Wallace Reid

A few of Reid's films:. His autobiography, titled My Life, was published in 1994. Wallace Reid's contribution to the motion-picture industry has been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In early 2000, he created and toured Burt Reynolds' One Man Show. 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. Reynolds started a comeback with the movie Striptease (1996), and the critically acclaimed Boogie Nights (1997) put his career back on track. Beyond the adoration of moviegoers, Wallace Reid was admired and respected by fellow actors as well as the studio executives who employed him. The bad press from his divorce caused Reynolds' already slowing career to nosedive and he had to declare bankruptcy in late 1996.

A happy, well-adjusted man, he had been close to his parents and was dedicated to his wife and children. The divorce from Loni Anderson became a highly publicized, bitter feud. 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. Reynolds was married to actress Judy Carne from 1963 - 1965 and actress Loni Anderson from 1988 - 1993 and had relationships with other actresses such as Sally Field and Dinah Shore. Dead at age thirty-one, Wallace Reid was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Reynolds has also directed a few movies, the best-known being Sharky's Machine, released in 1981. By late 1922 his health had deteriorated badly and after contracting the flu, he fell into a coma from which he never recovered. Reynolds has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Reid's morphine dependency deepened at a time when proper help for any form of addiction was non-existent. In 1997, Reynolds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Boogie Nights and won a Golden Globe Award for the movie. 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. During the first half of the 1990s, he was the star of the CBS television series Evening Shade, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1991). 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. It is said to be the first centerfold of a (near) nude male. 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. 4) issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Lasky and would star in another sixty plus films for Lasky's Famous Players film company. 172, No. Already involved with the creation of more than a hundred motion picture shorts, Reid was signed by producer Jesse L. Reynolds gained additional notoriety in 1972 when he posed in the April (Vol. 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. His breakout performance in Deliverance (1972) made him a star. 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. His film debut was in 1961, in the movie Angel Baby.

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. Reynolds first starred on television, in the 1950s series Riverboat. 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. He made his Broadway debut in Look, We've Come Through. Instead, Vitagraph executives capitalized on his sex appeal and in addition to having him direct, they cast him in a major role. He did gigs as a stuntman for television programs until he was "discovered" in a revival of Mister Roberts in New York City and signed to a television acting contract. 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. Reynolds won a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse and moved to upstate New York.

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. He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts National Football League team, but he never played professional football. As a teenager, he spent time in Wyoming where he learned to be an outdoorsman. After a knee injury in 1955 and then a debilitating car accident, Reynolds switched from athletics to college drama and won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award. 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. Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star Southern Conference halfback. 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 may be best remembered as the "Bandit" in the 1977 hit film Smokey and the Bandit and the film's two sequels, Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983).

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. Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (born February 11, 1936 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American actor of (partial) Cherokee descent. 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". Boogie Nights (1997). Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. Striptease (1996). Across the Continent (1922). Evening Shade (TV 1990-1994).

The Affairs Of Anatol (1921). Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983). Forever (1921). The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). Hawthorne of the USA (1919). The Cannonball Run (1981). The House of Silence (1918). Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

The Prison Without Walls (1917). Starting Over (1979). Big Timber (1917). Semi-Tough (1977). Intolerance (1916). Smokey and the Bandit (1977). The Birth of a Nation (1915). Hustle (1975).

Old Heidelberg (1915). The Longest Yard (1974). Carmen (1915). The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973). The Deerslayer (1913). Deliverance (1972). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913). Dan August (TV 1970 - 1971).

Jean Intervenes (1912). Sam Whiskey (1969). Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912). Hawk (TV 1966). Gunsmoke (TV 1955 - 1975) Reynolds appeared (1962 - 1965). Angel Baby (1961).

Riverboat (TV 1959 - 1960).