Frank Reicher
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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.
Known for
Credits
King Kong (1933)
as Captain Englehorn
Samson and Delilah (1949)
as Village Barber
Ninotchka (1939)
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Juarez (1939)
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
as Polish Official (uncredited)
Before Dawn (1933)
as Joe Valerie
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Camille (1936)
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Mata Hari (1931)
as The Cook - Spy
Hi, Nellie! (1934)
as Danny
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
as Maasdam
The Son of Kong (1933)
as Captain Englehorn
British Agent (1934)
as Mr. X
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
as Pavloff
Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
as Hospital Superintendent
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
as Police Official (uncredited)
Mystery of the White Room (1939)
as Dr. Amos Thornton
House of Frankenstein (1944)
as Frederick Ullman
Dangerously They Live (1941)
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Stage Door (1937)
as Stage Director
Sister Kenny (1946)
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc. (1945)
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
The Devil-Doll (1936)
as Doctor (uncredited)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
as Magistrate
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
as Darius 'Doc' Green
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
as Admiral (uncredited)
The Lambs' All-Star Gambol (1914)
as Self
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
as Baron von Bissing
Captain America (1944)
as Lyman
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
as Dr. Jaipur
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
as Professor Matthew Norman
Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
as The Professor - Henchman
Voice of the Whistler (1945)
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
The Great Impersonation (1935)
as Dr. Trenk
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
as Prof. Matthew Norman
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
The Invisible Ray (1936)
as Professor Meiklejohn
Devil's Island (1939)
as President of Assize Court
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
as Old Man
City Streets (1938)
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
I, Jane Doe (1948)
as Doctor
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
as Dr. Pfeiffer
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
Sky Murder (1940)
as Dr. Crattan
Anthony Adverse (1936)
as Coachman to Paris
Girls' Dormitory (1936)
as Dr. Hoffenreich
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
They Dare Not Love (1941)
as Captain
Fit for a King (1937)
as Kurtz
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Men in White (1934)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
I Am a Thief (1934)
as Max Bolen
Napoleon's Barber (1928)
as Napoleon's Barber
Man Of The People (1937)
as Robinson
The Casino Murder Case (1935)
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Four Sons (1928)
as The Schoolmaster
No Greater Glory (1934)
as Doctor
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
as Board Member (uncredited)
The Lady in Question (1940)
as President
The Lady and the Bandit (1951)
as Count Eckhardt
Till We Meet Again (1936)
as Colonel Von Diegel
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
as Dr. Carl Cooper
The Great O'Malley (1937)
as Dr. Larson
Someone to Love (1928)
as Simmons
Escape Me Never (1947)
as The Minister
The Line-Up (1934)
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
Espionage (1937)
as Von Cram
The Big Bonanza (1944)
as Dr. Ballou
Under Cover of Night (1937)
as Rudolph Brehmer
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
as 2nd Assistant Director
Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)
as Thaddeus Quentin
Nazi Agent (1942)
as Fritz
Journal of a Crime (1934)
as Herr Winterstein
The Girl Downstairs (1938)
as Police Official (uncredited)
A Medal for Benny (1945)
as Father Bly (uncredited)
Flight from Destiny (1941)
as Edvaard Kreindling
The Gay Sisters (1942)
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
as Dr. Peters
Mills of the Gods (1934)
as Barrett
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
as Prof. Kendall
Employees' Entrance (1933)
as Garfinkle
The Conspirators (1944)
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
The Man I Married (1940)
as Friehof
Underground (1941)
