Wallace Reid

A few of Reid's films:. And yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!". Wallace Reid's contribution to the motion-picture industry has been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. Deaths like his were almost always covered up by the film studios, but his widow made his tragic story known in a 1923 film titled Human Wreckage. Sentence. Beyond the adoration of moviegoers, Wallace Reid was admired and respected by fellow actors as well as the studio executives who employed him. Own.

A happy, well-adjusted man, he had been close to his parents and was dedicated to his wife and children. Its. Unlike the self-destructive behavior of other stars of that era such as Barbara La Marr, Jack Pickford and Jeanne Eagels whose death resulted from drugs and/or alcohol abuse, historical records point to Wallace Reid being a victim of medical ignorance. Is. Dead at age thirty-one, Wallace Reid was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Word. By late 1922 his health had deteriorated badly and after contracting the flu, he fell into a coma from which he never recovered. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every.

Reid's morphine dependency deepened at a time when proper help for any form of addiction was non-existent. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. The powerful drug almost immediately led to a deadly addiction but Reid 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. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. However, in 1919, while working on location in Oregon, Reid was injured in a train wreck and in order to keep on filming he was prescribed morphine for his pain. [Pomp and Circumstance begins playing] I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me 'Live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'Get a life'. His action hero role as the dashing race car driver saw young girls and older women alike flocking to theaters to see his daredevil auto thrillers such as the 1919 hit, The Roaring Road, the two 1920 successes, Double Speed and Excuse My Dust, and in the same genre in 1921, Too Much Speed. And no, I've never had green alien sex, though I'm sure it would be quite an evening.

Lasky and would star in another sixty plus films for Lasky's Famous Players film company. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. Already involved with the creation of more than a hundred motion picture shorts, Reid was signed by producer Jesse L. I don't live on Starship NCC-170...[some audience members say "one"], or own a phaser. Griffith and starred opposite 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. Hooker. In 1913, while at Universal Pictures, Reid met and married actress Dorothy Davenport (1895-1977). In 1915-16 he performed in both masterpieces from director D.W. "I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J.

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. Its sole cover, a version of Pulp's "Common People" performed with Joe Jackson, has received good notices, often to the surprise of the reviewers. Although Reid's good looks and powerful physique made him the perfect "matinee idol," he was equally happy with roles behind the scenes and often worked as a writer, cameraman, and director. The LP has been critically acclaimed for its unique "pop-driven" style. Instead, Vitagraph executives capitalized on his sex appeal and in addition to having him direct, they cast him in a major role. In the fall of 2004, he released a new album entitled Has Been, produced and arranged by Ben Folds and with songs composed by Shatner and Folds. Hooked on making films, Reid used the script from a play his father had written and approached the very successful Vitagraph Studios hoping to be given the opportunity to direct. In his appearance on the animated science-fiction TV series Futurama he recited Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" song during a feast, spoofing his own "Lucy" chant. Shatner also appeared on Ben Folds' "In Love" (on the album Fear of Pop: Volume 1), a "song" about how love can go ever so wrong.

Drawn to the burgeoning motion picture industry by his father who would shift from the theatre to acting, writing, and directing films, in 1910, a 19-year-old Wallace Reid appeared in his first motion picture called The Phoenix, an adaptation of a Milton Nobles play filmed at Selig Polyscope Studios in Chicago. One such commercial featured Shatner with frequent collaborator Ben Folds performing an irony-laden version of Diana Ross hit, Mahogany. As a teenager, he spent time in Wyoming where he learned to be an outdoorsman. In recent years, Shatner has been spoofing his earlier musical career, performing in the same style for a series of Priceline.com television commercials. A gifted all-around athlete, Reid participated in a number of sports while also following an interest in music, learning to play the piano, banjo, drums, and the violin. In 1978, Shatner hosted The Science Fiction Film Awards where he performed Elton John's "Rocket Man"[1] (http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/02-2.html). As a boy, Wallace Reid was performing on stage at an early age but acting was put on hold while he obtained an education at Freehold Military School in Freehold, New Jersey. He said, "If you listen to [this song], you will hollow out your own leg and make a canoe out of it to get off this island.".

Born William Wallace Reid into a show business family, his mother Bertha Westbrook was an actress and his father, Hal Reid, worked successfully in a variety of theatrical jobs, travelling the country. These early renditions are commonly bashed, such as when George Clooney named William Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as one of his Desert Island Discs as an incentive to leave the island. Louis, Missouri, United States - died January 18, 1923 in Hollywood, California, was an actor in silent film referred to by Motion Picture Magazine as "the screen's most perfect lover". Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles. Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. It includes spoken-word covers of "Mr. Across the Continent (1922). His musical album The Transformed Man (1968) has become a camp favorite.

The Affairs Of Anatol (1921). Digital Pictures (http://www.coredp.com/) company, which provided the special effects for the 1996 film Fly Away Home. Forever (1921). Shatner is also the CEO of the Toronto, Ontario-based C.O.R.E. Hawthorne of the USA (1919). Shatner has a 360 acre (1.5 kmē) horse farm in Kentucky named Bellreve where he raises the winning horses. The House of Silence (1918). In his spare time, Shatner enjoys breeding and showing American Saddlebreds and Quarter Horses.

The Prison Without Walls (1917). She currently lives in Southern California. Big Timber (1917). Melanie is the proprietor of Dari, an upscale women's clothing boutique. Intolerance (1916). Shatner has three daughters: Leslie, Lisabeth, and Melanie, and a son, Daniel. The Birth of a Nation (1915). William Shatner has been married four times:.

Old Heidelberg (1915). In 2004, Shatner was cast as the eccentric but highly capable attorney Denny Crane for the final season of the legal drama The Practice and then its subsequent spin-off, Boston Legal. Carmen (1915). Shatner has appeared in several episodes of the television series Third Rock from the Sun as The Big Giant Head, a fat, womanizing, substance-abusing, higher-ranked officer from the same alien planet as the show's protagonists. The Deerslayer (1913). In the 1990s Shatner appeared in several plays on American National Public Radio, written and directed by Norman Corwin. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913). In 1995 a first-person shooter game named William Shatner's TekWar was released, and was the first game to use the Build engine.

Jean Intervenes (1912). This popular series of books led to a number of television movies, in which Shatner played a role, and to a short-lived television series. Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912). The first—published in 1990—was entitled TekWar. Shatner has enjoyed success with a series of "Tek" science fiction novels. He also has found an outlet in spoofing the cavalier, almost superhuman character persona of Captain Kirk, in films such as Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I (1993) and Saturday Night Live, in which he advised Star Trek fans to "Get a life!", repeating a popular catch-phrase.

As the unwilling central public figure of a widespread geek-culture of Trekkies, Shatner is often humorously critical of the sometimes "annoying" fans of Star Trek. Hooker series; this show became a popular hit. While continuing to film the successful series of Star Trek movies, he returned to television in the 1980s, starring as a uniformed police officer in the T.J. Its success re-established Shatner as an actor, and Captain Kirk as a cultural icon.