Wallace Reid
212 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 14, 1891
- Died
- Jan 18, 1923 (age 31)
- Place of birth
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 5.9 The Birth of a Nation
1915 · Film
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★ 7.1 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Film
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★ 5.9 The Avenging Conscience
1914 · Film
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★ 5.7 Joan the Woman
1916 · Film
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★ 6.1 Carmen
1915 · Film
- ★ 9.5
War
1911 · Film
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★ 5.9 The Affairs of Anatol
1921 · Film
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★ 6.1 The Roaring Road
1919 · Film
Wallace Reid: movies and TV shows
Acting (212)
- 1932 The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
- 1931 The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
- 1922 Thirty Days
as John Floyd
- 1922 Clarence
as Clarence Smith
- 1922 The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
- 1922 Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
- 1922 The Dictator
as Brooke Travers
- 1922 Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
- 1922 The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
- 1922 Rent Free
as Buell Arnister Jr
- 1921 Don't Tell Everything
as Cullen Dale
- 1921 Forever
as Peter Ibbetson
- 1921 The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
- 1921 The Hell Diggers
as Teddy Darman
- 1921 Too Much Speed
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
- 1921 The Love Special
as Jim Glover
- 1921 The Charm School
as Austin Bevans
- 1920 Always Audacious
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
- 1920 What's Your Hurry?
as Dusty Rhoades
- 1920 Sick Abed
as Reginald Jay
- 1920 The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
- 1920 Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
- 1920 Double Speed
as 'Speed' Carr
- 1919 Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
- 1919 The Lottery Man
as Jack Wright
- 1919 The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
- 1919 The Love Burglar
as David Strong
- 1919 You're Fired
as Billy Deering
- 1919 The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
- 1919 Alias Mike Moran
as Larry Young
- 1919 The Dub
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
- 1918 Too Many Millions
as Walsingham Van Doren
- 1918 The Man from Funeral Range
as Harry Webb
- 1918 His Extra Bit
as The Husband
- 1918 The Source
as Van Twiller Yard
- 1918 Less Than Kin
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
- 1918 The Firefly of France
as Devereux Bayne
- 1918 Believe Me, Xantippe
as George MacFarland
- 1918 The House of Silence
as Marcel Levington
- 1918 The Thing We Love
as Rodney Sheridan
- 1918 Rimrock Jones
as Rimrock Jones
- 1917 The Devil Stone
as Guy Sterling
- 1917 Nan of Music Mountain
as Henry de Spain
- 1917 The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
- 1917 The Hostage
as Lieutenant Kemper
- 1917 The Squaw Man's Son
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
- 1917 Big Timber
as Jack Fife
- 1917 The World Apart
as Bob Fulton
- 1917
- 1917 The Prison Without Walls
as Huntington Babbs
- 1917 The Man Who Saved the Day
as John King
- 1917 The Golden Fetter
as James Roger Ralston
- 1916 Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
- 1916
- 1916 The Wall of Flame
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
- 1916 The Yellow Pawn
as James Weldon
- 1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
- 1916 The House with the Golden Windows
as Tom Wells
- 1916 The Selfish Woman
as Tom Morley
- 1916 Maria Rosa
as Andreas
- 1916 The Love Mask
as Dan Derring
- 1916 To Have and to Hold
as Captain Ralph Percy
- 1915 The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
- 1915 Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
- 1915 Carmen
as Don Jose
- 1915 The Chorus Lady
as Danny Mallory
- 1915 A Yankee from the West
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
- 1915 Station Content
as Jim Manning
