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