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Director, Screenwriter, Actor Born: April 15, 1891 in St. Louis, MO Death: January 18, 1923 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:The son of actor/playwright "Hal Reid" and actress Bertha Westbrook, "Wallace Reid" made his stage debut at age four, playing a little girl in Reid Sr.'s Slaves of Gold. After attending prep school in Pennsylvania and military school in New Jersey, the younger Reid worked as a Wyoming ranch hand and cub newspaper reporter. In 1910 he landed a job with the Selig Polyscope Film Company, hoping to eventually become a cameraman. Over the next three years he worked as a gopher, production assistant, and screenwriter, but it was as a leading man that he found lasting success. While starring in two-reelers at Mutual, he took a pay cut for the privilege of working under director "D.W. Griffith", appearing in the brief but telling role as Jeff the Blacksmith in "The Birth of a Nation" (1915). It didn't take long before he was firmly established as Paramount Pictures' top male screen personality, starring in one... Full Biography
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