Acting
Wallace Reid
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.
Filmography
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Film · 1961
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Film · 1942
The Movie Album
Film · 1932
The House That Shadows Built
Film · 1931
Rent Free
Film · 1922
Thirty Days
Film · 1922
Clarence
Film · 1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Film · 1922
Nice People
Film · 1922
The Ghost Breaker
Film · 1922
The World's Champion
Film · 1922
The Dictator
Film · 1922
Night Life in Hollywood
Film · 1922
Across the Continent
Film · 1922
The Affairs of Anatol
Film · 1921
The Charm School
Film · 1921
Too Much Speed
Film · 1921
The Hell Diggers
Film · 1921
The Love Special
Film · 1921
Forever
Film · 1921
Don't Tell Everything
Film · 1921
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
Film · 1921
The Dancin' Fool
Film · 1920
Double Speed
Film · 1920
Excuse My Dust
Film · 1920
What's Your Hurry?
Film · 1920
Always Audacious
Film · 1920
Sick Abed
Film · 1920
The Love Burglar
Film · 1919
The Dub
Film · 1919
Alias Mike Moran
Film · 1919
The Lottery Man
Film · 1919
The Roaring Road
Film · 1919
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Film · 1919
The Valley of the Giants
Film · 1919
You're Fired
Film · 1919
The House of Silence
Film · 1918
Too Many Millions
Film · 1918
The Thing We Love
Film · 1918
The Man from Funeral Range
Film · 1918
Rimrock Jones
Film · 1918
The Firefly of France
Film · 1918
Believe Me, Xantippe
Film · 1918
Less Than Kin
Film · 1918
His Extra Bit
Film · 1918
The Source
Film · 1918
The Prison Without Walls
Film · 1917
The Man Who Saved the Day
Film · 1917
The Golden Fetter
Film · 1917
The Tell-Tale Arm
Film · 1917
The Hostage
Film · 1917
The Squaw Man's Son
Film · 1917
The World Apart
Film · 1917
The Woman God Forgot
Film · 1917
Big Timber
Film · 1917
The Devil Stone
Film · 1917
Nan of Music Mountain
Film · 1917
Joan the Woman
Film · 1916
The Wall of Flame
Film · 1916
The Wrong Heart
Film · 1916
The Yellow Pawn
Film · 1916
To Have and to Hold
Film · 1916
The House with the Golden Windows
Film · 1916
The Selfish Woman
Film · 1916
The Love Mask
Film · 1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Film · 1916
Maria Rosa
Film · 1916
The Lost House
Film · 1915
Station Content
Film · 1915
The Craven
Film · 1915
A Yankee from the West
Film · 1915
The Chorus Lady
Film · 1915
Carmen
Film · 1915
Enoch Arden
Film · 1915
Old Heidelberg
Film · 1915
The Golden Chance
Film · 1915
The Birth of a Nation
Film · 1915
The Three Brothers
Film · 1915
The Heart of the Hills
Film · 1914
The Wheel of Life
Film · 1914
Fires of Conscience
Film · 1914
A Flash in the Dark
Film · 1914
Breed o' the Mountains
Film · 1914
The Greater Devotion
Film · 1914
Regeneration
Film · 1914
The Voice of the Viola
Film · 1914
The Spider and Her Web
Film · 1914
Cupid Incognito
Film · 1914
The Test
Film · 1914
The Way of a Woman
Film · 1914
A Gypsy Romance
Film · 1914
The Mountaineer
Film · 1914
The Skeleton
Film · 1914
The Fruit of Evil
Film · 1914
Women and Roses
Film · 1914
The Daughter of a Crook
Film · 1914
The Quack
Film · 1914
The Siren
Film · 1914
The Man Within
Film · 1914
Passing of the Beast
Film · 1914
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Film · 1914
The Intruder
Film · 1914
The Countess Betty's Mine
Film · 1914
Love's Western Flight
Film · 1914
Moonshine Molly
Film · 1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Film · 1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
Film · 1914
