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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 14, 1891
Died
January 18, 1923
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
- William Wallace Halleck Reid
Wallace Reid
0.7 Popularity
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, 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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
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Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
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(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
1931
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John Floyd
Thirty Days
1922
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Self
Night Life in Hollywood
1922
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Clarence Smith
Clarence
1922
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Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
The Ghost Breaker
1922
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Captain Billy Wade
Nice People
1922
7.3
Self
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
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Brooke Travers
The Dictator
1922
Credits
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
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The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
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Thirty Days
as John Floyd
1922
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Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
1922
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Clarence
as Clarence Smith
1922
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The Ghost Breaker
as Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
1922
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Nice People
as Captain Billy Wade
1922
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A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
7.3
The Dictator
as Brooke Travers
1922
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Across the Continent
as Jimmy Dent
1922
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The World's Champion
as William Burroughs
1922
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Rent Free
as Buell Arnister Jr
1922
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Don't Tell Everything
as Cullen Dale
1921
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Forever
as Peter Ibbetson
1921
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The Affairs of Anatol
as Anatol Spencer
1921
5.6
The Hell Diggers
as Teddy Darman
1921
5.0
Too Much Speed
as 'Dusty' Rhoades
1921
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The Love Special
as Jim Glover
1921
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The Charm School
as Austin Bevans
1921
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Always Audacious
as Perry Dayton / 'Slim' Attucks
1920
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What's Your Hurry?
as Dusty Rhoades
1920
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Sick Abed
as Reginald Jay
1920
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The Dancin' Fool
as Sylvester Tibble
1920
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Excuse My Dust
as 'Toodles' Walden
1920
5.7
Double Speed
as 'Speed' Carr
1920
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne
1919
6.2
The Lottery Man
as Jack Wright
1919
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The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
1919
5.5
The Love Burglar
as David Strong
1919
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You're Fired
as Billy Deering
1919
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The Roaring Road
as Walter Thomas 'Toodles' Walden
1919
5.8
Alias Mike Moran
as Larry Young
1919
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The Dub
as John Craig (The 'Dub')
1919
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Too Many Millions
as Walsingham Van Doren
1918
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The Man from Funeral Range
as Harry Webb
1918
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His Extra Bit
as The Husband
1918
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The Source
as Van Twiller Yard
1918
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Less Than Kin
as Hobart Lee / Lewis Vickers
1918
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The Firefly of France
as Devereux Bayne
1918
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Believe Me, Xantippe
as George MacFarland
1918
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The House of Silence
as Marcel Levington
1918
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The Thing We Love
as Rodney Sheridan
1918
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Rimrock Jones
as Rimrock Jones
1918
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The Devil Stone
as Guy Sterling
1917
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Nan of Music Mountain
as Henry de Spain
1917
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The Woman God Forgot
as Alvarado
1917
5.8
The Hostage
as Lieutenant Kemper
1917
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The Squaw Man's Son
as Lord Effington, aka Hal
1917
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Big Timber
as Jack Fife
1917
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The World Apart
as Bob Fulton
1917
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The Tell-Tale Arm
1917
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The Prison Without Walls
as Huntington Babbs
1917
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The Man Who Saved the Day
as John King
1917
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The Golden Fetter
as James Roger Ralston
1917
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Joan the Woman
as Eric Trent 1431 / Eric Trent 1917
1916
5.6
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The Wrong Heart
1916
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The Wall of Flame
as Wallace - the Fire Inspector
1916
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The Yellow Pawn
as James Weldon
1916
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Boy Killed in Battle (uncredited)
1916
7.1
The House with the Golden Windows
as Tom Wells
1916
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The Selfish Woman
as Tom Morley
1916
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Maria Rosa
as Andreas
1916
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The Love Mask
as Dan Derring
1916
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To Have and to Hold
