Wallace Reid
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William Wallace Halleck Reid was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". He also had a brief career as a racing driver.
Reid in 1920
Reid was a favorite of movie-goers. The original caption of this image from Picture-Play Magazine reads, "The only reason why they don’t let Wally play in dress-suit roles all the time is that the casualties among the ladies would soon empty the picture houses. In fact, we feel that we’re toying with the fan hearts even to print this picture."
The urn of Wallace Reid, in the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA
The Birth of a Nation
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The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman
Wallace Reid
…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 he had an uncredited role in Intolerance (1916), both directed by D. W. Griffith; he worked with leading ladies such as Florence Turner…
Theatrical release poster
The film's portrayal of the Siege of Petersburg, led by Ben Cameron
Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, portrayed in blackface by white actor Walter Long
George Siegmann, Ralph Lewis, Lillian Gish, and Henry B. Walthall in a scene of the film