- 1915 Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
- 1915 The Lost House
as Ford
- 1915 The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
- 1915 The Craven
as Bud Walton
- 1915 The Three Brothers
as Jean Gaudet / Will
- 1914 Baby's Ride
as Father
- 1914 The Exposure
as The Reporter
- 1914
- 1914 At Dawn
as The Lieutenant
- 1914 Over the Ledge
as Bob
- 1914 Another Chance
as Detective Flynn
- 1914 The Little Country Mouse
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
- 1914 The Odalisque
as Curtiss
- 1914 The Niggard
as Elmer Kent
- 1914 A Mother's Influence
as Wallace Burton - the Son
- 1914 For Her Father's Sins
as Frank Bell
- 1914 Her Doggy
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
- 1914 Her Awakening
as Bob Turner
- 1914 Down the Hill to Creditville
as Marcus Down
- 1914 The High Grader
as Dick Raleigh
- 1914 Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
- 1914 The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Samuel Roebuck
- 1914 Moonshine Molly
as Lawson Keene
- 1914 The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
- 1914 Down by the Sounding Sea
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
- 1914 The City Beautiful
as The Country Boy
- 1914 Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
- 1914 The Den of Thieves
as Wallace
- 1914 'Cross the Mexican Line
as Lt. Wallace
- 1914 A Wife on a Wager
as Wally Bristow
- 1914 Love's Western Flight
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
- 1914 Passing of the Beast
as Jacques - the Woodsman
- 1914 The Man Within
as The Outlaw
- 1914 The Siren
as Dane Northrop
- 1914 The Quack
as Wallace Rosslyn
- 1914 Women and Roses
as Wallace
- 1914 The Daughter of a Crook
as Neal
- 1914
- 1914 The Skeleton
as Jack - the Young Husband
- 1914 The Test
as The Poor Man
- 1914 A Gypsy Romance
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
- 1914 Cupid Incognito
as Jack Falkner
- 1914
- 1914 The Way of a Woman
as Pierre
- 1914 The Mountaineer
as Jim - the Mountaineer
- 1914 The Heart of the Hills
as Dave - the Woodsman
- 1914 The Voice of the Viola
as Wallace
- 1914 Regeneration
as The Artist
- 1914 Breed o' the Mountains
as Joe Mayfield
- 1914 A Flash in the Dark
as A Miner
- 1914 The Greater Devotion
as 'Devotion'
- 1914 Fires of Conscience
as Ray - the Prospector
- 1914 The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector
- 1914 The Countess Betty's Mine
as Wallace
- 1914 The Intruder
as The Woodsman
- 1914 Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Wally
- 1913
- 1913 The Lightning Bolt
as Reid
- 1913 A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Gentleman Crook
- 1913 Retribution
as Reid
- 1913 Cross Purposes
as Wally
- 1913 The Fires of Fate
as Wally - the Doctor
- 1913 The Cracksman's Reformation
as Gentleman Crook
- 1913 The Heart of a Cracksman
as Gentleman Crook
- 1913 The Wall of Money
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
- 1913 The Gratitude of Wanda
as Wally
- 1913 The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
- 1913 The Spark of Manhood
as Humphrey Van Weyden
- 1913 The Harvest of Flame
as The Inspector
- 1913 The Animal
as The Animal
- 1913 An Even Exchange
as Joe
- 1913 Man's Duty
as Bill, the Selfish One
- 1913 Mental Suicide
as Reid - a Contractor
- 1913 The Picket Guard
as Sentry
- 1913
- 1913 The Powder Flash of Death
as Captain Bruce Douglas
- 1913 Pride of Lonesome
as Edward Daton
- 1913 Song Bird of the North
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
- 1913 Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
as Policeman
- 1913 The Guerilla Menace
as Captain Bruce Douglas
- 1913 Women and War
as The Boy
- 1913 In Love and War
as David - the Journalist
- 1913 Hearts and Horses
as Bill Walters
- 1913 Via Cabaret
as Harry Reeder
- 1913 The Spirit of the Flag
as Dr. Reid
- 1913 When Luck Changes
as Cal Jim
- 1913
- 1913 On the Border
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
- 1913 Her Innocent Marriage
as Will Wayne
- 1913 A Modern Snare
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
- 1913 The Kiss
as Ralph Walters
- 1913 Youth and Jealousy
as Ben
- 1913 The Deerslayer