as Captain Ralph Percy
1916
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The Golden Chance
as Roger Manning
1915
6.6
Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
1915
5.0
Carmen
as Don Jose
1915
6.1
The Chorus Lady
as Danny Mallory
1915
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A Yankee from the West
as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
1915
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Station Content
as Jim Manning
1915
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Enoch Arden
as Walter Fenn
1915
6.3
The Lost House
as Ford
1915
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The Birth of a Nation
as Jeff, the Blacksmith
1915
5.9
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The Craven
as Bud Walton
1915
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The Three Brothers
as Jean Gaudet / Will
1915
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Baby's Ride
as Father
1914
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The Exposure
as The Reporter
1914
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The Joke on Yellentown
1914
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At Dawn
as The Lieutenant
1914
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Over the Ledge
as Bob
1914
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Another Chance
as Detective Flynn
1914
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The Little Country Mouse
as Lieutenant Hawkhurst
1914
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The Odalisque
as Curtiss
1914
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The Niggard
as Elmer Kent
1914
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A Mother's Influence
as Wallace Burton - the Son
1914
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For Her Father's Sins
as Frank Bell
1914
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Her Doggy
as The Doctor (unconfirmed)
1914
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Her Awakening
as Bob Turner
1914
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Down the Hill to Creditville
as Marcus Down
1914
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The High Grader
as Dick Raleigh
1914
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Sierra Jim's Reformation
as Tim - the Pony Express Rider
1914
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Samuel Roebuck
1914
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Moonshine Molly
as Lawson Keene
1914
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The Avenging Conscience
as The Doctor (uncredited)
1914
5.9
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Down by the Sounding Sea
as John Ward - the Man from the Sea
1914
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The City Beautiful
as The Country Boy
1914
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Arms and the Gringo
as Sullivan
1914
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The Den of Thieves
as Wallace
1914
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'Cross the Mexican Line
as Lt. Wallace
1914
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A Wife on a Wager
as Wally Bristow
1914
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Love's Western Flight
as Wally - the Ranch Owner
1914
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Passing of the Beast
as Jacques - the Woodsman
1914
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The Man Within
as The Outlaw
1914
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The Siren
as Dane Northrop
1914
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The Quack
as Wallace Rosslyn
1914
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Women and Roses
as Wallace
1914
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The Daughter of a Crook
as Neal
1914
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The Fruit of Evil
1914
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The Skeleton
as Jack - the Young Husband
1914
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The Test
as The Poor Man
1914
5.0
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A Gypsy Romance
as Jose - King of the Gypsies
1914
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Cupid Incognito
as Jack Falkner
1914
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The Spider and Her Web
1914
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The Way of a Woman
as Pierre
1914
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The Mountaineer
as Jim - the Mountaineer
1914
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The Heart of the Hills
as Dave - the Woodsman
1914
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The Voice of the Viola
as Wallace
1914
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Regeneration
as The Artist
1914
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Breed o' the Mountains
as Joe Mayfield
1914
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A Flash in the Dark
as A Miner
1914
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The Greater Devotion
as 'Devotion'
1914
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Fires of Conscience
as Ray - the Prospector
1914
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The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector
1914
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The Countess Betty's Mine
as Wallace
1914
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The Intruder
as The Woodsman
1914
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Whoso Diggeth a Pit
as Wally
1914
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A Hopi Legend
1913
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The Lightning Bolt
as Reid
1913
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A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Gentleman Crook
1913
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Retribution
as Reid
1913
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Cross Purposes
as Wally
1913
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The Fires of Fate
as Wally - the Doctor
1913
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The Cracksman's Reformation
as Gentleman Crook
1913
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The Heart of a Cracksman
as Gentleman Crook
1913
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The Wall of Money
as Wallace - McQuarrie's Son
1913
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The Gratitude of Wanda
as Wally
1913
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The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
as Reid - Rosson's Brother
1913
