Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-11-03 (84 years old)
Deathday
2002-08-18
Place of Birth
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Also known As
Dinky Dean
Dink Dean
Dean Franklin
Charles Reisner Jr.
Dean Reisner
Dinky Reisner
Dean E. Riesner
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...
1923
as Dean Riesner
1923
as Little Boy
1950
as Tom
1959
as Various (archive footage)
1921
1935
as Brave (uncredited)
1950
as Outlaw Mack
1948
as Detective Brody
1936
as Tommy Spurgeon
1948
as Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited)
1921
1929
as Cadet (uncredited)
1971
as Screenplay
1981
as Screenplay
1976
as Screenplay
1968
as Screenplay
1973
as Screenplay
1983
as Writer
1948
as Screenplay
1948
as Director
1963
as Writer
1967
as Teleplay
1970
as Writer
1987
as Screenplay
1957
as Writer
1940
as Screenplay
1970
as Teleplay
1976
as Writer
1950
as Writer
1983
as Writer
1958
as Writer
1942
1951
as Screenplay
1950
as Dialogue Coach
1971
as Screenplay
1940
as Additional Writing
1954
1956
as Writer
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