Acting · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA · Born April 14, 1891
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.
MovieThe Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
MovieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Movie Album
1932
as (archive footage)
MovieThe House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
MovieThirty Days
1922
as John Floyd
MovieNight Life in Hollywood
1922
as Self
MovieClarence
1922
as Clarence Smith
MovieThe Ghost Breaker
1922
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
MovieNice People
1922
as Captain Billy Wade
MovieA Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
MovieThe Dictator
1922
as Brooke Travers
MovieAcross the Continent
1922
as Jimmy Dent
MovieThe World's Champion
1922
as William Burroughs
MovieRent Free
1922
as Buell Arnister Jr
MovieDon't Tell Everything
1921
as Cullen Dale
MovieForever
1921
as Peter Ibbetson
MovieThe Affairs of Anatol
1921
as Anatol Spencer
MovieThe Hell Diggers
1921
as Teddy Darman
MovieToo Much Speed
1921
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
MovieThe Love Special
1921
as Jim Glover
MovieThe Charm School
1921
as Austin Bevans
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
1921
as As himself
MovieAlways Audacious
1920
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
MovieWhat's Your Hurry?
1920
as Dusty Rhoades
MovieSick Abed
1920
as Reginald Jay
MovieThe Dancin' Fool
1920
as Sylvester Tibble
MovieExcuse My Dust
1920
as 'Toodles' Walden
MovieDouble Speed
1920
as 'Speed' Carr
MovieHawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
MovieThe Lottery Man
1919
as Jack Wright
MovieThe Valley of the Giants
1919
as Bryce Cardigan
MovieThe Love Burglar
1919
as David Strong
MovieYou're Fired
1919
as Billy Deering
MovieThe Roaring Road
1919
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
MovieAlias Mike Moran
1919
as Larry Young
MovieThe Dub
1919
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
MovieToo Many Millions
1918
as Walsingham Van Doren
MovieThe Man from Funeral Range
1918
as Harry Webb
His Extra Bit
1918
as The Husband
MovieThe Source
1918
as Van Twiller Yard
MovieLess Than Kin
1918
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
MovieThe Firefly of France
1918
as Devereux Bayne
MovieBelieve Me, Xantippe
1918
as George MacFarland
MovieThe House of Silence
1918
as Marcel Levington
MovieThe Thing We Love
1918
as Rodney Sheridan
MovieRimrock Jones
1918
as Rimrock Jones
MovieThe Devil Stone
1917
as Guy Sterling
MovieNan of Music Mountain
1917
as Henry de Spain
MovieThe Woman God Forgot
1917
as Alvarado
MovieThe Hostage
1917
as Lieutenant Kemper
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
MovieBig Timber
1917
as Jack Fife
MovieThe World Apart
1917
as Bob Fulton
The Tell-Tale Arm
1917
MovieThe Prison Without Walls
1917
as Huntington Babbs
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
as John King
MovieThe Golden Fetter
1917
as James Roger Ralston
MovieJoan the Woman
1916
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
The Wrong Heart
1916
The Wall of Flame
1916
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
MovieThe Yellow Pawn
1916
as James Weldon
MovieIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
MovieThe House with the Golden Windows
1916
as Tom Wells
MovieThe Selfish Woman
1916
as Tom Morley
MovieMaria Rosa
1916
as Andreas
MovieThe Love Mask
1916
as Dan Derring
MovieTo Have and to Hold
1916
as Captain Ralph Percy
MovieThe Golden Chance
1915
as Roger Manning
MovieOld Heidelberg
1915
as Prince Karl Heinrich
MovieCarmen
1915
as Don Jose
MovieThe Chorus Lady
1915
as Danny Mallory
A Yankee from the West
1915
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
MovieStation Content
1915
as Jim Manning
MovieEnoch Arden
1915
as Walter Fenn
MovieThe Lost House
1915
as Ford
MovieThe Birth of a Nation
1915
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Craven
1915
as Bud Walton
MovieThe Three Brothers
1915
as Jean Gaudet / Will
Baby's Ride
1914
as Father
The Exposure
1914
as The Reporter
The Joke on Yellentown
1914
MovieAt Dawn
1914
as The Lieutenant
Over the Ledge
1914
as Bob
Another Chance
1914
as Detective Flynn
MovieThe Little Country Mouse
1914
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
The Odalisque
1914
as Curtiss
The Niggard
1914
as Elmer Kent
A Mother's Influence
1914
as Wallace Burton - the Son
For Her Father's Sins
1914
as Frank Bell
Her Doggy
1914
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
Her Awakening
1914
as Bob Turner
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914
as Marcus Down
The High Grader
1914
as Dick Raleigh
Sierra Jim's Reformation
1914
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Samuel Roebuck
MovieThe Avenging Conscience
1914
as The Doctor (uncredited)
Moonshine Molly
1914
as Lawson Keene
Down by the Sounding Sea
1914
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
The City Beautiful
1914
as The Country Boy
MovieArms and the Gringo
1914
as Sullivan
MovieThe Den of Thieves
1914
as Wallace
Movie'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
