Wallace 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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-04-14
Place of birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Cast
Joan the Woman
1916
5.60
Rent Free
1922
0.00
The Love Burglar
1919
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The Dancin' Fool
1920
0.00
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
5.60
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
0.00
The Leading Lady
1911
0.00
The Phoenix
1910
0.00
The Indian Raiders
1912
0.00
The Reporter
1911
0.00
His Only Son
1912
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War
1911
9.50
The Mother of the Ranch
1911
0.00
The Seventh Son
1912
0.00
Chumps
1912
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The Path of True Love
1912
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Jean Intervenes
1912
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Playmates
1912
4.00
Indian Romeo and Juliet
1912
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The Illumination
1912
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Brothers
1912
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The Victoria Cross
1912
5.00
At Scrogginses' Corner
1912
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The Telephone Girl
1912
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The Hieroglyphic
1912
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Fortunes of a Composer
1912
4.00
Early Days in the West
1912
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Virginius
1912
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Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
1912
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Kaintuck
1912
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His Mother's Son
1913
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At Cripple Creek
1912
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Before the White Man Came
1912
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The Gamblers
1912
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A Man's Duty
1912
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The Secret Service Man
1912
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Making Good
1912
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Hunted Down
1912
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The Hidden Treasure
1912
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A Daughter of the Redskins
1912
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The Seepore Rebellion
1912
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Love and the Law
1913
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The Cowboy Guardians
1912
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The Tribal Law
1912
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An Indian Outcast
1912
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The Guerilla Menace
1913
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Song Bird of the North
1913
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Their Masterpiece
1913
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Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
1913
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Pirate Gold
1913
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Pride of Lonesome
1913
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The Powder Flash of Death
1913
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The Picket Guard
1913
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A Foreign Spy
1913
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Mental Suicide
1913
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A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
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The Eye of a God
1913
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When Jim Returned
1913
5.00
Near To Earth
1913
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The Tattooed Arm
1913
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The Ways of Fate
1913
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The Brothers
1913
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The Kiss
1913
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The Heart of the Hills
1914
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Youth and Jealousy
1913
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The House of Silence
1918
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The Dub
1919
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Too Many Millions
1918
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The Wheel of Life
1914
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A Flash in the Dark
1914
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The Thing We Love
1918
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Thirty Days
1922
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The Greater Devotion
1914
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Fires of Conscience
1914
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Breed o' the Mountains
1914
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The Man from Funeral Range
1918
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Regeneration
1914
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Her Innocent Marriage
1913
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A Modern Snare
1913
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On the Border
1913
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Cupid Incognito
1914
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The Test
1914
5.00
The Spider and Her Web
1914
0.00
The Mountaineer
1914
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The Voice of the Viola
1914
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The Way of a Woman
1914
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A Gypsy Romance
1914
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The Skeleton
1914
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When Luck Changes
1913
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In Love and War
1913
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Via Cabaret
1913
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Hearts and Horses
1913
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Women and War
1913
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The Fruit of Evil
1914
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The Quack
1914
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The Daughter of a Crook
1914
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Women and Roses
1914
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The Siren
1914
0.00
Man's Duty
1913
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Passing of the Beast
1914
0.00
The Man Within
1914
0.00
An Even Exchange
1913
0.00
The Harvest of Flame
1913
0.00
The Animal
1913
0.00
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
0.00
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
0.00
The Spark of Manhood
1913
0.00
The Wall of Money
1913
0.00
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
0.00
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
0.00
Cross Purposes
1913
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The Fires of Fate
1913
0.00
Retribution
1913
0.00
A Hopi Legend
1913
0.00
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
0.00
The Lightning Bolt
1913
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The Intruder
1914
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Whoso Diggeth a Pit
1914
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The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
0.00
Love's Western Flight
1914
0.00
The Lost House
1915
0.00
Station Content
1915
0.00
The Craven
1915
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A Yankee from the West
1915
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The Chorus Lady
1915
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Down by the Sounding Sea
1914
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The Wall of Flame
1916
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The Yellow Pawn
1916
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The Wrong Heart
1916
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'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
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A Wife on a Wager
1914
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The Den of Thieves
1914
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The City Beautiful
1914
0.00
For Her Father's Sins
1914
0.00
Sierra Jim's Reformation
1914
0.00
Her Doggy
1914
0.00
Her Awakening
1914
0.00
The Avenging Conscience
1914
6.10
Moonshine Molly
1914
0.00
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
0.00
The High Grader
1914
0.00
The Niggard
1914
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The Odalisque
1914
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Over the Ledge
1914
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Another Chance
1914
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A Mother's Influence
1914
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At Dawn
1914
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The Exposure
1914
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The Joke on Yellentown
1914
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The Love Mask
1916
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To Have and to Hold
1916
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The Selfish Woman
1916
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The Golden Fetter
1917
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The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
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The Tell-Tale Arm
1917
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The Prison Without Walls
1917
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The World Apart
1917
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Rimrock Jones
1918
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The Squaw Man's Son
1917
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The Hostage
1917
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The Firefly of France
1918
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Believe Me, Xantippe
1918
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The Source
1918
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Less Than Kin
1918
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His Extra Bit
1918
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The Lottery Man
1919
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Alias Mike Moran
1919
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Double Speed
1920
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Too Much Speed
1921
0.00
The Charm School
1921
0.00
Clarence
1922
0.00
The Hell Diggers
1921
5.00
Baby's Ride
1914
0.00
Carmen
1915
6.10
Enoch Arden
1915
6.30
The Woman God Forgot
1917
5.81
The Roaring Road
1919
5.80
Excuse My Dust
1920
5.70
Arms and the Gringo
1914
0.00
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
7.30
Nice People
1922
0.00
Big Timber
1917
0.00
Old Heidelberg
1915
4.00
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919
6.20
The Golden Chance
1915
6.50
Diamond Cut Diamond
1912
6.00
Every Inch a Man
1912
0.00
The Deerslayer
1913
6.20
The Birth of a Nation
1915
6.00
The Ghost Breaker
1922
0.00
The Love Special
1921
0.00
The World's Champion
1922
0.00
The Spirit of the Flag
1913
5.00
Maria Rosa
1916
0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
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Forever
1921
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The Valley of the Giants
1919
5.50
What's Your Hurry?
1920
0.00
The House That Shadows Built
1931
7.00
The Three Brothers
1915
0.00
The Little Country Mouse
1914
5.00
Always Audacious
1920
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Sick Abed
1920
0.00
You're Fired
1919
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The Dictator
1922
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The Devil Stone
1917
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Night Life in Hollywood
1922
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Don't Tell Everything
1921
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Nan of Music Mountain
1917
0.00
Across the Continent
1922
0.00