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Charles Reisner | |
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Born | Charles Francis Reisner March 14, 1887 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
Died | September 24, 1962 75) La Jolla, California, U.S. | (aged
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 La Jolla, California in 1962 at the age of 75.
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