At the age of five Dean Riesner was a child actor (Dinky Dean) in films such as The Pilgrim with Charles Chaplin. Dean's father, Charles Reisner, directed silent films, which granted the young Dean into the homes of both Chaplin and Buster Keaton.Dean would have continued as a child actor had his mother not told his father, Let the boy have his childhood. Years later when Dean reached adulthood his father asked him what did he want to do, act, direct, write, etc?Dean chose writing and thus b ...[Read Story]