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.

Cast

Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917

Buell Arnister Jr

The Love Burglar

The Dancin' Fool

Sylvester Tibble

The Affairs of Anatol

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage)

The Leading Lady

The Indian Raiders

Cohn, Jones' Assistant

The Mother of the Ranch

The Mother's Friend Back East

A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli

The Seventh Son

One of the Beecham Brothers

George - the Denouement

The Path of True Love

The Country Boy

Jean Intervenes

Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)

Indian Romeo and Juliet

Oniatore / Romeo

The Illumination

Giuseppe's Father

The Victoria Cross

Lt. Cholmodeley

At Scrogginses' Corner

The Telephone Girl

The Hieroglyphic

Fortunes of a Composer

Opera Attendee (uncredited)

Early Days in the West

Dan, a Young Pioneer

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

Basil Underwood

His Mother's Son

At Cripple Creek

Before the White Man Came

Wathuma - the Leopard

Arthur Ingraham

Dick Wilson - Union Soldier

The Secret Service Man

The Secret Service Man

The Hidden Treasure

A Daughter of the Redskins

Captain Stark, U.S.A.

The Seepore Rebellion

Love and the Law

Sheriff John Allen

The Cowboy Guardians

Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave

An Indian Outcast

Wally, a Cowboy

The Guerilla Menace

Captain Bruce Douglas

Song Bird of the North

Fowle - a Mission Worker

Their Masterpiece

Calamity Anne Takes a Trip

Pride of Lonesome

The Powder Flash of Death

Captain Bruce Douglas

The Picket Guard

Reid - a Contractor

A Rose of Old Mexico

The Eye of a God

When Jim Returned

The Tattooed Arm

The Ways of Fate

The Heart of the Hills

Dave - the Woodsman

Youth and Jealousy

The House of Silence

Marcel Levington

John Craig (The 'Dub')

Too Many Millions

Walsingham Van Doren

The Wheel of Life

A Flash in the Dark

The Thing We Love

Rodney Sheridan

The Greater Devotion

Fires of Conscience

Ray - the Prospector

Breed o' the Mountains

The Man from Funeral Range

Her Innocent Marriage

Ralph - the New Sheriff

Bill Reeves - the Cowboy

Cupid Incognito

The Spider and Her Web

The Mountaineer

Jim - the Mountaineer

The Voice of the Viola

The Way of a Woman

A Gypsy Romance

Jose - King of the Gypsies

Jack - the Young Husband

When Luck Changes

In Love and War

David - the Journalist

Hearts and Horses

The Fruit of Evil

Wallace Rosslyn

The Daughter of a Crook

Women and Roses

Bill, the Selfish One

Passing of the Beast

Jacques - the Woodsman

An Even Exchange

The Harvest of Flame

The Gratitude of Wanda

The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine

Reid - Rosson's Brother

The Spark of Manhood

Humphrey Van Weyden

The Wall of Money

Wallace - McQuarrie's Son

The Cracksman's Reformation

Gentleman Crook

The Heart of a Cracksman

Gentleman Crook

The Fires of Fate

Wally - the Doctor

A Cracksman Santa Claus

Gentleman Crook

The Lightning Bolt

Whoso Diggeth a Pit

The Countess Betty's Mine

Love's Western Flight

Wally - the Ranch Owner

Station Content

A Yankee from the West

Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud

The Chorus Lady

Down by the Sounding Sea

John Ward - the Man from the Sea

The Wall of Flame

Wallace - the Fire Inspector

The Yellow Pawn

The Wrong Heart

'Cross the Mexican Line

A Wife on a Wager

The Den of Thieves

The City Beautiful

The Country Boy

For Her Father's Sins

Sierra Jim's Reformation

Tim - the Pony Express Rider

The Doctor (unconfirmed)

The Avenging Conscience

The Doctor (uncredited)

Moonshine Molly

Down the Hill to Creditville

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

The High Grader

Detective Flynn

A Mother's Influence

Wallace Burton - the Son

The Joke on Yellentown

To Have and to Hold

Captain Ralph Percy

The House with the Golden Windows

The Selfish Woman

The Golden Fetter

James Roger Ralston

The Man Who Saved the Day

The Tell-Tale Arm

The Prison Without Walls

Huntington Babbs

The World Apart

The Squaw Man's Son

Lord Effington, aka Hal

Lieutenant Kemper

The Firefly of France

Believe Me, Xantippe

George MacFarland

Van Twiller Yard

Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers

The Lottery Man

Alias Mike Moran

'Dusty' Rhoades

The Charm School

The Hell Diggers

The Woman God Forgot

The Roaring Road

Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden

'Toodles' Walden

Arms and the Gringo

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Self (archive footage)

A Trip to Paramountown

Captain Billy Wade

Prince Karl Heinrich

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne

The Golden Chance

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)

Diamond Cut Diamond

Every Inch a Man

Robert Chapman - the Son

The Birth of a Nation

Jeff, the Blacksmith

The Ghost Breaker

Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker

The Love Special

The World's Champion

William Burroughs

The Spirit of the Flag

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Valley of the Giants

What's Your Hurry?

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage)

The Three Brothers

Jean Gaudet / Will

The Little Country Mouse

Lieutenant Hawkhurst

Always Audacious

Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks

The Devil Stone

Night Life in Hollywood

Don't Tell Everything

Nan of Music Mountain

Across the Continent

Crew

A Rose of Old Mexico

The Ways of Fate

The Tattooed Arm

Director, Writer

When Jim Returned

Director, Writer

The Heart of the Hills

Director, Writer

Youth and Jealousy

Her Innocent Marriage

The Heart of a Cracksman

Writer, Director

The Fires of Fate

Director, Scenario Writer

The Cracksman's Reformation

A Cracksman Santa Claus

The Lightning Bolt

Writer, Director

Writer, Director

A Flash in the Dark

The Wheel of Life

The Greater Devotion

Fires of Conscience

The Countess Betty's Mine

Breed o' the Mountains

The Mountaineer

Director, Writer

The Voice of the Viola

The Way of a Woman

Cupid Incognito

Director, Writer

A Gypsy Romance

When Luck Changes

Hearts and Horses

Pride of Lonesome

Love's Western Flight

The Fruit of Evil

Director, Writer

The Den of Thieves

A Wife on a Wager

Down by the Sounding Sea

Scenario Writer

'Cross the Mexican Line

Women and Roses

Writer, Director

Passing of the Beast

The Wrong Heart

Scenario Writer, Director

The Harvest of Flame

Director, Writer

The Spark of Manhood

The Gratitude of Wanda

The Man Who Saved the Day

Scenario Writer

Before the White Man Came

Director, Writer

The Hidden Treasure

Love and the Law

Scenario Writer, Director

The Spirit of the Flag

The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine