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 Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker -
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As David Strong -
As Larry Young -
As Jack Wright -
As John Craig (The 'Dub') -
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As Billy Deering -
As Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne -
As Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden -
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As Harry Webb -
As Rimrock Jones -
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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 John Ward - the Man from the Sea
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As Wally Bristow
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As Samuel Roebuck
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As Wally - the Ranch Owner
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As Wallace
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As Lawson Keene
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As Bob Turner
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As Tim - the Pony Express Rider
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As The Reporter
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As Detective Flynn
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As Dick Raleigh
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As Curtiss
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As Elmer Kent
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As Wallace Burton - the Son
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As Frank Bell
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As Wally
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As Marcus Down
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As The Woodsman
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As The Doctor (unconfirmed)
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As Dane Northrop
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As Jack Falkner
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As Neal
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As Wallace
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As Wallace Rosslyn
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As The Outlaw
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As Jacques - the Woodsman
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As Jack - the Young Husband
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As The Poor Man
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As Joe Mayfield
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As Jose - King of the Gypsies
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As A Miner
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As 'Devotion'
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As Ray - the Prospector
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As The Prospector
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As Jim - the Mountaineer
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As Pierre
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As Wallace
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As The Artist
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As Edward Daton
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As Reid - Rosson's Brother
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As Jack Sanders
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As Will Wayne
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As Fowle - a Mission Worker
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As Policeman
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As Captain Bruce Douglas
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As Jim Conway
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As Ben Hart
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As Dorian Gray
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As Robert Gregory
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As Ben
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As Jim
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As Sheriff John Allen
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As Ralph - the New Sheriff
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As Joe
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As Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
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As Gentleman Crook
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As Wally - the Doctor
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As Wally
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As Reid
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As Gentleman Crook
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As Reid
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As Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
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As Humphrey Van Weyden
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As The Inspector
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As The Animal
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As Wally
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As Bill, the Selfish One
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As Bill Walters
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As Reid - a Contractor
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As The Boy
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As Ralph Walters
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As Cal Jim
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As David - the Journalist
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As Paul Hapgood
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As Frank Hammond
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As Harry Reeder
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As Robert Chapman - the Son
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As Captain Stark, U.S.A.
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As Jack Watson
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As Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
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As Billy Hallock
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As Clerk -
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As Icilius
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As John Dayton
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As The Secret Service Man
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As Billy Burns
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As Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
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As Wathuma - the Leopard
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As Arthur Ingraham
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As Wally, a Cowboy
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As Bill Binks
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As The Artist
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As Dan, a Young Pioneer
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As Midas
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As Cohn, Jones' Assistant
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As Young Reporter