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