Charles Reisner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Reisner

film director

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1887

Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 24-Sep-1962

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Charles Reisner (March 14, 1887 – September 24, 1962) 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 alongside Charlie Chaplin in A Dog's Life in 1918 and The Kid in 1921. He directed Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr.
(1928).
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 (1941), the Marx Brothers' last film for MGM. Reisner died of a heart attack in La Jolla, California in 1962, at the age of 75.