Wallace Reid

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-04-14 (32 years old)

Deathday

1923-01-18

Place of Birth

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Wallace Reid

Biography

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 beco...

Acting

1916

Joan the Woman

as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917

1922

Rent Free

as Buell Arnister Jr

1919

The Love Burglar

as David Strong

1920

The Dancin' Fool

as Sylvester Tibble

1921

The Affairs of Anatol

as Anatol Spencer

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1912

His Only Son

as Bob Madden

1910

The Phoenix

as Young Reporter

1911

The Reporter

as Cohn, Jones' Assistant

1911

The Mother of the Ranch

as The Mother's Friend Back East

1911

War

as Midas

1912

The Path of True Love

as The Country Boy

1912

Chumps

as George - the Denouement

1912

Jean Intervenes

as Billy Hallock

1912

Indian Romeo and Juliet

as Oniatore / Romeo

1912

Playmates

as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)

1912

The Telephone Girl

as Jack Watson

1912

The Seventh Son

as One of the Beecham Brothers

1912

The Illumination

as Giuseppe's Father

1912

The Victoria Cross

as Lt. Cholmodeley

1912

Fortunes of a Composer

as Opera Attendee (uncredited)

1912

Early Days in the West

as Dan, a Young Pioneer

1912

1912

Kaintuck

as The Artist

1912

Virginius

as Icilius

1912

The Gamblers

as Arthur Ingraham

1912

Before the White Man Came

as Wathuma - the Leopard

1912

A Man's Duty

as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier

1912

At Cripple Creek

as Joe Mayfield

1912

Making Good

as Billy Burns

1912

The Secret Service Man

as The Secret Service Man

1912

Hunted Down

as John Dayton

1912

The Tribal Law

as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave

1912

A Daughter of the Redskins

as Captain Stark, U.S.A.

1912

An Indian Outcast

as Wally, a Cowboy

1912

The Hidden Treasure

as Bill Binks

1913

Love and the Law

as Sheriff John Allen

1913

The Guerilla Menace

as Captain Bruce Douglas

1913

Song Bird of the North

as Fowle - a Mission Worker

1913

Their Masterpiece

as Jack Sanders

1913

Pride of Lonesome

as Edward Daton

1913

The Powder Flash of Death

as Captain Bruce Douglas

1913

1913

Mental Suicide

as Reid - a Contractor

1913

A Rose of Old Mexico

as Paul Hapgood

1913

The Eye of a God

as Frank Hammond

1913

The Ways of Fate

as Jim Conway

1913

The Tattooed Arm

as Ben Hart

1913

The Brothers

as Robert Gregory

1913

The Kiss

as Ralph Walters

1914

The Heart of the Hills

as Dave - the Woodsman

1918

The House of Silence

as Marcel Levington

1919

The Dub

as John Craig (The 'Dub')

1918

Too Many Millions

as Walsingham Van Doren

1914

The Wheel of Life

as The Prospector

1914

Fires of Conscience

as Ray - the Prospector

1914

1914

1918

The Thing We Love

as Rodney Sheridan

1922

Thirty Days

as John Floyd

1914

Breed o' the Mountains

as Joe Mayfield

1913

1913

A Modern Snare

as Ralph - the New Sheriff

1913

On the Border

as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy

1914

Regeneration

as The Artist

1914

1914

The Mountaineer

as Jim - the Mountaineer

1914

Cupid Incognito

as Jack Falkner

1914

A Gypsy Romance

as Jose - King of the Gypsies

1914

The Test

as The Poor Man

1914

The Skeleton

as Jack - the Young Husband

1913

1913

Via Cabaret

as Harry Reeder

1913

Hearts and Horses

as Bill Walters

1913

In Love and War

as David - the Journalist

1913

Women and War

as The Boy

1914

Women and Roses

as Wallace

1914

The Quack

as Wallace Rosslyn

1914

The Siren

as Dane Northrop

1913

Man's Duty

as Bill, the Selfish One

1914

The Man Within

as The Outlaw

1914

Passing of the Beast

as Jacques - the Woodsman

1913

The Animal

as The Animal

1913

The Harvest of Flame

as The Inspector

1913

The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine

as Reid - Rosson's Brother

1913

The Wall of Money

as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son

1913

The Heart of a Cracksman

as Gentleman Crook

1913

The Cracksman's Reformation

as Gentleman Crook

1913

The Fires of Fate

as Wally - the Doctor

1913

1913

1913

A Cracksman Santa Claus

as Gentleman Crook

1914

The Intruder

as The Woodsman

1914

Love's Western Flight

as Wally - the Ranch Owner

1916

The Yellow Pawn

as James Weldon

1916

The Wall of Flame

as Wallace - the Fire Inspector

1915

The Craven

as Bud Walton

1915

1915

Station Content

as Jim Manning

1915

A Yankee from the West

as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud

1915

The Chorus Lady

as Danny Mallory

1914

A Wife on a Wager

as Wally Bristow

1914

1914

1914

The City Beautiful

as The Country Boy

1914

Down by the Sounding Sea

as John Ward - the Man from the Sea

1914

The Avenging Conscience

as The Doctor (uncredited)

