Wallace Reid
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA — Apr 14 1891• Died Jan 18 1923
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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 T…
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The Birth of a Nation
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
The Dub
John Craig (The 'Dub')
The Affairs of Anatol
Anatol Spencer
Joan the Woman
Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Old Heidelberg
Prince Karl Heinrich
The Charm School
Austin Bevans
The World Apart
Bob Fulton
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
Nan of Music Mountain
Henry de Spain
Across the Continent
Jimmy Dent
Clarence
Clarence Smith
Near To Earth
The Woman God Forgot
Alvarado
Forever
Peter Ibbetson
The World's Champion
William Burroughs
Enoch Arden
Walter Fenn
Thirty Days
John Floyd
The Test
The Poor Man
Carmen
Don Jose
The Man Within
The Outlaw
Maria Rosa
Andreas
The Dictator
Brooke Travers
The Deerslayer
Chingachgook
Excuse My Dust
'Toodles' Walden
Passing of the Beast
Jacques - the Woodsman
Sick Abed
Reginald Jay
Big Timber
Jack Fife
The Lottery Man
Jack Wright
Nice People
Captain Billy Wade
A Yankee from the West
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
The Love Mask
Dan Derring
The Avenging Conscience
The Doctor (uncredited)
Mental Suicide
Reid - a Contractor
Double Speed
'Speed' Carr
The Hostage
Lieutenant Kemper
Too Much Speed
'Dusty' Rhoades
Alias Mike Moran
Larry Young
The Quack
Wallace Rosslyn
You're Fired
Billy Deering
The Siren
Dane Northrop
A Gypsy Romance
Jose - King of the Gypsies
The Thing We Love
Rodney Sheridan
Regeneration
The Artist
Too Many Millions
Walsingham Van Doren
Pirate Gold
A Hopi Legend
The Wheel of Life
The Prospector
Rimrock Jones
Rimrock Jones
The Dancin' Fool
Sylvester Tibble
Night Life in Hollywood
Self
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Reid - Rosson's Brother
The Roaring Road
Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
The Firefly of France
Devereux Bayne
The Craven
Bud Walton
Love's Western Flight
Wally - the Ranch Owner
The Brothers
Robert Gregory
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
War
Midas
The Devil Stone
Guy Sterling
Less Than Kin
Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
The Love Burglar
David Strong
The Intruder
The Woodsman
The Exposure
The Reporter
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray
Man's Duty
Bill, the Selfish One
The Valley of the Giants
Bryce Cardigan
Rent Free
Buell Arnister Jr
Always Audacious
Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
His Extra Bit
The Husband
The Little Country Mouse
Lieutenant Hawkhurst
To Have and to Hold
Captain Ralph Percy
Women and War
The Boy
The Voice of the Viola
Wallace
The House of Silence
Marcel Levington
Via Cabaret
Harry Reeder
A Wife on a Wager
Wally Bristow
The Tribal Law
Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
The Ghost Breaker
Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
Chumps
George - the Denouement
Believe Me, Xantippe
George MacFarland
Over the Ledge
Bob
The Spark of Manhood
Humphrey Van Weyden
At Dawn
The Lieutenant
The Gamblers
Arthur Ingraham
The Den of Thieves
Wallace
When Luck Changes
Cal Jim
The Prison Without Walls
Huntington Babbs
The Odalisque
Curtiss
Retribution
Reid
The Golden Fetter
James Roger Ralston
Hunted Down
John Dayton
Making Good
Billy Burns
The Kiss
Ralph Walters
His Only Son
Bob Madden
The Reporter
Cohn, Jones' Assistant
Baby's Ride
Father
Don't Tell Everything
Cullen Dale
Kaintuck
The Artist
The Golden Chance
Roger Manning
Diamond Cut Diamond
Clerk
The Picket Guard
Sentry
Cross Purposes
Wally
The Phoenix
Young Reporter
The Squaw Man's Son
Lord Effington, aka Hal
The Hell Diggers
Teddy Darman
The Niggard
Elmer Kent
Brothers
The Spirit of the Flag
Dr. Reid
The Source
Van Twiller Yard
The City Beautiful
The Country Boy
Another Chance
Detective Flynn
The Selfish Woman
Tom Morley
Virginius
Icilius
An Indian Outcast
Wally, a Cowboy
The Lost House
Ford
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Samuel Roebuck
The Spider and Her Web
The Yellow Pawn
James Weldon
A Man's Duty
Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
A Foreign Spy
The Love Special
Jim Glover
The Powder Flash of Death
Captain Bruce Douglas
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Gentleman Crook
Indian Romeo and Juliet
Oniatore / Romeo
The Man from Funeral Range
Harry Webb
Down by the Sounding Sea
John Ward - the Man from the Sea
The Victoria Cross
Lt. Cholmodeley
The Skeleton
Jack - the Young Husband
Cupid Incognito
Jack Falkner
A Flash in the Dark
A Miner
Fires of Conscience
Ray - the Prospector
Her Awakening
Bob Turner
Youth and Jealousy
Ben
'Cross the Mexican Line
Lt. Wallace
Down the Hill to Creditville
Marcus Down
The Cowboy Guardians
At Scrogginses' Corner
Their Masterpiece
Jack Sanders
What's Your Hurry?
