- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- November 3, 1918
- Place of Birth
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
- Died
- August 18, 2002
Dean 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 of real birds, costumed as humans, acting on the world's smallest film set. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Riesner worked primarily in television, including writing for Rawhide and the "Tourist Attraction" episode of The Outer Limits, although he oc…
Filmography
moviePlay It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
2001 · Self
movieFatal Beauty
1987 · Screenplay
tvBuster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1987
tvDas Boot
1985 · Screenplay
movieSudden Impact
1983 · Writer
movieThe Sting II
1983 · Writer
movieDas Boot
1981 · Screenplay
movieThe Enforcer
1976 · Screenplay
tvArthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976 · Teleplay, Writer
movieThe Keegans
1976 · Writer
tvRich Man, Poor Man
1976 · Writer, Teleplay
movieCharley Varrick
1973 · Screenplay
movieDirty Harry
1971 · Screenplay
moviePlay Misty for Me
1971 · Screenplay
tvVanished
1971 · Teleplay, Creator
movieThe Intruders
1970 · Teleplay
movieLost Flight
1970 · Writer
movieCoogan's Bluff
1968 · Screenplay
tvLancer
1968 · Writer, Creator
movieStranger on the Run
1967 · Teleplay
tvIronside
1967 · Writer
The Long, Hot Summer
tvThe Long, Hot Summer
1965 · Writer, Creator
tv12 O'Clock High
1964 · Writer
movieThe Man from Galveston
1963 · Writer
tvThe Outer Limits
1963 · Writer
tvThe Virginian
1962 · Writer
tvBen Casey
1961 · Writer
tvThe Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · Writer
tvSurfside 6
1960 · Writer
tvBourbon Street Beat
1959 · Writer
tvThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959 · Writer
movieThe Chaplin Revue
1959 · Various (archive footage)
tvRawhide
1959 · Writer
tv77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Writer
tvLawman
1958 · Writer
tvBronco
1958 · Writer
movieParis Holiday
1958 · Writer
movieThe Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Writer
tvThe Restless Gun
1957 · Writer
tvThe Thin Man
1957 · Writer
tvSugarfoot
1957 · Writer
movieThe Big Slide
1956 · Writer
Conflict
tvConflict
1956 · Writer
tvCheyenne
1955 · Writer
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
movieSo You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954 · Story
movieSkipalong Rosenbloom
1951 · Screenplay
movieGunfire
1950 · Outlaw Mack
movieI Shot Billy the Kid
1950 · Dialogue Coach
movieOperation Haylift
1950 · Writer
movieThe Traveling Saleswoman
1950 · Tom
movieAssigned to Danger
1948 · Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited)
movieThe Cobra Strikes
1948 · Detective Brody
movieBill and Coo
1948 · Screenplay, Director
movieTombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
1942 · Story
movieA Fugitive from Justice
1940 · Additional Writing
movieThe Fighting 69th
1940 · Screenplay
movieEverybody Dance
1936 · Tommy Spurgeon
movieIt's in the Air
1935 · Brave (uncredited)
movieSquare Shoulders
1929 · Cadet (uncredited)
movieA Prince of a King
1923 · Gigi, the Prince
movieHollywood
1923 · Dean Riesner
movieThe Pilgrim
1923 · Little Boy
movieGrief
1921
moviePeck's Bad Boy
1921