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