as Lt. Wallace
A Wife on a Wager
1914
as Wally Bristow
Love's Western Flight
1914
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
Passing of the Beast
1914
as Jacques - the Woodsman
The Man Within
1914
as The Outlaw
The Siren
1914
as Dane Northrop
The Quack
1914
as Wallace Rosslyn
Women and Roses
1914
as Wallace
The Daughter of a Crook
1914
as Neal
The Fruit of Evil
1914
The Skeleton
1914
as Jack - the Young Husband
The Test
1914
as The Poor Man
A Gypsy Romance
1914
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
Cupid Incognito
1914
as Jack Falkner
MovieThe Spider and Her Web
1914
The Way of a Woman
1914
as Pierre
The Mountaineer
1914
as Jim - the Mountaineer
MovieThe Heart of the Hills
1914
as Dave - the Woodsman
The Voice of the Viola
1914
as Wallace
Regeneration
1914
as The Artist
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
as Joe Mayfield
A Flash in the Dark
1914
as A Miner
The Greater Devotion
1914
as 'Devotion'
Fires of Conscience
1914
as Ray - the Prospector
The Wheel of Life
1914
as The Prospector
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
as Wallace
The Intruder
1914
as The Woodsman
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
1914
as Wally
A Hopi Legend
1913
The Lightning Bolt
1913
as Reid
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
as Gentleman Crook
Retribution
1913
as Reid
Cross Purposes
1913
as Wally
The Fires of Fate
1913
as Wally - the Doctor
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
as Gentleman Crook
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
as Gentleman Crook
The Wall of Money
1913
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
as Wally
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Spark of Manhood
1913
as Humphrey Van Weyden
The Harvest of Flame
1913
as The Inspector
The Animal
1913
as The Animal
An Even Exchange
1913
as Joe
Man's Duty
1913
as Bill, the Selfish One
Mental Suicide
1913
as Reid - a Contractor
The Picket Guard
1913
as Sentry
A Foreign Spy
1913
MovieThe Powder Flash of Death
1913
as Captain Bruce Douglas
Pride of Lonesome
1913
as Edward Daton
Song Bird of the North
1913
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
1913
as Policeman
The Guerilla Menace
1913
as Captain Bruce Douglas
Women and War
1913
as The Boy
In Love and War
1913
as David - the Journalist
Hearts and Horses
1913
as Bill Walters
Via Cabaret
1913
as Harry Reeder
MovieThe Spirit of the Flag
1913
as Dr. Reid
When Luck Changes
1913
as Cal Jim
His Mother's Son
1913
On the Border
1913
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
Her Innocent Marriage
1913
as Will Wayne
A Modern Snare
1913
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
The Kiss
1913
as Ralph Walters
Youth and Jealousy
1913
as Ben
MovieThe Deerslayer
1913
as Chingachgook
The Brothers
1913
as Robert Gregory
The Tattooed Arm
1913
as Ben Hart
When Jim Returned
1913
as Jim
The Ways of Fate
1913
as Jim Conway
The Eye of a God
1913
as Frank Hammond
MovieNear To Earth
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
as Paul Hapgood
Their Masterpiece
1913
as Jack Sanders
Pirate Gold
1913
Love and the Law
1913
as Sheriff John Allen
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
as Dorian Gray
The Hidden Treasure
1912
as Bill Binks
An Indian Outcast
1912
as Wally, a Cowboy
The Tribal Law
1912
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
The Cowboy Guardians
1912
A Daughter of the Redskins
1912
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
Hunted Down
1912
as John Dayton
Early Days in the West
1912
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
Every Inch a Man
1912
as Robert Chapman - the Son
MovieHis Only Son
1912
as Bob Madden
The Indian Raiders
1912
as Tom
The Secret Service Man
1912
as The Secret Service Man
Making Good
1912
as Billy Burns
MovieAt Cripple Creek
1912
as Joe Mayfield
A Man's Duty
1912
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
Before the White Man Came
1912
as Wathuma - the Leopard
The Gamblers
1912
as Arthur Ingraham
Virginius
1912
as Icilius
Kaintuck
1912
as The Artist
MovieCurfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912
as Basil Underwood
MovieDiamond Cut Diamond
1912
as Clerk
Fortunes of a Composer
1912
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
The Hieroglyphic
1912
MovieThe Victoria Cross
1912
as Lt. Cholmodeley
Brothers
1912
At Scrogginses' Corner
1912
MovieThe Illumination
1912
as Giuseppe's Father
MovieThe Seventh Son
1912
as One of the Beecham Brothers
The Telephone Girl
1912
as Jack Watson
MoviePlaymates
1912
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
MovieIndian Romeo and Juliet
1912
as Oniatore / Romeo
Jean Intervenes
1912
as Billy Hallock
MovieChumps
1912
as George - the Denouement
The Path of True Love
1912
as The Country Boy
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
1912
The Seepore Rebellion
1912
as Extra
War
1911
as Midas
MovieThe Mother of the Ranch
1911
as The Mother's Friend Back East
The Reporter
1911
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
The Leading Lady
1911
The Phoenix
1910
as Young Reporter
