Charles Reisner

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Charles Reisner
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Other names	Charles Riesner
Years active	1916–1950
Children	Dean Riesner

Charles Francis Reisner (March 14, 1887 – September 24, 1962) was an American film director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

The German-American directed over 60 films between 1920 and 1950 and acted in over 20 films between 1916 and 1929. He starred with Charlie Chaplin in A Dog's Life in 1918 and The Kid in 1921.

He directed Buster Keaton (Keaton also co-directed it with him) in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). During the late 1920s, through the 1940s, Reisner was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1930, he directed Chasing Rainbows, a musical which starred Bessie Love and Charles King. He directed The Big Store (1941), the Marx Brothers' last film for MGM.

Reisner died of a heart attack in

in 1962 at the age of 75.

Filmography

As actor

• A Dog's Life (1918)
• The Kid (1921)
• The Pilgrim (1923)
• Hollywood (1923)
• Her Temporary Husband (1923)
• Breaking Into Society (1923)
• Fight and Win (1924)
• A Self-Made Failure (1924)
• Justice of the Far North (1925)

As director

External links

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