1914

Moonshine Molly

as Lawson Keene

1914

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

as Samuel Roebuck

1914

Sierra Jim's Reformation

as Tim - the Pony Express Rider

1914

The High Grader

as Dick Raleigh

1914

Her Doggy

as The Doctor (unconfirmed)

1914

Her Awakening

as Bob Turner

1914

1914

A Mother's Influence

as Wallace Burton - the Son

1914

The Niggard

as Elmer Kent

1914

The Odalisque

as Curtiss

1914

Another Chance

as Detective Flynn

1914

1914

At Dawn

as The Lieutenant

1914

The Exposure

as The Reporter

1916

To Have and to Hold

as Captain Ralph Percy

1916

The Love Mask

as Dan Derring

1916

The Selfish Woman

as Tom Morley

1917

The Golden Fetter

as James Roger Ralston

1917

The Prison Without Walls

as Huntington Babbs

1917

The World Apart

as Bob Fulton

1917

The Squaw Man's Son

as Lord Effington, aka Hal

1917

The Hostage

as Lieutenant Kemper

1918

Rimrock Jones

as Rimrock Jones

1918

Believe Me, Xantippe

as George MacFarland

1918

The Firefly of France

as Devereux Bayne

1918

Less Than Kin

as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers

1918

The Source

as Van Twiller Yard

1918

His Extra Bit

as The Husband

1919

Alias Mike Moran

as Larry Young

1919

The Lottery Man

as Jack Wright

1920

Double Speed

as 'Speed' Carr

1921

The Charm School

as Austin Bevans

1921

Too Much Speed

as 'Dusty' Rhoades

1921

The Hell Diggers

as Teddy Darman

1922

Clarence

as Clarence Smith

1914

Baby's Ride

as Father

1915

Carmen

as Don Jose

1915

Enoch Arden

as Walter Fenn

1917

1919

The Roaring Road

as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden

1920

Excuse My Dust

as 'Toodles' Walden

1914

1942

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)

1922

Nice People

as Captain Billy Wade

1917

Big Timber

as Jack Fife

1915

Old Heidelberg

as Prince Karl Heinrich

1919

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne

1915

The Golden Chance

as Roger Manning

1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)

1912

Every Inch a Man

as Robert Chapman - the Son

1913

The Deerslayer

as Chingachgook

1915

The Birth of a Nation

as Jeff, the Blacksmith

1922

The Ghost Breaker

as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker

1921

The Love Special

as Jim Glover

1922

The World's Champion

as William Burroughs

1913

1916

Maria Rosa

as Andreas

1913

1921

Forever

as Peter Ibbetson

1919

The Valley of the Giants

as Bryce Cardigan

1920

What's Your Hurry?

as Dusty Rhoades

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1915

The Three Brothers

as Jean Gaudet / Will

1914

The Little Country Mouse

as Lieutenant Hawkhurst

1920

Always Audacious

as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks

1920

Sick Abed

as Reginald Jay

1919

You're Fired

as Billy Deering

1922

The Dictator

as Brooke Travers

1917

The Devil Stone

as Guy Sterling

1921

Don't Tell Everything

as Cullen Dale

1917

Nan of Music Mountain

as Henry de Spain

1922

Production

1913

1913

The Ways of Fate

as Director

1913

1913

1913

The Tattooed Arm

as Director

1913

1913

The Brothers

as Director

1913

1913

The Kiss

as Director

1914

1913

1913

A Modern Snare

as Director

1913

On the Border

as Director

1913

1913

The Fires of Fate

as Scenario Writer

1913

Cross Purposes

as Director

1913

Retribution

as Director

1913

1913

1913

A Hopi Legend

as Director

1913

A Hopi Legend

as Writer

1914

The Intruder

as Director

1914

1914

1914

1914

1914

1914

Regeneration

as Director

1914

1914

1914

The Mountaineer

as Director

1914

1914

Cupid Incognito

as Director

1914

1914

A Gypsy Romance

as Director

1914

The Test

as Director

1913

1913

Via Cabaret

as Director

1913

1913

Women and War

as Writer

1914

The Skeleton

as Director

1913

1913

A Foreign Spy

as Director

1913

1914

1914

1914

1914

1914

1914

Down by the Sounding Sea

as Scenario Writer

1914

Women and Roses

as Director

1914

1914

The Quack

as Director

1914

The Siren

as Director

1914

The Man Within

as Director

1914

1916

The Wrong Heart

as Director

1916

The Wrong Heart

as Scenario Writer

1913

1913

1913

1912

Chumps

as Scenario Writer

1912

The Tribal Law

as Director

1912

1912

1913

Love and the Law

as Director

1913

Love and the Law

as Scenario Writer

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