Down by the Sounding Sea
Film · 1914
The City Beautiful
Film · 1914
The Avenging Conscience
Film · 1914
A Wife on a Wager
Film · 1914
The Den of Thieves
Film · 1914
For Her Father's Sins
Film · 1914
Down the Hill to Creditville
Film · 1914
The High Grader
Film · 1914
Her Awakening
Film · 1914
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Film · 1914
Her Doggy
Film · 1914
The Odalisque
Film · 1914
At Dawn
Film · 1914
The Niggard
Film · 1914
Over the Ledge
Film · 1914
Another Chance
Film · 1914
A Mother's Influence
Film · 1914
The Exposure
Film · 1914
The Joke on Yellentown
Film · 1914
Baby's Ride
Film · 1914
Arms and the Gringo
Film · 1914
The Little Country Mouse
Film · 1914
His Mother's Son
Film · 1913
Love and the Law
Film · 1913
Song Bird of the North
Film · 1913
Pirate Gold
Film · 1913
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Film · 1913
The Guerilla Menace
Film · 1913
Their Masterpiece
Film · 1913
A Foreign Spy
Film · 1913
Mental Suicide
Film · 1913
The Powder Flash of Death
Film · 1913
The Picket Guard
Film · 1913
Pride of Lonesome
Film · 1913
The Eye of a God
Film · 1913
A Rose of Old Mexico
Film · 1913
The Ways of Fate
Film · 1913
When Jim Returned
Film · 1913
Near To Earth
Film · 1913
The Tattooed Arm
Film · 1913
The Brothers
Film · 1913
Youth and Jealousy
Film · 1913
The Kiss
Film · 1913
On the Border
Film · 1913
Her Innocent Marriage
Film · 1913
A Modern Snare
Film · 1913
When Luck Changes
Film · 1913
In Love and War
Film · 1913
Via Cabaret
Film · 1913
Women and War
Film · 1913
Hearts and Horses
Film · 1913
Man's Duty
Film · 1913
An Even Exchange
Film · 1913
The Harvest of Flame
Film · 1913
The Animal
Film · 1913
The Spark of Manhood
Film · 1913
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Film · 1913
The Gratitude of Wanda
Film · 1913
The Cracksman's Reformation
Film · 1913
The Wall of Money
Film · 1913
The Heart of a Cracksman
Film · 1913
Cross Purposes
Film · 1913
The Fires of Fate
Film · 1913
Retribution
Film · 1913
The Lightning Bolt
Film · 1913
A Hopi Legend
Film · 1913
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Film · 1913
The Deerslayer
Film · 1913
The Spirit of the Flag
Film · 1913
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Film · 1913
The Indian Raiders
Film · 1912
His Only Son
Film · 1912
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Film · 1912
The Telephone Girl
Film · 1912
At Scrogginses' Corner
Film · 1912
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
Film · 1912
The Path of True Love
Film · 1912
Jean Intervenes
Film · 1912
Playmates
Film · 1912
Chumps
Film · 1912
The Victoria Cross
Film · 1912
The Seventh Son
Film · 1912
The Illumination
Film · 1912
Brothers
Film · 1912
Fortunes of a Composer
Film · 1912
The Hieroglyphic
Film · 1912
Early Days in the West
Film · 1912
Before the White Man Came
Film · 1912
Virginius
Film · 1912
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Film · 1912
Kaintuck
Film · 1912
A Man's Duty
Film · 1912
The Secret Service Man
Film · 1912
Making Good
Film · 1912
At Cripple Creek
Film · 1912
The Gamblers
Film · 1912
Hunted Down
Film · 1912
The Tribal Law
Film · 1912
The Seepore Rebellion
Film · 1912
A Daughter of the Redskins
Film · 1912
The Cowboy Guardians
Film · 1912
An Indian Outcast
Film · 1912
The Hidden Treasure
Film · 1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
Film · 1912
Every Inch a Man
Film · 1912
The Leading Lady
Film · 1911
The Mother of the Ranch
Film · 1911
The Reporter
Film · 1911
War
Film · 1911
The Phoenix
Film · 1910