Charles Reisner
Charles Reisner 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 in Steamboat Bill, Jr.. 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, the Marx Brothers' last film for MGM.
Reisner died of a heart attack in La Jolla, California in 1962 at the age of 75.Selected filmography
As actor
- A Dog's Life
- The Kid
- The Pilgrim
- Her Temporary Husband
- Breaking Into Society
- A Self-Made Failure
- Justice of the Far North
As director
- A Champion Loser
- So Long Sultan
- The Man on the Box
- The Better 'Ole
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- Brotherly Love
- China Bound
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Chasing Rainbows
- The March of Time
- Reducing
- Stepping Out
- Politics
- Flying High
- You Can't Buy Everything
- The Winning Ticket
- Everybody Dance
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- The Big Store
- Lost in a Harem
- In This Corner
- The Cobra Strikes
- The Traveling Saleswoman''
