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