
Frank Reicher
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 2, 1875
- Died
- January 19, 1965 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Biography
Frank Reicher (December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong. Reicher made his Broadway debut the year he came to America playing Lord Tarquin in Harrison Fiske's production of Becky Sharp, a comedy by Langdon Mitchell based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. His early career was spent in legitimate theater on and off Broadway. He was head of the Brooklyn Stock Company when Jacob P. Adler performed The Merchant of Venice in Yiddish while the rest of the cast remained in English. Reicher was for a number of years affiliated with the Little Theatre on West Forty-Fourth Street as an actor and manager and would remain active on Broadway as actor, director or producer well into the 1920s. On stage, Reicher starred in such plays as the first Broadway production of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight (as the cashier), and the original production of Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (in the title role). Frank Reicher is probably more familiar to modern audiences as a supporting character actor in films. He began his cinema career with an uncredited role in the 1915 film The Case for Becky and would go on to work in over two hundred motion pictures. He is probably best remembered for playing the character of Captain Englehorn in King Kong and The Son of Kong, and for his work in such films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). His last Hollywood role was in the very first theatrical Superman movie, Superman and the Mole Men, in 1951. Frank Reicher died at a hospital in Inglewood, California, aged 89. He was survived by his sister and a brother. His interment was at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
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Filmography

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Adventures of Superman
TV · 1 ep

Superman and the Mole Men
Movie · as Hospital Superintendent

The Lady and the Bandit
Movie · as Count Eckhardt

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Movie · as Darius 'Doc' Green

Samson and Delilah
Movie · as Village Barber

Barbary Pirate
Movie · as Cathcart

Carson City Raiders
Movie · as Razor the Barber

The Gallant Blade
Movie · as Major

I, Jane Doe
Movie · as Doctor

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Movie · as Dr. MacKenzie

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie · as Maasdam

Violence
Movie · as Pop, apartment concierge

Escape Me Never
Movie · as The Minister

Yankee Fakir
Movie · as H.W. Randall

Monsieur Verdoux
Movie · as Doctor (uncredited)

Home in Oklahoma
Movie · as Jason Cragmyle

The Shadow Returns
Movie · as Michael Hasdon

Sister Kenny
Movie · as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)

A Guy Could Change
Movie · as Doctor

My Pal Trigger
Movie · as Ellis (uncredited)

The Strange Mr. Gregory
Movie · as William Riker, the Butler

The Jade Mask
Movie · as Harper

The Tiger Woman
Movie · as Coroner

Voice of the Whistler
Movie · as Dr. Rose (uncredited)

Phantoms, Inc.
Movie · as Philip Kenneson, Sr.

A Medal for Benny
Movie · as Father Bly (uncredited)
Blonde Ransom
Movie · as Judge

The Mummy's Ghost
Movie · as Prof. Matthew Norman

The Big Bonanza
Movie · as Dr. Ballou

Gildersleeve's Ghost
Movie · as Dr. Wells

House of Frankenstein
Movie · as Frederick Ullman

Address Unknown
Movie · as Professor Schmidt

Captain America
Movie · as Lyman

The Conspirators
Movie · as Casino Attendant (uncredited)

Plan for Destruction
Movie · as Karl Ernst Haushofer

Tornado
Movie · as Linden, Sr.

Above Suspicion
Movie · as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)

Background to Danger
Movie · as Rudick (uncredited)

Mission to Moscow
Movie · as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)

Bomber's Moon
Movie · as Dr. Hartman

Yanks Ahoy
Movie · as German Soldier (uncredited)

Watch on the Rhine
Movie · as Admiral (uncredited)

Scattergood Survives a Murder
Movie · as Thaddeus Quentin

To Be or Not to Be
Movie · as Polish Official (uncredited)

Nazi Agent
Movie · as Fritz

Night Monster
Movie · as Dr. Timmons

Secret Enemies
Movie · as Henry Bremmer

The Mystery of Marie Roget
Movie · as Magistrate

Beyond the Blue Horizon
Movie · as Sneath

The Gay Sisters
Movie · as Dr. Thomas Bigelow

The Mummy's Tomb
Movie · as Professor Matthew Norman

Dangerously They Live
Movie · as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler

Shining Victory
Movie · as Dr. Esterhazy

The Nurse's Secret
Movie · as Wiley Henderson

Underground
Movie · as Professor Baumer

Four Mothers
Movie · as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)

They Dare Not Love
Movie · as Captain

Flight from Destiny
Movie · as Edvaard Kreindling

One Foot in Heaven
Movie · as Board Member (uncredited)

The Face Behind the Mask
Movie · as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)

Dr. Cyclops
Movie · as Prof. Kendall

Sky Murder
Movie · as Dr. Crattan

The Lady in Question
Movie · as President

Typhoon
Movie · as Doctor

The Man I Married
Movie · as Friehof

All This, and Heaven Too
Movie · as Police Official (uncredited)

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie · as Old Man

South to Karanga
Movie · as Dr. Greenleaf

South of the Border
Movie · as Don Diego Mendoza

The Magnificent Fraud
Movie · as Mendietta Garcia

Sons of Liberty
Movie · as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)

The Escape
Movie · as Dr. Shumaker

Devil's Island
Movie · as President of Assize Court

Never Say Die
Movie · as Man in Charge of Duel

Juarez
Movie · as Duc de Morny (uncredited)

Everything Happens at Night
Movie · as Pharmacist

Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie · as Baron von Bissing

Ninotchka
Movie · as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)

Society Smugglers
Movie · as Jones

Sabotage
Movie · as (uncredited)

