Dean Riesner: Dean Riesner. Writer: Dirty Harry. At the age of five Dean Riesner was a child actor (aka "Dinky Dean") in films such as The Pilgrim (1923) with Charles Chaplin. Dean's father, writer/director Charles Reisner, worked with and was friends with Chaplin and Buster Keaton, giving young Dean a foot in the door to a film career. Dean would have continued as a child actor had his mother not told his father,...
Known For: Dirty Harry (Writer), Play Misty for Me (Writer), The Enforcer (Writer), The Outer Limits (Writer)