Dean Riesner

About

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...

Known for

IronsideSeries • 1967The VirginianSeries • 1962CheyenneSeries • 1955Ben CaseySeries • 1961RawhideSeries • 1959LawmanSeries • 1958The Outer LimitsSeries • 196377 Sunset StripSeries • 1958The Many Loves of Dobie GillisSeries • 1959Surfside 6Series • 196012 O'Clock HighSeries • 1964SugarfootSeries • 1957BroncoSeries • 1958LancerSeries • 1968The Thin ManSeries • 1957Das BootMovie • 1981Dirty HarryMovie • 1971Bourbon Street BeatSeries • 1959Rich Man, Poor ManSeries • 1976The Restless GunSeries • 1957The EnforcerMovie • 1976Play Misty for MeMovie • 1971Sudden ImpactMovie • 1983Coogan's BluffMovie • 1968