Woman Doctor
Movie · as Dr. Mathews

Mystery of the White Room
Movie · as Dr. Amos Thornton

Our Neighbors - The Carters
Movie · as Dr. Proser

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie · as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)

Letter of Introduction
Movie · as Second Doctor (uncredited)

Torchy Gets Her Man
Movie · as The Professor - Henchman

The Girl Downstairs
Movie · as Police Official (uncredited)

Prison Nurse
Movie · as Doctor Hartman

City Streets
Movie · as Dr. Ferenc Waller

I'll Give a Million
Movie · as Prefect of Police

Rascals
Movie · as Dr. C.M. Garvey

Suez
Movie · as General Changarnier

Night Key
Movie · as Carl - gang engineer

Stage Door
Movie · as Stage Director

The Emperor's Candlesticks
Movie · as Pavloff

Under Cover of Night
Movie · as Rudolph Brehmer

Stolen Holiday
Movie · as Rainer

Espionage
Movie · as Von Cram

Fit for a King
Movie · as Kurtz

Man Of The People
Movie · as Robinson

Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie · as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)

On Such a Night
Movie · as Horace Darwin

The Great O'Malley
Movie · as Dr. Larson

Prescription for Romance
Movie · as Jozsef

West Bound Limited
Movie · as Pop Martin

Midnight Madonna
Movie · as Vincent Long II

The Mighty Treve
Movie · as Eben McClelland

The Road Back
Movie · as Ernst's Father

Second Wife
Movie · as Headmaster

The Story of Louis Pasteur
Movie · as Dr. Pfeiffer

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Movie · as Dr. Coate

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Movie · as Henry Strand (uncredited)

The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie · as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)

Girls' Dormitory
Movie · as Dr. Hoffenreich

Along Came Love
Movie · as Planetarium Lecturer

Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Colonel Von Diegel

The Country Doctor
Movie · as Dr. Paul Luke

Under Two Flags
Movie · as French General

The Devil-Doll
Movie · as Doctor (uncredited)

Sutter's Gold
Movie · as Governor Felipe Vega

Laughing at Trouble
Movie · as Dr. Larson

Sinner Take All
Movie · as Theo Drukker (uncredited)

Star for a Night
Movie · as Doctor Heimkin

Anthony Adverse
Movie · as Coachman to Paris

Camille
Movie · as Creditor Agent (uncredited)

The Invisible Ray
Movie · as Professor Meiklejohn

Murder on a Bridle Path
Movie · as Dr. Peters

Charlie Chan in Egypt
Movie · as Dr. Jaipur

The Florentine Dagger
Movie · as Von Stein

Rendezvous
Movie · as Dr. R.A. Jackson

Life Returns
Movie · as Dr. James

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Movie · as 2nd Assistant Director

Kind Lady
Movie · as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)

A Dog of Flanders
Movie · as Herr Vanderkloot

Star of Midnight
Movie · as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)

Magnificent Obsession
Movie · as Dr. Rochard

The Great Impersonation
Movie · as Dr. Trenk

Straight from the Heart
Movie · as Coroner

The Casino Murder Case
Movie · as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)

Return of the Terror
Movie · as Franz Reinhardt

Men in White
Movie · as Doctor (uncredited)

Journal of a Crime
Movie · as Herr Winterstein

The Fountain
Movie · as Doctor

The Case of the Howling Dog
Movie · as Dr. Carl Cooper

I Am a Thief
Movie · as Max Bolen

British Agent
Movie · as Mr. X

Mills of the Gods
Movie · as Barrett

Hi, Nellie!
Movie · as Danny

Secret of the Chateau
Movie · as Auctioneer

No Greater Glory
Movie · as Doctor

The Countess of Monte Cristo
Movie · as Police Commissioner

Let's Talk It Over
Movie · as Richards

The Line-Up
Movie · as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)

The Son of Kong
Movie · as Captain Englehorn

Employees' Entrance
Movie · as Garfinkle

Before Dawn
Movie · as Joe Valerie

Topaze
Movie · as Dr. Stegg

Captured!
Movie · as Herr Hauptman

A Bedtime Story
Movie · as Aristide

Jennie Gerhardt
Movie · as Old Weaver (uncredited)

King Kong
Movie · as Captain Englehorn

Flesh
Movie · as Warden in Germany (uncredited)

The Crooked Circle
Movie · as Rankin

A Woman Commands
Movie · as The General

Scarlet Dawn
Movie · as Plotsky (Uncredited)

Gentleman's Fate
Movie · as Francesco Tomasulo

Suicide Fleet
Movie · as Holtzmann

Beyond Victory
Movie · as German Hospital Chief

The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie · as Arresting Detective (uncredited)

Mata Hari
Movie · as The Cook - Spy

Every Woman's Longing
Movie

The Grand Parade
Movie

Billy the Kid
Movie · as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)

Girl of the Port
Movie

Strictly Unconventional
Movie · as Duke of Brocklehurst

Mister Antonio
Movie · as Milton Jorny

His Captive Woman
Movie · as District Attorney

Paris Bound
Movie

Her Private Affair
Movie · as State's Attorney

Black Waters
Movie · as Randall

Strange Cargo
Movie · as Dr. Stecker

The Masks of the Devil
Movie · as Count Zellner

Four Sons
Movie · as The Schoolmaster

The Blue Danube
Movie · as Baron

Napoleon's Barber
Movie · as Napoleon's Barber

Beau Sabreur
Movie · as Gen. de Beaujolais

Sins of the Fathers
Movie · as The Eye Specialist

Someone to Love
Movie · as Simmons

Her Man o' War
Movie · as Professor Krantz

The Lambs' All-Star Gambol
Movie · as Self

