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 Dick Raleigh
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As The Woodsman
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As Wallace Rosslyn
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As Pierre
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As Neal
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As Jim - the Mountaineer
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As Jose - King of the Gypsies
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As Wallace
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As Joe Mayfield
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As A Miner
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As Jack Falkner
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As Edward Daton
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As Reid - a Contractor
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As Wally
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As Jack Sanders
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As Captain Bruce Douglas
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As Policeman
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As Will Wayne
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As Jim Conway
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As Wally
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As Reid
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As Ralph - the New Sheriff
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As Reid - Rosson's Brother
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As Humphrey Van Weyden
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As The Animal
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As The Inspector
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As The Boy
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As Harry Reeder
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As Bill Walters
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As Frank Hammond
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As Paul Hapgood
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As Joe
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As Cal Jim
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As Ralph Walters
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As Billy Hallock
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As The Secret Service Man
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As Icilius
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As Bill Binks
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As Wathuma - the Leopard
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As Opera Attendee (uncredited)
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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