Charles "Chuck" Riesner

Charles
Born: Mar 14, 1887
Minneapolis, MN
Career: 1918-1950
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Comedy
Musical
Biography by Hal Erickson
Already boasting experience as a prizefighter, vaudevillian, and legitimate stage entertainer, 29-year-old Chuck Reisner inaugurated his screen career as a comic and gag writer at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studio. At First National from 1918 through 1923, Reisner was a close associate of Charlie Chaplin, laboring as an assistant director and supporting player in such Chaplin films as The Kid (1921) and The Pilgrim (1923). Reisner's first feature film directorial credit was The Man in the Box (1925), starring Chaplin's brother, Sydney Chaplin. An A-to-Z comedy specialist, Reisner directed such top laughgetters as Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), Laurel and Hardy in Hollywood Revue of 1929, Jack Benny in It's in the Air (1935), Ed Wynn in The Chief (1933), the Marx Brothers in The Big Store (1941), and Abbott and Costello in Lost in a Harem (1944). He was also principal director for MGM's popular Marie Dressler/Polly Moran vehicles of the early '30s. Reisner's last theatrical feature was the Joan Davis slapstickfest The Travelling Saleswoman (1950); thereafter, he concentrated on television work. Charles Reisner was the father of actor/writer/director Dean Reisner, who was active at his father's "home" studio of MGM in the 1960s.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Train to Tombstone 1950 Director
Traveling Saleswoman 1950 Director
In This Corner 1948 Director
The Cobra Strikes 1948 Director
Bury Me Dead 1947 Producer
Railroaded 1947 Producer
Lost in a Harem 1944 Director
Meet the People 1944 Director
Harrigan's Kid 1943 Director
This Time for Keeps 1942 Director
The Big Store 1941 Director
Winter Carnival 1939 Director
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round 1937 Director
Murder Goes to College 1937 Director
Sophie Lang Goes West 1937 Director
Everybody Dance 1936 Director
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