as Chingachgook
- 1913 The Brothers
as Robert Gregory
- 1913 The Tattooed Arm
as Ben Hart
- 1913 When Jim Returned
as Jim
- 1913 The Ways of Fate
as Jim Conway
- 1913 The Eye of a God
as Frank Hammond
- 1913
- 1913 A Rose of Old Mexico
as Paul Hapgood
- 1913
- 1913 Their Masterpiece
as Jack Sanders
- 1913 Love and the Law
as Sheriff John Allen
- 1913 The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
- 1912 The Hidden Treasure
as Bill Binks
- 1912 An Indian Outcast
as Wally, a Cowboy
- 1912 The Tribal Law
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
- 1912
- 1912 A Daughter of the Redskins
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
- 1912 Hunted Down
as John Dayton
- 1912 Early Days in the West
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
- 1912 Every Inch a Man
as Robert Chapman - the Son
- 1912 His Only Son
as Bob Madden
- 1912 The Indian Raiders
as Tom
- 1912 The Secret Service Man
as The Secret Service Man
- 1912 Making Good
as Billy Burns
- 1912 At Cripple Creek
as Joe Mayfield
- 1912 A Man's Duty
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
- 1912 Before the White Man Came
as Wathuma - the Leopard
- 1912 The Gamblers
as Arthur Ingraham
- 1912 Virginius
as Icilius
- 1912 Kaintuck
as The Artist
- 1912 Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Basil Underwood
- 1912 Diamond Cut Diamond
as Clerk
- 1912 Fortunes of a Composer
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
- 1912
- 1912 The Victoria Cross
as Lt. Cholmodeley
- 1912
- 1912
- 1912 The Illumination
as Giuseppe's Father
- 1912 The Seventh Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers
- 1912 The Telephone Girl
as Jack Watson
+ 12 more credits
Behind the camera (64)
- 1917 The Man Who Saved the Day
Director
- 1916 The Wrong Heart
Director, Scenario Writer
- 1914 Down by the Sounding Sea
Scenario Writer
- 1914 The Den of Thieves
Director
- 1914 'Cross the Mexican Line
Director
- 1914 A Wife on a Wager
Director
- 1914 Love's Western Flight
Director
- 1914 Passing of the Beast
Director
- 1914 The Man Within
Director
- 1914 The Siren
Director
- 1914 The Quack
Director
- 1914 Women and Roses
Writer, Director
- 1914 The Fruit of Evil
Director, Writer
- 1914 The Skeleton
Director
- 1914 The Test
Director
- 1914 A Gypsy Romance
Director
- 1914 Cupid Incognito
Writer, Director
- 1914 The Way of a Woman
Director
- 1914 The Mountaineer
Director, Writer
- 1914 The Heart of the Hills
Writer, Director
- 1914 The Voice of the Viola
Director
- 1914 Regeneration
Director
- 1914 Breed o' the Mountains
Director
- 1914 A Flash in the Dark
Director
- 1914 The Greater Devotion
Director
- 1914 Fires of Conscience
Director
- 1914 The Wheel of Life
Director
- 1914 The Countess Betty's Mine
Director
- 1914 The Intruder
Director
- 1913 A Hopi Legend
Writer, Director
- 1913 The Lightning Bolt
Director, Writer
- 1913 A Cracksman Santa Claus
Writer
- 1913 Retribution
Director
- 1913 Cross Purposes
Director
- 1913 The Fires of Fate
Director, Scenario Writer
- 1913 The Cracksman's Reformation
Writer
- 1913 The Heart of a Cracksman
Director, Writer
- 1913 The Gratitude of Wanda
Director
- 1913 The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Director
- 1913 The Spark of Manhood
Director
- 1913 The Harvest of Flame
Director, Writer
- 1913 Mental Suicide
Writer
- 1913 A Foreign Spy
Director
- 1913 Pride of Lonesome
Director
- 1913 Women and War
Writer
- 1913 Hearts and Horses
Director
- 1913 Via Cabaret
Director
- 1913 The Spirit of the Flag
Writer
- 1913 When Luck Changes
Director
- 1913 On the Border
Director
- 1913 Her Innocent Marriage
Director
- 1913 A Modern Snare
Director
- 1913 The Kiss
Director
- 1913 Youth and Jealousy
Director
- 1913 The Brothers
Director
- 1913 The Tattooed Arm
Writer, Director
- 1913 When Jim Returned
Writer, Director
- 1913 The Ways of Fate
Director
- 1913 A Rose of Old Mexico
Director
- 1913 Love and the Law
Director, Scenario Writer
- 1912 The Hidden Treasure
Director
- 1912 The Tribal Law
Director, Writer
- 1912 Before the White Man Came
Writer
- 1912 Chumps
Scenario Writer
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 1961
- 1942
- 1922
- 1922
- 1921