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name: "Danton Rissner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/danton-rissner"
fi1m_id: "danton-rissner"
imdb_id: "nm0728391"
tmdb_id: 1454811
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "27 March 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:59:29.454043+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Danton Rissner

## Identity

Danton Rissner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/danton-rissner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** danton-rissner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0728391
- **TMDB ID:** 1454811
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1454811

Producer. Born 27 March 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 27 March 1940, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- **Also known as:** Dan Rissner
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1454811

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Gone Baby Gone*](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) (79)

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## Biography

Danton Rissner is an American film producer and studio executive, also credited as Dan Rissner. Born on 27 March 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Lafayette High School in 1957 and attended Florida Southern College. He began his career at the Ashley Famous Agency, becoming head of its motion picture literary department, before joining Warner Bros. as vice president in charge of European production.

Rissner later held executive roles at United Artists and 20th Century Fox. His producing credits include *Up the Academy* (1980), *A Summer Story* (1988), *Backfire* (1987), *School Ties* (1992) and *Gone Baby Gone* (2007); he was also executive producer on *Edge of Darkness* (2010).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), Fi1m 79, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md)
- *A Summer Story* (1988), Producer
- *Backfire* (1988), Producer
- *Up the Academy* (1980), Producer

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