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 occasionally contributed to feature films like The Helen Morgan Story. In 1968 he landed a job working on the Clint Eastwood action film Coogan's Bluff, and this in turn would lead to him writing several other Eastwood features throughout the 1970s. Riesner helped pen the screenplays for two Eastwood films in 1971, Play Misty for Me and the original Dirty Harry. In 1973 he provided an uncredited rewrite for High Plains Drifter, and in 1976 he was one of the writers to draft The Enforcer, the third Dirty Harry thriller. That same year he provided the teleplay for NBC's highly rated miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, starring Nick Nolte. In 1979 he wrote an early draft screenplay for The Godfather Part III, but his script was discarded when Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo finally agreed to collaborate on a third entry in the series.
Riesner continued to write into the 1980s, though most of his work from that period went uncredited. Those films include Das Boot, The Sting II, and Starman.
Riesner died in 2002 of natural causes. He had been married to actress Maila Nurmi, better known as the horror hostess Vampira.
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Filmes (40)
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
2001 · Self
Fatal Beauty
1987 · Screenplay
Sudden Impact
1983 · Writer
The Sting II
1983 · Writer
Das Boot
1981 · Screenplay
The Enforcer
1976 · Screenplay
The Keegans
1976 · Writer
Charley Varrick
1973 · Screenplay
Dirty Harry
1971 · Screenplay
Play Misty for Me
1971 · Screenplay
The Intruders
1970 · Teleplay
Lost Flight
1970 · Writer
Coogan's Bluff
1968 · Screenplay
Stranger on the Run
1967 · Teleplay
The Man from Galveston
1963 · Writer
The Chaplin Revue
1959 · Various (archive footage)
Paris Holiday
1958 · Writer
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Writer
The Travellers
1957 · Writer
The Big Slide
1956 · Writer
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954 · Story
Skipalong Rosenbloom
1951 · Screenplay
Gunfire
1950 · Outlaw Mack
I Shot Billy the Kid
1950 · Dialogue Coach
Operation Haylift
1950 · Writer
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950 · Tom
Assigned to Danger
1948 · Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited)
The Cobra Strikes
1948 · Detective Brody
Bill and Coo
1948 · Director, Screenplay
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
1942 · Story
A Fugitive from Justice
1940 · Additional Writing
The Fighting 69th
1940 · Screenplay
Everybody Dance
1936 · Tommy Spurgeon
It's in the Air
1935 · Brave (uncredited)
Square Shoulders
1929 · Cadet (uncredited)
A Prince of a King
1923 · Gigi, the Prince
Hollywood
1923 · Dean Riesner
The Pilgrim
1923 · Little Boy
Grief
1921
Peck's Bad Boy
1921
Séries (25)
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1987
Das Boot
1985 · Screenplay
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976 · Teleplay, Writer
Rich Man, Poor Man
1976 · Writer, Teleplay
Vanished
1971 · Teleplay, Creator
Lancer
1968 · Teleplay, Creator
Ironside
1967 · Story
The Long, Hot Summer
1965 · Writer, Creator
12 O'Clock High
1964 · Writer
The Outer Limits
1963 · Writer
The Virginian
1962 · Writer
Ben Casey
1961 · Writer
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · Writer
Surfside 6
1960 · Writer
Bourbon Street Beat
1959 · Writer
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959 · Writer
Rawhide
1959 · Writer
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Writer
Lawman
1958 · Writer
Bronco
1958 · Writer
The Restless Gun
1957 · Writer
The Thin Man
1957 · Writer
Sugarfoot
1957 · Writer
Conflict
1956 · Writer
Cheyenne
1955 · Writer