as Professor Baumer
Sons of Liberty (1939)
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
Girl of the Port (1930)
Actor
Letter of Introduction (1938)
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
The Florentine Dagger (1935)
as Von Stein
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
as Sneath
South of the Border (1939)
as Don Diego Mendoza
Magnificent Obsession (1935)
as Dr. Rochard
Under Two Flags (1936)
as French General
Prescription for Romance (1937)
as Jozsef
Life Returns (1935)
as Dr. James
Sabotage (1939)
as (uncredited)
Star of Midnight (1935)
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
The Road Back (1937)
as Ernst's Father
The Country Doctor (1936)
as Dr. Paul Luke
The Jade Mask (1945)
as Harper
Woman Doctor (1939)
as Dr. Mathews
Night Monster (1942)
as Dr. Timmons
Prison Nurse (1938)
as Doctor Hartman
Rendezvous (1935)
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
A Guy Could Change (1946)
as Doctor
Straight from the Heart (1935)
as Coroner
The Nurse's Secret (1941)
as Wiley Henderson
Background to Danger (1943)
as Rudick (uncredited)
Billy the Kid (1930)
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Scarlet Dawn (1932)
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
Suez (1938)
as General Changarnier
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948)
as Dr. MacKenzie
Return of the Terror (1934)
as Franz Reinhardt
I'll Give a Million (1938)
as Prefect of Police
The Mighty Treve (1937)
as Eben McClelland
Every Woman's Longing (1930)
Actor
A Dog of Flanders (1935)
as Herr Vanderkloot
Typhoon (1940)
as Doctor
Night Key (1937)
as Carl - gang engineer
Shining Victory (1941)
as Dr. Esterhazy
Carson City Raiders (1948)
as Razor the Barber
Secret of the Chateau (1934)
as Auctioneer
On Such a Night (1937)
as Horace Darwin
Address Unknown (1944)
as Professor Schmidt
Kind Lady (1935)
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
The Shadow Returns (1946)
as Michael Hasdon
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)
as Police Commissioner
Sins of the Fathers (1928)
as The Eye Specialist
The Fountain (1934)
as Doctor
Suicide Fleet (1931)
as Holtzmann
Never Say Die (1939)
as Man in Charge of Duel
Star for a Night (1936)
as Doctor Heimkin
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
as Dr. Coate
Stolen Holiday (1937)
as Rainer
Along Came Love (1936)
as Planetarium Lecturer
Topaze (1933)
as Dr. Stegg
Beyond Victory (1931)
as German Hospital Chief
Sutter's Gold (1936)
as Governor Felipe Vega
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
as Pharmacist
The Grand Parade (1930)
Actor
The Masks of the Devil (1928)
as Count Zellner
A Woman Commands (1932)
as The General
The Gallant Blade (1948)
as Major
Society Smugglers (1939)
as Jones
Flesh (1932)
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
The Escape (1939)
as Dr. Shumaker
Second Wife (1936)
as Headmaster
Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939)
as Dr. Proser
Her Man o' War (1926)
as Professor Krantz
Captured! (1933)
as Herr Hauptman
Plan for Destruction (1943)
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
Home in Oklahoma (1946)
as Jason Cragmyle
The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)
as William Riker, the Butler
Yankee Fakir (1947)
as H.W. Randall
West Bound Limited (1937)
as Pop Martin
Bomber's Moon (1943)
as Dr. Hartman
Sinner Take All (1936)
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Midnight Madonna (1937)
as Vincent Long II
The Magnificent Fraud (1939)
as Mendietta Garcia
Mister Antonio (1929)
as Milton Jorny
The Blue Danube (1928)
as Baron
Four Mothers (1941)
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble (1936)
as Dr. Larson
Let's Talk It Over (1934)
as Richards
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Aristide
Gentleman's Fate (1931)
as Francesco Tomasulo
Strange Cargo (1929)
as Dr. Stecker
Yanks Ahoy (1943)
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Paris Bound (1929)
Actor
The Crooked Circle (1932)
as Rankin
Tornado (1943)
as Linden, Sr.
Strictly Unconventional (1930)
as Duke of Brocklehurst
South to Karanga (1940)
as Dr. Greenleaf
Secret Enemies (1942)
as Henry Bremmer
Blonde Ransom (1945)
as Judge
Rascals (1938)
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
Barbary Pirate (1949)
as Cathcart
Black Waters (1929)
as Randall
The Tiger Woman (1945)
as Coroner
Beau Sabreur (1928)
as Gen. de Beaujolais
Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
as Dr. Wells
Violence (1947)
as Pop, apartment concierge
Her Private Affair (1929)
as State's Attorney
His Captive Woman (1929)
as District Attorney