Wallace Reid Jr.

William Wallace Reid Jr. was an American actor.

Life and career

Reid's father was actor Wallace Reid Sr. His mother, Dorothy Davenport, and his grandmother, Alice Davenport, were actresses.
By the time he was 15 years old, Reid was interested in automobiles. When he came home from school he regularly changed clothes and began working on a four-cylinder racing car that he and a friend were building by using parts from old cars. In 1936 he served a 15-day jail sentence for reckless driving.
Reid's entry into the film industry came when he worked for independent producer Willis Kent.
He appeared in 10 films, later becoming an architect. He died at age 72 when his home-built Rutan Long-EZ airplane crashed into Santa Monica Bay, near his home, during heavy fog.