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The Spark of Manhood
as Humphrey Van Weyden
1913
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The Harvest of Flame
as The Inspector
1913
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The Animal
as The Animal
1913
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An Even Exchange
as Joe
1913
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Man's Duty
as Bill, the Selfish One
1913
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Mental Suicide
as Reid - a Contractor
1913
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The Picket Guard
as Sentry
1913
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A Foreign Spy
1913
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The Powder Flash of Death
as Captain Bruce Douglas
1913
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Pride of Lonesome
as Edward Daton
1913
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Song Bird of the North
as Fowle - a Mission Worker
1913
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Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
as Policeman
1913
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The Guerilla Menace
as Captain Bruce Douglas
1913
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Women and War
as The Boy
1913
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In Love and War
as David - the Journalist
1913
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Hearts and Horses
as Bill Walters
1913
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The Spirit of the Flag
as Dr. Reid
1913
5.0
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Via Cabaret
as Harry Reeder
1913
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When Luck Changes
as Cal Jim
1913
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His Mother's Son
1913
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On the Border
as Bill Reeves - the Cowboy
1913
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Her Innocent Marriage
as Will Wayne
1913
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A Modern Snare
as Ralph - the New Sheriff
1913
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The Kiss
as Ralph Walters
1913
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Youth and Jealousy
as Ben
1913
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The Deerslayer
as Chingachgook
1913
6.2
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The Brothers
as Robert Gregory
1913
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The Tattooed Arm
as Ben Hart
1913
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When Jim Returned
as Jim
1913
5.0
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The Ways of Fate
as Jim Conway
1913
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The Eye of a God
as Frank Hammond
1913
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Near To Earth
1913
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A Rose of Old Mexico
as Paul Hapgood
1913
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Their Masterpiece
as Jack Sanders
1913
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Pirate Gold
1913
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Love and the Law
as Sheriff John Allen
1913
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
1913
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The Hidden Treasure
as Bill Binks
1912
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An Indian Outcast
as Wally, a Cowboy
1912
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The Tribal Law
as Tall Pine aka Jose Seville - Apache Brave
1912
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The Cowboy Guardians
1912
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A Daughter of the Redskins
as Captain Stark, U.S.A.
1912
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Hunted Down
as John Dayton
1912
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Early Days in the West
as Dan, a Young Pioneer
1912
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Every Inch a Man
as Robert Chapman - the Son
1912
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His Only Son
as Bob Madden
1912
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The Indian Raiders
as Tom
1912
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The Secret Service Man
as The Secret Service Man
1912
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Making Good
as Billy Burns
1912
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At Cripple Creek
as Joe Mayfield
1912
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A Man's Duty
as Dick Wilson - Union Soldier
1912
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Before the White Man Came
as Wathuma - the Leopard
1912
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The Gamblers
as Arthur Ingraham
1912
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Virginius
as Icilius
1912
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Kaintuck
as The Artist
1912
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Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
as Basil Underwood
1912
0.0
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Clerk
1912
6.0
Fortunes of a Composer
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
1912
4.0
🎬
The Hieroglyphic
1912
0.0
The Victoria Cross
as Lt. Cholmodeley
1912
5.0
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Brothers
1912
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At Scrogginses' Corner
1912
0.0
The Illumination
as Giuseppe's Father
1912
0.0
The Seventh Son
as One of the Beecham Brothers
1912
0.0
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The Telephone Girl
as Jack Watson
1912
0.0
Playmates
as Party Guest at Piano (uncredited)
1912
4.0
Indian Romeo and Juliet
as Oniatore / Romeo
1912
0.0
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Jean Intervenes
as Billy Hallock
1912
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Chumps
as George - the Denouement
1912
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The Path of True Love
as The Country Boy
1912
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A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
1912
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The Seepore Rebellion
as Extra
1912
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War
as Midas
1911
9.5
The Mother of the Ranch
as The Mother's Friend Back East
1911
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The Reporter
as Cohn, Jones' Assistant
1911
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The Leading Lady
1911
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The Phoenix
as Young Reporter
1910
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