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

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