Dean Riesner Net Worth

Dean Riesner Net Worth is
$18 Million

Dean Riesner Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Dean Riesner (November 3, 1918, New Rochelle, New York – August 18, 2002, Encino, California) was a prolific American film and television writer.Riesner's father, Charles Reisner, was a German American silent film director, and Dean began acting in films at the age of five. His career at this young age ended because his mother wanted her son to have a real childhood. As an adult, his first job in films was as a co-writer of the 1939 Ronald Reagan movie Code of the Secret Service.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 Rawhide and the "Tourist Attraction" episode of The Outer Limits, although he occasionally contributed to feature films like The Helen Morgan Story. In 1968 he landed a job working on the Clint Eastwood action film Coogan's Bluff, and this in turn would lead to him writing several other Eastwood features throughout the 1970s. Riesner helped pen the screenplays for two Eastwood films in 1971, Play Misty for Me and the original Dirty Harry. In 1973 he provided an uncredited rewrite for High Plains Drifter, and in 1976 he was one of the writers to draft The Enforcer, the third Dirty Harry thriller. That same year he provided the teleplay for NBC's highly rated miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, starring Nick Nolte. In 1979 he wrote an early draft screenplay for The Godfather Part III, but his script was discarded when Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo finally agreed to collaborate on a third entry in the series.Riesner continued to write into the 1980s, though most of his work from that period went uncredited. Those films include Das Boot, The Sting II, and Starman.Riesner died in 2002 of natural causes. He had been married to actress Maila Nurmi, better known as the horror hostess Vampira.

Date Of BirthNovember 3, 1918
Died2002-08-18
Place Of BirthNew York City, New York, USA
ProfessionWriter, Actor, Miscellaneous Crew
SpouseMaila Nurmi
Star SignScorpio
#Fact
1A shy and reticent man, Riesner made only two notable public appearances in later years: a panel discussion of Buster Keaton held in Beverly Hills, California in 1995 conducted by Kevin Brownlow and a lengthy one-on-one interview as part of a Charlie Chaplin conference held in London, England in 2000 conducted by Jeffrey Vance.
2Dean Riesner wrote several autobiographical essays about his father and Charlie Chaplin with film historian Jeffrey Vance between 1995-2000. Only one essay--concerning his work with Chaplin on "The Pilgrim" (1923)--has been published.
3Son of director Charles Reisner.

