Dean Riesner

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-11-03 (84 years old)

Deathday

2002-08-18

Place of Birth

New Rochelle, New York, USA

Dean Riesner

Biography

Dean Riesner (November 3, 1918, New Rochelle, New York – August 18, 2002, Encino, California) was an American film and television writer. Riesner's father, Charles Reisner, was a German American silent film director, and Dean began acting in films at the age of five as "Dinky Dean". His most notable role was in Charlie Chaplin's 1923 film The Pilgrim. His career at this young age ended because his mother wanted her son to have a real childhood. As an adult, his first job in films was as a co-writer of the 1939 Ronald Reagan movie Code of the Secret Service. Riesner won an Oscar for directing Bill and Coo (1948), a feature film with a cast o...

Acting

1923

Hollywood

as Dean Riesner

1923

The Pilgrim

as Little Boy

1959

The Chaplin Revue

as Various (archive footage)

1935

It's in the Air

as Brave (uncredited)

1950

Gunfire

as Outlaw Mack

1948

The Cobra Strikes

as Detective Brody

1936

Everybody Dance

as Tommy Spurgeon

1948

Assigned to Danger

as Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited)

1921

1929

Square Shoulders

as Cadet (uncredited)

Production

1971

Dirty Harry

as Screenplay

1981

Das Boot

as Screenplay

1976

The Enforcer

as Screenplay

1968

Coogan's Bluff

as Screenplay

1973

Charley Varrick

as Screenplay

1983

The Sting II

as Writer

1948

Bill and Coo

as Screenplay

1948

Bill and Coo

as Director

1967

1970

Lost Flight

as Writer

1987

Fatal Beauty

as Screenplay

1940

The Fighting 69th

as Screenplay

1970

The Intruders

as Teleplay

1976

The Keegans

as Writer

1950

1983

Sudden Impact

as Writer

1958

Paris Holiday

as Writer

1951

1950

I Shot Billy the Kid

as Dialogue Coach

1971

Play Misty for Me

as Screenplay

1940

A Fugitive from Justice

as Additional Writing

1956

The Big Slide

as Writer

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