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Hal Reid
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Born	James Halleck Reid (1863-04-14)April 14, 1863 Cedarville, Ohio, U.S.
Died	May 22, 1920(1920-05-22) (aged 57) New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Playwright, Actor
Years active	1880s–1920
Spouses	Marylee Withers Cole (m. 1879) Bertha Belle Westbrook (m. 1889) Marcella Frances Russell Timer (m. 1916)
Children	Wallace Reid
Relatives	Wallace Reid Jr. (grandson)

James Halleck Reid (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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Biography

Born in 1863, 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. Many of his plays saw Broadway openings.^[1] In 1912, Reid was appointed Censor to the Universal Film Corporation.^[2]

Reid was at one time said to be actually Harry Preston and that he had served a prison sentence for an unspecified crime.^[3] 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.^[4]

His son Wallace Reid became an actor who starred in many films of Hollywood's silent era.^{[citation needed]}

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)^[5]^[6]
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)

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

References

^ Hal Reid(as James Halleck Reid) at Internet Broadway Database (IBDb.com)
^ Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912–76 volume 4 Q-Z page 2,008 compiled from editions originally published annually by John Parker; this 1976 and final version by Gale Research Company
^ The Oxford Companion to the American Theatre, 2nd edition p.570 by Gerald Bordman c.1992
^ The Unburied Past: Resurrecting the Leo Frank Case A Conversation with Steve Oney (Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience; Youtube)
^ "Logan's Luck". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
^ Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916. Library of Congress. 1918. p. 1299.