Dean Riesner

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Dean Riesner (November 3, 1918 – August 18, 2002)^[1] was an American film and television writer.

Biography

Riesner was born in New Rochelle, New York. His father,

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

Riesner continued to write into the 1980s, but most of his work from that period went uncredited. These films include Das Boot, The Sting II, Blue Thunder and Starman.^{[citation needed]} He is the credited writer for Fatal Beauty.

Riesner married actress Maila Nurmi, better known as the horror hostess Vampira, in 1949. They divorced in the 1950s. Riesner died in 2002 of natural causes in Encino, California.

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