Deaths on September 24

Charles Reisner

Died on September 24, 1962

Charles Reisner, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)

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.

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French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
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Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
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The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
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Deaths on September 24

Charles Reisner

Died on September 24, 1962

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