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