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[Deathwatch] Dean Riesner, screenwriter, 83



'Dirty Harry' Scribe Riesner Dies
Wed Aug 28, 9:35 PM ET
By Doug Galloway 

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Hollywood screenwriter Dean Riesner, who shared
credits on two of the "Dirty Harry" movies and came up with the
immortal Clint Eastwood line "Go ahead, make my day," died Aug. 18 of
natural causes at his Encino home. He was 83. 

A one-time child actor, Riesner turned to screenwriting in the late
1930s with credits including the James Cagney starrer "The Fighting
69th," "Code of the Secret Service ( news - web sites)" and "A Fugitive