
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 Golden Chance

Enoch Arden

Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

The Deerslayer

Carmen

Diamond Cut Diamond

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The Avenging Conscience

The Woman God Forgot

The Roaring Road

Excuse My Dust

Joan the Woman

The Affairs of Anatol

The Valley of the Giants

The Victoria Cross

The Hell Diggers

Old Heidelberg

The Spirit of the Flag

The Little Country Mouse

Playmates

Fortunes of a Composer

Rent Free

The Love Burglar

The Dancin' Fool

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

His Only Son

The Mother of the Ranch

Chumps

Indian Romeo and Juliet

The Seventh Son

The Illumination

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

At Cripple Creek

The Powder Flash of Death

Near To Earth

The Heart of the Hills

The House of Silence

The Dub

Too Many Millions

The Thing We Love

Thirty Days

The Man from Funeral Range

The Spider and Her Web

The Yellow Pawn

The Lost House

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'Cross the Mexican Line

The Den of Thieves

At Dawn

To Have and to Hold

The Love Mask

The Selfish Woman

The House with the Golden Windows

The Golden Fetter

The Prison Without Walls

The World Apart

The Squaw Man's Son

The Hostage

Rimrock Jones

Believe Me, Xantippe

The Firefly of France

Less Than Kin

The Source

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Double Speed

The Charm School

Too Much Speed

Clarence

Arms and the Gringo

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Nice People

Big Timber

The Ghost Breaker

The Love Special

The World's Champion

Maria Rosa

Forever

What's Your Hurry?

The Three Brothers

Always Audacious

Sick Abed

You're Fired

The Dictator

The Devil Stone

Night Life in Hollywood

Don't Tell Everything

Nan of Music Mountain

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