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Hal Reid (actor)

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Hal Reid (actor)
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James Halleck Reid[1] (April 14, 1863 – May 22, 1920) was an American playwright and stage and screen actor. Reid also directed over a dozen films.

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Early life and career

Born in 1863,[1] in Saint Omer, Indiana,[2][3] and raised in Cedarville, Ohio,[4] Reid was the son of dentist Hugh McMillan Reid and America Elizabeth Truitt.[5][6][3]

Reid entered the film business in 1910 as an actor, director, and writer, bringing along his teen son Wallace Reid, who had aspirations to be a director or cameraman.[citation needed] Many of his plays saw Broadway openings.[7]

In 1912, Reid was appointed Censor to the Universal Film Corporation.[8]

Reid was at one time said to be actually Harry Preston and that he had served a prison sentence for an unspecified crime.[9] In 1915 Reid visited Georgia convicted murderer Leo Frank in prison for source material of a film he was making Thou Shall Not Kill. Frank was convicted, then pardoned for the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan in a famous Georgia murder case.[10]

Reid married Bertha Westbrook, who collaborated with him on some of his writing. Film actor Wallace Reid was their son.[11]

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Selected plays

  • At Cripple Creek
  • A Mother's Love
  • A Child Wife
  • Custer's Last Fight (1905)
  • For Love of a Woman
  • Human Hearts (original title Logan's Luck, 1895)[12][13]
  • In Convict Stripes
  • Knobs o'Tennessee (1899)
  • A Working Girl's Wrong
  • A Wife for a Day
  • A Wife's Secret (1903)
  • For a Human Life (1906)
  • A Millionaire's Revenge (1906)
  • The Prince of the World
  • The Avenger (1907)
  • The Gypsy Girl (1905)
  • The Shoemaker (1907)
  • Sweet Molly O! (1907)
  • The Cow Puncher (1906)
  • Roanoak
  • The Peddler (1902)
  • The German Immigrants
  • The Heart of Virginia
  • The Singing Girl from Killarney (1907)
  • The Pride of Newspaper Row
  • From Broadway to Bowery (1907)
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Filmography

  • The Girl from Arizona (1910), short
  • Becket (1910), short
  • Human Hearts (1910), short
  • Wig Wag (1911), short
  • One Touch of Nature (1911), short
  • The Path of True Love (1912), short
  • Jean Intervenes (1912), short
  • Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912), short
  • The Hobo's Redemption (1912), short
  • Cardinal Wolsey (1912), short
  • Father Beauclaire (1912), short
  • Virginius (1912), short
  • A Nation's Peril (1912), short
  • Rip Van Winkle (1912), short
  • Every Inch a Man (1912), short
  • The Deerslayer (1913), short
  • Dan (1914)
  • Time Lock No. 776 (1915)
  • Mothers of Men (1917)
  • Little Miss Hoover (1918)
  • The Two Brides (1919)

Film Director

  • The Victoria Cross (1912) *short
  • Old Love Letters (1912)*short
  • Love in the Ghetto (1912)*short
  • Father Beauclaire (1912)*short
  • Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)*short
  • Kaintuck(1912)*short
  • Virginius (1912)*short
  • Votes for Women (1912)*short
  • A Man's Duty (1912)*short
  • At Cripple Creek (1912)*short
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill (1913)*short
  • The Deerslayer (1913)*short
  • Time Lock No. 776 (1915)*feature
  • Prohibition (1915)*feature
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill (1915)*feature; based on the Leo Frank case
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