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Dean Riesner (1918–2002)

Writer | Actor | Miscellaneous Crew

At the age of five Dean Riesner was a child actor (aka "Dinky Dean") in films such as The Pilgrim with Charles Chaplin. Dean's father, writer/director Charles Reisner, worked with and was friends with Chaplin and Buster Keaton, giving young Dean a foot in the door to a film career. Dean would have continued as a child actor had his mother not told his father... See full bio »

Born:

Dean Franklin Riesner
in New York City, New York, USA

Died:

(age 83) in Encino, California, USA
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1987 Fatal Beauty (screenplay)
 
1984 Starman (uncredited)
 
1983 Sudden Impact (uncredited)
 
1983 The Sting II (uncredited)
 
1983 Blue Thunder (uncredited)
 
1981 The High Country (uncredited)
 
1976 The Enforcer (screenplay)
 
1976 Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV mini-series)
 
1976 The Keegans (TV movie) (as Dean E. Riesner)
 
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series)
– Part VIII: Chapters 11 and 12 (1976) (teleplay)
– Part VII: Chapter 10 (1976) (teleplay)
– Part VII: Chapter 9 (1976) (teleplay)
– Part VI: Chapter 8 (1976) (teleplay)
– Part V: Chapter 7 (1976) (teleplay)
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1973 Charley Varrick (screenplay)
 
1973 High Plains Drifter (uncredited)
 
1971 Dirty Harry (screenplay)
 
1971 Play Misty for Me (screenplay)
 
1971 Vanished (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1970 The Intruders (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1970 Lost Flight (TV movie) (written by)
 
1968 Coogan's Bluff (screenplay)
 
1968 Lancer (TV series)
– The High Riders (1968) (teleplay)
 
1967 Ironside (TV series)
– Girl in the Night (1967) (story)
 
1967 Stranger on the Run (TV movie)
 
1964-1966 Ben Casey (TV series)
– Then, Suddenly, Panic (1966) (writer)
– Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such (1964) (teleplay)
 
1965 The Long, Hot Summer (TV series)
– A Stranger to the House (1965) (teleplay)
– A Time for Living (1965) (teleplay)
– The Homecoming (1965) (teleplay)
 
1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series)
– Escape into Jeopardy (1965) (as Dean Reisner)
 
1964-1965 12 O'Clock High (TV series)
– End of the Line (1965) (writer)
– Interlude (1964) (writer)
 
1964-1965 Slattery's People (TV series)
– Question: Does Nero Still at Ringside Sit? (1965) (writer)
– Question: Remember the Dark Sins of Youth? (1964) (writer)
 
1963-1964 The Virginian (TV series)
– A Gallows for Sam Horn (1964) (writer)
– A Man Called Kane (1964) (writer)
– The Intruders (1964) (writer)
– A Portrait of Marie Valonne (1963) (writer)
 
1963-1964 Rawhide (TV series)
– Incident at Zebulon (1964) (writer)
– Incident of the Death Dancer (1963) (writer)
– Incident of the Red Wind (1963) (writer)
– Incident of the Black Ace (1963) (writer)
– Incident of the Pale Rider (1963) (writer)
 
1963 The Outer Limits (TV series)
– Tourist Attraction (1963) (written by)
 
1963 The Man from Galveston (writer)
 
1959-1963 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV series)
– The Call of the, Like, Wild (1963) (written by)
– Lassie, Get Lost (1963) (written by)
– Beethoven, Presley and Me (1963) (written by)
– Vocal Boy Makes Good (1963) (written by)
– Doctor Jekyll and Mister Gillis (1962) (written by)
See all 16 episodes »
 
1960-1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV series)
– Lady in the Sun (1963) (writer)
– Big Boy Blue (1961) (writer)
– The Laurel Canyon Caper (1960) (writer)
 
1963 The Dakotas (TV series)
– The Chooser of the Slain (1963) (writer)
– One Day in Vermillion (1963) (writer)
 
1962 G.E. True (TV series)
– The Amateurs (1962) (as Dean Reisner)
– The Handmade Private (1962) (teleplay)
 
1960-1962 Surfside 6 (TV series)
– Love Song for a Deadly Redhead (1962) (writer)
– The International Net (1960) (teleplay)
 
1955-1961 Cheyenne (TV series)
– The Brahma Bull (1961) (writer)
– Lone Patrol (1961) (writer)
– Noose at Noon (1958) (television story and teleplay)
– The Brand (1957) (written by)
– Johnny Bravo (1956) (story / written by)
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1961 The Case of the Dangerous Robin (TV series)
– Falling Star (1961) (writer)
 
1958-1961 Lawman (TV series)
– The Robbery (1961) (writer)
– The Hoax (1959) (writer)
– Lily (1959) (teleplay)
– Warpath (1959) (writer)
– The Deputy (1958) (writer)
 
