Charles Reisner

Charles Francis 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 with Charlie Chaplin in A Dog's Life in 1918 and The Kid in 1921.

He directed Buster Keaton (Keaton also co-directed it with him) 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.

As actor

 * A Dog's Life (1918)
 * The Kid (1921)
 * The Pilgrim (1923)
 * Hollywood (1923)
 * Her Temporary Husband (1923)
 * Breaking Into Society (1923)
 * Fight and Win (1924)
 * A Self-Made Failure (1924)
 * Justice of the Far North (1925)

As director

 * The Man on the Box (1925)
 * Oh! What a Nurse! (1926)
 * The Better 'Ole (1926)
 * What Every Girl Should Know (1927)
 * The Missing Link (1927)
 * The Fortune Hunter (1927)
 * Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
 * Fools for Luck (1928)
 * Brotherly Love (1928)
 * China Bound (1929)
 * Noisy Neighbors (1929)
 * The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
 * Chasing Rainbows (1930)
 * Caught Short (1930)
 * Love in the Rough (1930)
 * The March of Time (1930)
 * Reducing (1931)
 * Stepping Out (1931)
 * Politics (1931)
 * Flying High (1931)
 * Divorce in the Family (1932)
 * The Chief (1933)
 * Whistling in the Dark (1933)
 * You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
 * The Show-Off (1934)
 * Student Tour (1934)
 * The Winning Ticket (1935)
 * It's in the Air (1935)
 * Everybody Dance (1936)
 * Murder Goes to College (1937)
 * Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
 * Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
 * Winter Carnival (1939)
 * The Big Store (1941)
 * This Time for Keeps (1942)
 * Harrigan's Kid (1943)
 * Meet the People (1943)
 * Lost in a Harem (1944)
 * In This Corner (1948)
 * The Cobra Strikes (1948)
 * The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)