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Enforcer1976screenplay
Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers1976TV Mini-Series teleplay - 4 episodes
The Keegans1976TV Movie as Dean E. Riesner
Rich Man, Poor Man1976TV Mini-Series teleplay - 9 episodes
Charley Varrick1973screenplay
High Plains Drifter1973uncredited
Dirty Harry1971screenplay
Play Misty for Me1971screenplay
Vanished1971TV Movie teleplay
The Intruders1970TV Movie teleplay
Lost Flight1970TV Movie written by
Coogan's Bluff1968screenplay
Lancer1968TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
Ironside1967TV Series story - 1 episode
Stranger on the Run1967TV Movie teleplay
The Road West1967TV Series written by - 1 episode
Ben CaseyTV Series writer - 1 episode, 1966 teleplay - 1 episode, 1964
The Long, Hot Summer1965TV Series teleplay - 3 episodes
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1965TV Series 1 episode
12 O'Clock High1964-1965TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Slattery's People1964-1965TV Series writer - 2 episodes
The Virginian1963-1964TV Series writer - 4 episodes
Rawhide1963-1964TV Series writer - 5 episodes
The Outer Limits1963TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Man from Galveston1963screenplay
The Many Loves of Dobie GillisTV Series written by - 10 episodes, 1959 - 1963 teleplay - 6 episodes, 1961 - 1962
77 Sunset StripTV Series 1 episode, 1960 teleplay - 1 episode, 1963 writer - 1 episode, 1961
The Dakotas1963TV Series writer - 2 episodes
G.E. TrueTV Series 1 episode, 1962 teleplay - 1 episode, 1962
Surfside 6TV Series 1 episode, 1962 teleplay - 1 episode, 1960
CheyenneTV Series written by - 5 episodes, 1956 - 1957 writer - 2 episodes, 1961 television story and teleplay - 1 episode, 1958 story - 1 episode, 1956 teleplay - 1 episode, 1955
Follow the Sun1961TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Case of the Dangerous Robin1961TV Series writer - 1 episode
LawmanTV Series writer - 4 episodes, 1958 - 1961 teleplay - 1 episode, 1959
Bonanza1960TV Series written by - 1 episode
Colt .451959-1960TV Series teleplay - 4 episodes
Shotgun Slade1960TV Series writer - 1 episode
BroncoTV Series writer - 2 episodes, 1958 - 1960 teleplay - 2 episodes, 1959
Bourbon Street BeatTV Series teleplay - 1 episode, 1960 writer - 1 episode, 1960
Bat Masterson1960TV Series written by - 1 episode
SugarfootTV Series writer - 3 episodes, 1959 - 1960 teleplay - 2 episodes, 1957
Tales of Wells Fargo1959TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Texan1959TV Series written by - 1 episode
Paris Holiday1958writer
U.S. Marshal1958TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
The Travellers1957
The Restless Gun1957TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
The Thin Man1957TV Series teleplay - 3 episodes
The Helen Morgan Story1957
Conflict1956TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
Playhouse 901956TV Series 1 episode
Ethel Barrymore Theater1956TV Series teleplay - 1 episode
So This Is HollywoodTV Series 2 episodes, 1955 teleplay - 1 episode, 1955
So You Want to Know Your Relatives1954Short story
Studio 57TV Series teleplay - 2 episodes, 1954 original story - 1 episode, 1954
So You Want to Go to a Night Club1954Short story
The Joe Palooka Story1954TV Series teleplay - 4 episodes
Schlitz PlayhouseTV Series teleplay - 1 episode, 1952 writer - 1 episode, 1952
Skipalong Rosenbloom1951screenplay
Operation Haylift1950
Bill and Coo1948screenplay
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die1942story - as Dean Franklin
A Fugitive from Justice1940contributing writer - uncredited
The Fighting 69th1940original screenplay
Code of the Secret Service1939original screen play - as Dean Franklin
Fatal Beauty1987screenplay
Starman1984uncredited
Sudden Impact1983uncredited
The Sting II1983uncredited
Blue Thunder1983uncredited
The High Country1981uncredited

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Long, Hot Summer1965TV Series executive story consultant - 5 episodes
The Thin Man1957-1958TV Series script consultant - 7 episodes
Skipalong Rosenbloom1951dialogue director
Train to Tombstone1950dialogue coach
Gunfire1950dialogue coach - as Dean Reisner
I Shot Billy the Kid1950dialogue coach - as Dean Reisner

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Mesa of Lost Women1953Aranya Henchman (as Dean Reisner)
Gunfire1950Outlaw Mack (as Dean Reisner)
Operation Haylift1950Lt. Richter (as Dink Dean)
Young Man with a Horn1950Joe (uncredited)
The Traveling Saleswoman1950Tom
Assigned to Danger1948Dr. Michael Kelly (uncredited)
The Cobra Strikes1948Detective Brody
Everybody Dance1936Tony Spurgeon (as Charles Reisner Jr.)
It's in the Air1935Brave (uncredited)
Square Shoulders1929Cadet (uncredited)
A Prince of a King1923Gigi, the Prince
The Pilgrim1923Little Boy (as Dinky Reisner)
A Ladies Man1922Short as Dinky Dean
Grief1921Short
Peck's Bad Boy1921as Dinky Dean

Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Bill and Coo1948

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Skipalong Rosenbloom1951lyrics: "Skip Along Maxie"

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'2001Video documentaryHimself
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow1987-1989TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Unknown Chaplin1983TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Hollywood1923Himself

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1976Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing in a Drama SeriesRich Man, Poor Man (1976)
1972EdgarEdgar Allan Poe AwardsBest Motion PictureDirty Harry (1971)
1972EdgarEdgar Allan Poe AwardsBest Television Feature or MiniseriesVanished (1971)
1971Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - AdaptationVanished (1971)
1966WGA Award (TV)Writers Guild of America, USAEpisodic Drama12 O'Clock High (1964)
1957WGA Award (TV)Writers Guild of America, USADrama, 60 Minutes or Longer in LengthConflict (1956)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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