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William Wallace Halleck Reid
Wallace Reid
Acting
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 Turner, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Els…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
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)
The Dictator
as Brooke Travers
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker