Father of actor Wallace Reid Jr..
Had blue eyes.
In 1919, was treated with morphine to relieve back pain from an injury sustained in a train crash. He became addicted to the drug.
Son of actor Hal Reid.
Son-in-law of Harry Davenport and Alice Davenport.
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)