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.
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The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
Carmen
as Don Jose
Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
The Mother of the Ranch
as The Mother's Friend Back East
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
Thirty Days
as John Floyd
Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self