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Wallace Reid
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 Man Who Saved the Day
The Wrong Heart
The Heart of the Hills
A Flash in the Dark
The Wheel of Life
The Greater Devotion
Fires of Conscience
The Intruder
The Countess Betty's Mine
Breed o' the Mountains
Regeneration
The Mountaineer
The Voice of the Viola
The Way of a Woman
Cupid Incognito
The Test
A Gypsy Romance
The Skeleton
Love's Western Flight
The Fruit of Evil
The Den of Thieves
A Wife on a Wager
'Cross the Mexican Line
The Quack
Women and Roses
The Siren
Passing of the Beast
The Man Within
A Rose of Old Mexico
The Ways of Fate
Como intérprete
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The Movie Album
The House That Shadows Built
Rent Free
Thirty Days
Clarence
A Trip to Paramountown
Nice People
The Ghost Breaker
The World's Champion
The Dictator
Vida nocturna en Hollywood
Across the Continent
El señorito Primavera
Too Much Speed
The Charm School
The Hell Diggers
The Love Special
Forever
Don't Tell Everything
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
The Dancin' Fool
Double Speed
Excuse My Dust
What's Your Hurry?
Always Audacious
Sick Abed
The Love Burglar
The Dub