Birth Day: 1891-04-14
Place of birth: 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.
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As William Burroughs -
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As John King
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As Dick Raleigh
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As The Lieutenant -
As Wally - the Ranch Owner
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As Wallace
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As Wally
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As The Woodsman
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As The Reporter
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As John Ward - the Man from the Sea
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As Detective Flynn
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As Wallace Burton - the Son
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As Bob Turner
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As Samuel Roebuck
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As Marcus Down
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As Lawson Keene
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As Bob
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As Tim - the Pony Express Rider
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As Frank Bell
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As Curtiss
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As Dane Northrop
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As Jim - the Mountaineer
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As Wallace
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As Pierre
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As Jose - King of the Gypsies
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As Jack - the Young Husband
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As Jack Falkner
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As Wallace Rosslyn
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As Neal
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As Jacques - the Woodsman
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As The Poor Man
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As The Outlaw
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As Father
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As The Artist
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As Joe Mayfield
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As Ray - the Prospector
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As The Prospector
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As Dorian Gray
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As Fowle - a Mission Worker
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As Captain Bruce Douglas
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As Sheriff John Allen
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As Paul Hapgood
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As Reid - a Contractor
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As Edward Daton
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As Policeman
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As Jack Sanders
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As Ben
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As Frank Hammond
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As The Inspector
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As Ralph Walters
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As Robert Gregory
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As Jim Conway
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As Will Wayne
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As Ralph - the New Sheriff
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As Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
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As Cal Jim
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As David - the Journalist
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As Jim
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As Bill Walters
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As The Boy
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As Bill, the Selfish One
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As Joe
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As Harry Reeder
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As Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
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As Wally
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As Wally
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As Gentleman Crook
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As Gentleman Crook
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As Ben Hart
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As Humphrey Van Weyden
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As Wally - the Doctor
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As Reid - Rosson's Brother
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As Reid
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As Tom
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As Wally, a Cowboy
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As Robert Chapman - the Son
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As Arthur Ingraham
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As Extra
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As Captain Stark, U.S.A.
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As Bill Binks
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As John Dayton
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As Billy Burns
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As Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
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As The Secret Service Man
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As Wathuma - the Leopard
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As Icilius
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As Dan, a Young Pioneer
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As Opera Attendee (uncredited)
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As Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
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As Jack Watson
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As Midas
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As Cohn, Jones' Assistant
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As Young Reporter