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 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
The Source
Film · 1918
The Prison Without Walls
Film · 1917
The Golden Fetter
Film · 1917
The Hostage
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 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 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 Spider and Her Web
Film · 1914
Women and Roses
Film · 1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
Film · 1914
The Avenging Conscience
Film · 1914
The Den of Thieves
Film · 1914
At Dawn
Film · 1914
Arms and the Gringo
Film · 1914
The Little Country Mouse
Film · 1914
The Powder Flash of Death
Film · 1913
Near To Earth
Film · 1913
The Deerslayer
Film · 1913
The Spirit of the Flag
Film · 1913
His Only Son
Film · 1912
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Film · 1912
Playmates
Film · 1912
Chumps
Film · 1912
The Victoria Cross
Film · 1912
The Seventh Son
Film · 1912
The Illumination
Film · 1912
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Film · 1912
At Cripple Creek
Film · 1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
Film · 1912
The Mother of the Ranch
Film · 1911