Dusty Rhoades
The Mother of the Ranch
The Mother's Friend Back East
Song Bird of the North
Fowle - a Mission Worker
The Animal
The Animal
The Hieroglyphic
On the Border
Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
Fortunes of a Composer
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
The Wrong Heart
The Lightning Bolt
Reid
Sierra Jim's Reformation
Tim - the Pony Express Rider
The House with the Golden Windows
Tom Wells
The Illumination
Giuseppe's Father
The Gratitude of Wanda
Wally
The Fires of Fate
Wally - the Doctor
The Wall of Money
Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
Moonshine Molly
Lawson Keene
The Greater Devotion
'Devotion'
The Chorus Lady
Danny Mallory
For Her Father's Sins
Frank Bell
Breed o' the Mountains
Joe Mayfield
A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
Arms and the Gringo
Sullivan
In Love and War
David - the Journalist
A Modern Snare
Ralph - the New Sheriff
The Seventh Son
One of the Beecham Brothers
The Way of a Woman
Pierre
When Jim Returned
Jim
The Tattooed Arm
Ben Hart
A Mother's Influence
Wallace Burton - the Son
The Three Brothers
Jean Gaudet / Will
His Mother's Son
The Fruit of Evil
Her Doggy
The Doctor (unconfirmed)
The Guerilla Menace
Captain Bruce Douglas
The Countess Betty's Mine
Wallace
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Policeman
The Harvest of Flame
The Inspector
Women and Roses
Wallace
The Man Who Saved the Day
John King
The Mountaineer
Jim - the Mountaineer
The Eye of a God
Frank Hammond
The Joke on Yellentown
The Hidden Treasure
Bill Binks
Jean Intervenes
Billy Hallock
Hearts and Horses
Bill Walters
The Heart of the Hills
Dave - the Woodsman
Early Days in the West
Dan, a Young Pioneer
The Heart of a Cracksman
Gentleman Crook
A Daughter of the Redskins
Captain Stark, U.S.A.
The Ways of Fate
Jim Conway
Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Wally
The Wall of Flame
Wallace - the Fire Inspector
Before the White Man Came
Wathuma - the Leopard
The Leading Lady
Pride of Lonesome
Edward Daton
Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
Basil Underwood
Every Inch a Man
Robert Chapman - the Son
At Cripple Creek
Joe Mayfield
The Cracksman's Reformation
Gentleman Crook
The Indian Raiders
Tom
The Telephone Girl
Jack Watson
An Even Exchange
Joe
Playmates
Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
Love and the Law
Sheriff John Allen
The Seepore Rebellion
Extra
The Daughter of a Crook
Neal
The Path of True Love
The Country Boy
The Secret Service Man
The Secret Service Man
Her Innocent Marriage
Will Wayne
The Tell-Tale Arm
Station Content
Jim Manning
A Rose of Old Mexico
Paul Hapgood
The High Grader
Dick Raleigh