Charles Reisner


Charles Francis 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.

Filmography

As actor

  • A Dog's Life
  • The Kid
  • The Pilgrim
  • Hollywood
  • Her Temporary Husband
  • Breaking Into Society
  • Fight and Win
  • A Self-Made Failure
  • ''Justice of the Far North''

    As director

  • The Man on the Box
  • Oh! What a Nurse!
  • The Better 'Ole
  • What Every Girl Should Know
  • The Missing Link
  • The Fortune Hunter
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.
  • Fools for Luck
  • Brotherly Love
  • China Bound
  • Noisy Neighbors
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  • Chasing Rainbows
  • Caught Short
  • Love in the Rough
  • The March of Time
  • Reducing
  • Stepping Out
  • Politics
  • Flying High
  • Divorce in the Family
  • The Chief
  • Whistling in the Dark
  • You Can't Buy Everything
  • The Show-Off
  • Student Tour
  • The Winning Ticket
  • It's in the Air
  • Everybody Dance
  • Murder Goes to College
  • Sophie Lang Goes West
  • Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
  • Winter Carnival
  • The Big Store
  • This Time for Keeps
  • Harrigan's Kid
  • Meet the People
  • Lost in a Harem
  • In This Corner
  • The Cobra Strikes
  • ''The Traveling Saleswoman''