1960 Bonanza (TV series)
– Showdown (1960) (writer)
 
1959-1960 Colt .45 (TV series)
– Attack (1960) (teleplay)
– Chain of Command (1960) (teleplay)
– The Hothead (1959) (teleplay)
– The Sanctuary (1959) (teleplay)
 
1960 Shotgun Slade (TV series)
– The Fabulous Fiddle (1960) (writer)
 
1958-1960 Bronco (TV series)
– Tangled Trail (1960) (writer)
– Red Water North (1959) (teleplay)
– The Baron of Broken Lance (1959) (writer)
– Four Guns and a Prayer (1958) (writer)
 
1960 Bourbon Street Beat (TV series)
– Swamp Fire (1960) (teleplay)
– Neon Nightmare (1960) (writer)
 
1960 Bat Masterson (TV series)
– Three Bullets for Bat (1960) (written by)
 
1957-1960 Sugarfoot (TV series)
– Fernando (1960) (writer)
– MacBrewster the Bold (1959) (writer)
– The Wild Bunch (1959) (writer)
– The Stallion Trail (1957) (writer)
– Reluctant Hero (1957) (teleplay)
 
1959 The Texan (TV series)
– Blood Money (1959) (written by)
 
1958 Paris Holiday (writer)
 
1957 The Restless Gun (TV series)
– The New Sheriff (1957) (script)
 
1957 The Thin Man (TV series)
– Fatal Cliche (1957) (teleplay)
 
1957 The Helen Morgan Story
 
1957 The Travellers
 
1956 Conflict (TV series)
– Silent Journey (1956) (teleplay)
 
1956 Ethel Barrymore Theater (TV series)
– Dear Miss Lovelace (1956) (teleplay)
 
1956 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
– The Big Slide (1956) (as Dean Reisner)
 
1955 So This Is Hollywood (TV series)
– The Achilles Heel of Pudge Heffledorfer (1955) (as Dean Reisner)
– Mother Dodd Came to Town (1955) (as Dean Reisner)
 
1954 So You Want to Know Your Relatives (short) (story)
 
1954 So You Want to Go to a Night Club (short) (story)
 
1954 The Joe Palooka Story (TV series)
– A Turkey for Terry (1954) (teleplay)
 
1952 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
– This Plane for Hire (1952) (teleplay)
– Port of Call (1952) (writer)
 
1951 Skipalong Rosenbloom
 
1950 Operation Haylift
 
1948 Bill and Coo (screenplay)
 
1942 Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (story / as Dean Franklin)
 
1940 A Fugitive from Justice (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1940 The Fighting 69th (original screen play / as Dean Franklin)
 
1939 Code of the Secret Service (original screen play / as Dean Franklin)
 
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1953 Mesa of Lost Women
Aranya Henchman (as Dean Reisner)
 
1950 Gunfire
Outlaw Mack (as Dean Reisner)
 
1950 Operation Haylift
Lt. Richter (as Dink Dean)
 
1950 Young Man with a Horn
Joe (uncredited)
 
1950 The Traveling Saleswoman
Tom
 
1948 Assigned to Danger
Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited)
 
1948 The Cobra Strikes
Detective Brody
 
1935 It's in the Air
Brave (uncredited)
 
1923 A Prince of a King
Gigi, the Prince
 
1923 The Pilgrim (short)
Little Boy (as Dinky Reisner)
 
1922 A Ladies Man (short) (as Dinky Dean)
 
1921 Peck's Bad Boy (as Dinky Dean)
 
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1965 The Long, Hot Summer (TV series) (executive story consultant - 5 episodes)
– No Hiding Place (1965) (executive story consultant)
– The Twisted Image: Part 2 (1965) (executive story consultant)
– The Twisted Image: Part 1 (1965) (executive story consultant)
– A Stranger to the House (1965) (executive story consultant)
– A Time for Living (1965) (executive story consultant)
 
1951 Skipalong Rosenbloom (dialogue director)
 
1950 Train to Tombstone (dialogue coach)
 
1950 Gunfire (dialogue coach - as Dean Reisner)
 
1950 I Shot Billy the Kid (dialogue coach - as Dean Reisner)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (1 title)
1951 Skipalong Rosenbloom (lyrics: "Skip Along Maxie")
 
Show ShowDirector (1 title)
1948 Bill and Coo
 
Show ShowSelf (3 titles)
1987 Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1983 Unknown Chaplin (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– The Great Director (1983) … Himself (also archive footage)
 
1923 Hollywood
Himself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1969) Unsold pilot: Wrote the teleplay for a pilot called "Shadow Man" about a man who has plastic surgery and assumes the identity of a multi-billionaire to do good for humanity.

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Alternate Names:

Dinky Dean | Dink Dean | Dean Franklin | Dean Reisner | Dinky Reisner | Dean E. Riesner
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Trivia:

Son of director Charles Reisner. See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio