
Acting
Born April 14, 1891 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
The Man Who Saved the Day
1917
The Wrong Heart
1916

The Den of Thieves
1914

'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
A Wife on a Wager
1914
Love's Western Flight
1914
Passing of the Beast
1914
The Man Within
1914
The Siren
1914
The Quack
1914
Women and Roses
1914
The Fruit of Evil
1914
The Skeleton
1914
The Test
1914
A Gypsy Romance
1914
Cupid Incognito
1914
The Way of a Woman
1914
The Mountaineer
1914

The Heart of the Hills
1914
The Voice of the Viola
1914
Regeneration
1914
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
A Flash in the Dark
1914
The Greater Devotion
1914
Fires of Conscience
1914
The Wheel of Life
1914
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
The Intruder
1914
A Hopi Legend
1913
The Lightning Bolt
1913
Retribution
1913
Cross Purposes
1913
The Fires of Fate
1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
1913
The Spark of Manhood
1913
The Harvest of Flame
1913
A Foreign Spy
1913
Pride of Lonesome
1913
Hearts and Horses
1913
Via Cabaret
1913
When Luck Changes
1913
On the Border
1913
Her Innocent Marriage
1913
A Modern Snare
1913
The Kiss
1913
Youth and Jealousy
1913
The Brothers
1913
The Tattooed Arm
1913
When Jim Returned
1913
The Ways of Fate
1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
1913
Love and the Law
1913
The Hidden Treasure
1912
The Tribal Law
1912

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942

The House That Shadows Built
1931

Thirty Days
1922

Night Life in Hollywood
1922

Clarence
1922

The Ghost Breaker
1922

Nice People
1922

A Trip to Paramountown
1922

The Dictator
1922

Across the Continent
1922

The World's Champion
1922

Rent Free
1922

Don't Tell Everything
1921

Forever
1921

The Affairs of Anatol
1921

The Hell Diggers
1921

Too Much Speed
1921

The Love Special
1921

The Charm School
1921

Always Audacious
1920

What's Your Hurry?
1920

Sick Abed
1920

The Dancin' Fool
1920

Excuse My Dust
1920

Double Speed
1920

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919

The Lottery Man
1919

The Valley of the Giants
1919