOVIE1914
Breed o' the Mountains
as Joe Mayfield
MOVIE1912
The Secret Service Man
as The Secret Service Man
★7.0
MOVIE1914
The Daughter of a Crook
as Neal
MOVIE1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Don't Tell Everything
as Cullen Dale
MOVIE1914
Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
★7.0
MOVIE1920
Sick Abed
as Reginald Jay
MOVIE1918
The Firefly of France
as Devereux Bayne
MOVIE1917
The Squaw Man's Son
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
MOVIE1918
Less Than Kin
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
MOVIE1912
At Scrogginses' Corner
MOVIE1914
The Den of Thieves
as Wallace
MOVIE1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1914
The Man Within
as The Outlaw
★6.1
MOVIE1919
The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
MOVIE1914
Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
★9.0
MOVIE1919
You're Fired
as Billy Deering
★9.0
MOVIE1922
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
MOVIE1913
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
MOVIE1911
The Mother of the Ranch
as The Mother's Friend Back East
MOVIE1917
The Golden Fetter
as James Roger Ralston
MOVIE1912
The Seventh Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers
★9.0
MOVIE1919
The Dub
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
MOVIE1917
The Devil Stone
as Guy Sterling
★6.6
MOVIE1915
The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
MOVIE1916
The Love Mask
as Dan Derring
★7.0
MOVIE1912
The Path of True Love
as The Country Boy
★6.2
MOVIE1913
The Deerslayer
as Chingachgook
MOVIE1918
The Man from Funeral Range
as Harry Webb
MOVIE1913
Hearts and Horses
as Bill Walters
MOVIE1918
The Thing We Love
as Rodney Sheridan
MOVIE1915
The Lost House
as Ford
MOVIE1913
The Powder Flash of Death
as Captain Bruce Douglas
MOVIE1914
The Exposure
as The Reporter
MOVIE1913
The Wall of Money
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
MOVIE1914
Moonshine Molly
as Lawson Keene
★8.0
MOVIE1912
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
MOVIE1913
Near To Earth
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
MOVIE1918
The Source
as Van Twiller Yard
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Forever
as Peter Ibbetson
MOVIE1917
The Hostage
as Lieutenant Kemper
MOVIE1917
The Prison Without Walls
as Huntington Babbs
MOVIE1915
Station Content
as Jim Manning
MOVIE1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
as Gentleman Crook
MOVIE1916
The Selfish Woman
as Tom Morley
MOVIE1913
In Love and War
as David - the Journalist
★9.0
MOVIE1922
Rent Free
as Buell Arnister Jr
MOVIE1914
Cupid Incognito
as Jack Falkner
MOVIE1914
The Odalisque
as Curtiss
MOVIE1916
The House with the Golden Windows
as Tom Wells
★8.0
MOVIE1922
The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
★8.0
MOVIE1921
The Love Special
as Jim Glover
★9.0
MOVIE1920
Always Audacious
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
MOVIE1914
Her Awakening
as Bob Turner
MOVIE1917
Big Timber
as Jack Fife
MOVIE1912
The Illumination
as Giuseppe's Father
MOVIE1914
The Siren
as Dane Northrop
MOVIE1912
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Basil Underwood
MOVIE1913
Via Cabaret
as Harry Reeder
MOVIE1914
Another Chance
as Detective Flynn
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Too Much Speed
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
MOVIE1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
as Paul Hapgood
MOVIE1912
Jean Intervenes
as Billy Hallock
MOVIE1915
The Three Brothers
as Jean Gaudet / Will
MOVIE1916
The Yellow Pawn
as James Weldon
MOVIE1911
The Reporter
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
MOVIE1914
The Niggard
as Elmer Kent
MOVIE1912
At Cripple Creek
as Joe Mayfield
★9.0
MOVIE1920
What's Your Hurry?
as Dusty Rhoades
★6.0
MOVIE1919
The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
MOVIE1913
The Ways of Fate
as Jim Conway
MOVIE1913
A Foreign Spy
MOVIE1915
The Craven
as Bud Walton
MOVIE1914
At Dawn
as The Lieutenant
MOVIE1912
A Man's Duty
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
MOVIE1914
The Way of a Woman
as Pierre
★8.0
MOVIE1913
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
as Policeman
MOVIE1913
Song Bird of the North
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
MOVIE1913
Pride of Lonesome
as Edward Daton
★9.0
MOVIE1912
Virginius
as Icilius
★8.0
MOVIE1918
His Extra Bit
as The Husband
MOVIE1912
Kaintuck
as The Artist
MOVIE1914
Down by the Sounding Sea
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
★8.0
MOVIE1914
The High Grader
as Dick Raleigh