Hal Reid

James Halleck Reid in Saint Omer, Indiana, and raised in Cedarville, Ohio, Reid was the son of dentist Hugh McMillan Reid and America Elizabeth Truitt.

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

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

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

Selected plays

At Cripple Creek A Mother's Love (1903) In Convict Stripes Knobs o'Tennessee (1899) A Working Girl's Wrong (1903) 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