Wallace Reid
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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.
Como Ator/Atriz
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
Carmen
Don Jose
The Birth of a Nation
Jeff, the Blacksmith
Clarence
Clarence Smith
The Source
Van Twiller Yard
Big Timber
Jack Fife
Double Speed
'Speed' Carr
Rimrock Jones
Rimrock Jones
The Hostage
Lieutenant Kemper
Playmates
Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Woman God Forgot
Alvarado
Maria Rosa
Andreas
The Victoria Cross
Lt. Cholmodeley
Don't Tell Everything
Cullen Dale
The Selfish Woman
Tom Morley
Less Than Kin
Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
The Affairs of Anatol
Anatol Spencer
Nan of Music Mountain
Henry de Spain
The Little Country Mouse
Lieutenant Hawkhurst
The Dictator
Brooke Travers
Joan the Woman
Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Old Heidelberg
Prince Karl Heinrich
The World Apart
Bob Fulton
The Lottery Man
Jack Wright
The Lost House
Ford
The Avenging Conscience
The Doctor (uncredited)
To Have and to Hold
Captain Ralph Percy
The Love Burglar
David Strong
The Yellow Pawn
James Weldon