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Dean Riesner

Dean Riesner
  • Name: Dean Riesner
  • Birthday: 1918-11-03
  • Also known as: Dinky Dean,Dink Dean,Dean Franklin,Charles Reisner Jr.,Dean Reisner,Dinky Reisner,Dean E. Riesner
  • Place of birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
  • Popularity: 4.432
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 of real birds, costumed as humans, acting on the... Read More

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Title Release date
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'   as  Self 2001-09-18
The Chaplin Revue   as  Various (archive footage) 1959-09-01
Gunfire   as  Outlaw Mack 1950-08-12
The Traveling Saleswoman   as  Tom 1950-02-15
Assigned to Danger   as  Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited) 1948-05-19
The Cobra Strikes   as  Detective Brody 1948-04-24
Everybody Dance   as  Tommy Spurgeon 1936-09-06
It's in the Air   as  Brave (uncredited) 1935-10-10
Hollywood   as  Dean Riesner 1923-08-19
The Pilgrim   as  Little Boy 1923-02-19
Grief 1921-05-01
Peck's Bad Boy 1921-04-21