Trivia

In 1919, was treated with morphine to relieve back pain from an injury sustained in a train crash. He became addicted to the drug.

Pallbearers at his funeral consisted of Noah Beery, William Desmond, Ed Brady, William S. Hart, Eugene Pallette and Benny Frazee (Reid's chauffeur). The honorary pallbearers were Victor H. Clark (representing Famous Players-Lasky) Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Conrad Nagel, Theodore Roberts, and Sam Wood.

The 1920 song "At the Moving Picture Ball" contains the lines; "Handsome Wallace Reid/ Stepped out full of speed" (This was probably just an easy rhyme, but quite an ironic prediction of Reid's fate)

His widow, Dorothy Davenport (billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid), co-produced and appeared in Human Wreckage (1923), making a national tour with the film to publicize the dangers of drug addiction.

Reid was arrested in Portland, Oregon in 1921 for violating prohibition law.

Father of actor Wallace Reid Jr..

In 2007, a biography Wallace Reid: Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol by author E. J. Fleming appeared, the first since his mother's personal recollections after Reid's death.

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 Township, New Jersey. He later graduated from Perkiomen Seminary in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania in 1909.

In the 1980 documentary Hollywood episode "Single Beds and Double Standards", Reid's story is recalled by people who worked with him: Gloria Swanson, Karl Brown, Henry Hathaway, and stuntman Bob Rose.

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 violin.

As a teenager, he spent time in Wyoming, where he learned to be an outdoorsman.

Reid loved racing so much that he even made an (unsuccessful) attempt to qualify for the 1922 Indianapolis 500.

Although Reid's good looks and powerful physique made him the perfect "matinée idol", he was equally happy with roles behind the scenes and often worked as a writer, cameraman, and director.

Reid and his wife Dorothy Davenport had two children: a son, Wallace Reid Jr., born in 1917; and a daughter, Betty Mummert, whom they adopted in 1922 as a three-year-old. Reid's widow never remarried.

Son-in-law of Harry Davenport and Alice Davenport.

Son of actor Hal Reid.

Reid was drawn to the burgeoning movie industry by his father, who shifted from the theatre to writing films, directing them, and acting in them.

In 2018, a biography of Reid was the subject of Karina Longworth's Podcast "You Must Remember This".

Wallace Reid's contribution to the movie industry has been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In Ken Russell's 1977 film Valentino, Reid is portrayed briefly and inaccurately as a bicycle-riding, childish movie star, and he is made to look like a cross among the character he played in Clarence, Harold Lloyd, and the comic actors Jimmie Adams and Churchill Ross.