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 Larry Young -
As David Strong -
As Billy Deering -
As Jack Wright -
As John Craig (The 'Dub') -
As Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden -
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As The Husband
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As John King
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As Bud Walton
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As Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
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As Marcus Down
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As Wally - the Ranch Owner
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As Wally
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As The Woodsman
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As Bob
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As Detective Flynn
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As Wallace Burton - the Son
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As The Reporter
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As Wallace
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As Curtiss
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As John Ward - the Man from the Sea
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As Samuel Roebuck
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As Elmer Kent
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As Dick Raleigh
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As Wally Bristow
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As The Country Boy
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As Frank Bell
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As Tim - the Pony Express Rider
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As Jack - the Young Husband
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As Wallace Rosslyn
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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 The Artist
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As Father
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As Joe Mayfield
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As Neal
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As Jack Falkner
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As Wallace
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As Dane Northrop
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As Ray - the Prospector
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As Jacques - the Woodsman
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As The Outlaw
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As 'Devotion'
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As A Miner
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As The Prospector
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As Captain Bruce Douglas
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As Jack Sanders
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As Edward Daton
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As Policeman
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As Fowle - a Mission Worker
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As Ben
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As Reid - a Contractor
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As Bill, the Selfish One
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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 Ben Hart
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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 Paul Hapgood
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As David - the Journalist
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As Harry Reeder
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As Bill Walters
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As The Boy
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As Humphrey Van Weyden
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As Joe
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As Wally
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As Gentleman Crook
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As Wally - the Doctor
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As Reid
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As Gentleman Crook
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As Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
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As Jim
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As Reid - Rosson's Brother
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As Wally
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As The Animal
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As Gentleman Crook
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As The Inspector
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As Reid
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As Frank Hammond
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As Tom
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As Robert Chapman - the Son
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As The Country Boy
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As Billy Hallock
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As Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
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As Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
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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 Wally, a Cowboy
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As The Secret Service Man
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As Billy Burns
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As Arthur Ingraham
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As Icilius
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As Dan, a Young Pioneer
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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