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.
1961
as Self (archive footage)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
1931
as (archive footage)
1922
as John Floyd
1922
as Self
1922
as Clarence Smith
1922
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
1922
as Captain Billy Wade
1922
as Self
1922
as Brooke Travers
1922
as Jimmy Dent
1922
as William Burroughs
1922
as Buell Arnister Jr
1921
as Cullen Dale
1921
as Peter Ibbetson
1921
as Anatol Spencer
1921
as Teddy Darman
1921
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
1921
as Jim Glover
1921
as Austin Bevans
1920
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
1920
as Dusty Rhoades
1920
as Reginald Jay
1920
as Sylvester Tibble
1920
as 'Toodles' Walden
1920
as 'Speed' Carr
1919
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
1919
as Jack Wright
1919
as Bryce Cardigan
1919
as David Strong
1919
as Billy Deering
1919
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
1919
as Larry Young
1919
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
1918
as Walsingham Van Doren
1918
as Harry Webb
1918
as The Husband
1918
as Van Twiller Yard
1918
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
1918
as Devereux Bayne
1918
as George MacFarland
1918
as Marcel Levington
1918
as Rodney Sheridan
1918
as Rimrock Jones
1917
as Guy Sterling
1917
as Henry de Spain
1917
as Alvarado
1917
as Lieutenant Kemper
1917
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
1917
as Jack Fife
1917
as Bob Fulton
1917
1917
as Huntington Babbs
1917
as John King
1917
as James Roger Ralston
1916
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
1916
1916
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
1916
as James Weldon
1916
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
1916
as Tom Wells
1916
as Tom Morley
1916
as Andreas
1916
as Dan Derring
1916
as Captain Ralph Percy
1915
as Roger Manning
1915
as Prince Karl Heinrich
1915
as Don Jose
1915
as Danny Mallory
1915
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
1915
as Jim Manning
1915
as Walter Fenn
1915
as Ford
1915
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
1915
as Bud Walton
1915
as Jean Gaudet / Will
1914
as Father
1914
as The Reporter
1914
1914
as The Lieutenant
1914
as Bob
1914
as Detective Flynn
1914
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
1914
as Curtiss
1914
as Elmer Kent
1914
as Wallace Burton - the Son
1914
as Frank Bell
1914
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
1914
as Bob Turner
1914
as Marcus Down
1914
as Dick Raleigh
1914
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
1914
as Samuel Roebuck
1914
as The Doctor (uncredited)
1914
as Lawson Keene
1914
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
1914
as The Country Boy
1914
as Sullivan
1914
as Wallace
1914
as Lt. Wallace
1914
as Wally Bristow
1914
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
1914
as Jacques - the Woodsman
1914
as The Outlaw
1914
as Dane Northrop
1914
as Wallace Rosslyn
1914
as Wallace
1914
as Neal
1914
1914
as Jack - the Young Husband
1914
as The Poor Man
1914
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
1914
as Jack Falkner
1914
1914
as Pierre
1914
as Jim - the Mountaineer
1914
as Dave - the Woodsman
1914
as Wallace
1914
as The Artist
1914
as Joe Mayfield
1914
as A Miner
1914
as 'Devotion'
1914
as Ray - the Prospector
1914
as The Prospector
1914
as Wallace
1914
as The Woodsman
1914
as Wally
1913
1913
as Reid
1913
as Gentleman Crook
1913
as Reid
1913
as Wally
1913
as Wally - the Doctor
1913
as Gentleman Crook
1913
as Gentleman Crook
1913
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
1913
as Wally
1913
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
1913
1913
as The Inspector
1913
as The Animal
1913
as Joe
1913
as Bill, the Selfish One
1913
as Reid - a Contractor
1913
as Sentry
1913
1913
as Captain Bruce Douglas
1913
as Edward Daton
1913
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
1913
as Policeman
1913
as Captain Bruce Douglas
1913
as The Boy
1913
as David - the Journalist
1913
as Bill Walters
1913
as Harry Reeder
1913
as Dr. Reid
1913
as Cal Jim
1913
1913
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
1913
as Will Wayne
1913
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
1913
as Ralph Walters
1913
as Ben
1913
as Chingachgook
1913
as Robert Gregory
1913
as Ben Hart
1913
as Jim
1913
as Jim Conway
1913
as Frank Hammond
1913
1913
as Paul Hapgood
1913
as Jack Sanders
1913
1913
as Sheriff John Allen
1913
as Dorian Gray
1912
as Bill Binks
1912
as Wally, a Cowboy
1912
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
1912
1912
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
1912
as John Dayton
1912
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
1912
as Robert Chapman - the Son
1912
as Bob Madden
1912
as Tom
1912
as The Secret Service Man
1912
as Billy Burns
1912
as Joe Mayfield
1912
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
1912
as Wathuma - the Leopard
1912
as Arthur Ingraham
1912
as Icilius
1912
as The Artist
1912
as Basil Underwood
1912
as Clerk
1912
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
1912
1912
as Lt. Cholmodeley
1912
1912
1912
as Giuseppe's Father
1912
as One of the Beecham Brothers
1912
as Jack Watson
1912
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
1912
as Oniatore / Romeo
1912
as Billy Hallock
1912
as George - the Denouement
1912
as The Country Boy
1912
1912
as Extra
1911
as Midas
1911
as The Mother's Friend Back East
1911
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
1911
1910
as Young Reporter