Acting
202
Man
Dec 2, 1875
Jan 19, 1965 (89)
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Frank Reicher
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1952 | Adventures of Superman | |
1951 | Superman and the Mole-Men | Hospital Superintendent |
1951 | The Lady and the Bandit | Count Eckhardt |
1950 | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Darius 'Doc' Green |
1949 | Samson and Delilah | Village Barber |
1949 | Barbary Pirate | Cathcart |
1948 | I, Jane Doe | Doctor |
1948 | The Gallant Blade | Major |
1948 | Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad | Dr. MacKenzie |
1948 | Carson City Raiders | Razor the Barber |
1947 | Monsieur Verdoux | Doctor (uncredited) |
1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Maasdam |
1947 | Violence | Pop, apartment concierge |
1947 | Escape Me Never | The Minister |
1947 | Yankee Fakir | H.W. Randall |
1946 | Sister Kenny | Dr. Chuter (uncredited) |
1946 | The Shadow Returns | Michael Hasdon |
1946 | Home in Oklahoma | Jason Cragmyle |
1946 | A Guy Could Change | Doctor |
1945 | Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask | Harper |
1945 | Voice of the Whistler | Dr. Rose (uncredited) |
1945 | The Strange Mr. Gregory | William Riker, the Butler |
1945 | A Medal for Benny | Father Bly (uncredited) |
1945 | The Tiger Woman | Coroner |
1945 | Phantoms, Inc. | Philip Kenneson, Sr. |
1944 | House of Frankenstein | Frederick Ullman (uncredited) |
1944 | The Mummy's Ghost | Prof. Matthew Norman |
1944 | Captain America | Lyman |
1944 | Address Unknown | Professor Schmidt |
1944 | The Conspirators | Casino Attendant (uncredited) |
1944 | Gildersleeve's Ghost | Dr. Wells |
1944 | The Big Bonanza | Dr. Ballou |
1943 | Above Suspicion | Colonel Gerold (Uncredited) |
1943 | Background to Danger | Rudick - the Assasin |
1943 | Mission to Moscow | General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited) |
1943 | Plan for Destruction | Karl Ernst Haushofer |
1943 | Tornado | Linden, Sr. |
1943 | Bomber's Moon | Dr. Hartman |
1942 | To Be or Not to Be | Polish Official (uncredited) |
1942 | The Mummy's Tomb | Professor Matthew Norman |
1942 | Night Monster | Dr. Timmons |
1942 | Nazi Agent | Fritz |
1942 | The Mystery of Marie Roget | Magistrate |
1942 | The Gay Sisters | Dr. Thomas Bigelow |
1942 | Secret Enemies | Henry Bremmer |
1942 | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Thaddeus Quentin |
1942 | Beyond the Blue Horizon | Sneath |
1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Board Member (uncredited) |
1941 | Dangerously They Live | Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler |
1941 | Shining Victory | Dr. Esterhazy |
1941 | Underground | Professor Baumer |
1941 | Flight from Destiny | Edvaard Kreindling |
1941 | The Nurse's Secret | Wiley Henderson |
1941 | Four Mothers | Festival Committee Member (uncredited) |
1941 | They Dare Not Love | Captain |
1940 | Dr. Cyclops | Prof. Kendall |
1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Police Official (uncredited) |
1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Old Man |
1940 | The Lady in Question | President |
1940 | The Man I Married | Friehof |
1940 | Sky Murder | Dr. Crattan |
1940 | Typhoon | Doctor |
1940 | South to Karanga | Dr. Greenleaf |
1939 | Ninotchka | Soviet Lawyer (uncredited) |
1939 | Juarez | Duc de Morny (uncredited) |
1939 | Devil's Island | President of Assize Court |
1939 | Nurse Edith Cavell | Baron von Bissing |
1939 | Sons of Liberty | Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited) |
1939 | Never Say Die | Man in Charge of Duel |
1939 | Everything Happens at Night | Pharmacist |
1939 | Society Smugglers | Jones |
1939 | Sabotage | (uncredited) |
1939 | South of the Border | Don Diego Mendoza |
1939 | The Escape | Dr. Shumaker |
1939 | Woman Doctor | Dr. Mathews |
1939 | The Magnificent Fraud | Mendietta Garcia |
1939 | Mystery of the White Room | Dr. Amos Thornton |
1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited) |
1938 | Suez | General Changarnier |
1938 | Letter of Introduction | Second Doctor (uncredited) |
1938 | The Girl Downstairs | Police Official (uncredited) |
1938 | I'll Give a Million | Prefect of Police |
1938 | Torchy Gets Her Man | The Professor - Henchman |
1938 | Prison Nurse | Doctor Hartman |
1938 | City Streets | Dr. Ferenc Waller |
1938 | Rascals | Dr. C.M. Garvey |
1937 | Stage Door | Stage Director |
1937 | Night Key | Carl - gang engineer |
1937 | The Great O'Malley | Dr. Larson |
1937 | The Emperor's Candlesticks | Pavloff |
1937 | Stolen Holiday | Rainer |
1937 | Espionage | Von Cram |
1937 | Under Cover of Night | Rudolph Brehmer |
1937 | Man Of The People | Robinson |
1937 | The Road Back | Ernst's Father |
1937 | Fit for a King | Kurtz |
1937 | Beg, Borrow or Steal | Monsieur Debillon (uncredited) |
1937 | West Bound Limited | Pop Martin |
1937 | The Mighty Treve | Eben McClelland |
1937 | On Such a Night | Horace Darwin |
1937 | Prescription for Romance | Jozsef |
1937 | Midnight Madonna | Vincent Long II |
1936 | Camille | Creditor Agent (uncredited) |
1936 | The Devil-Doll | Doctor (uncredited) |
1936 | The Invisible Ray | Professor Meiklejohn |
1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Dr. Pfeiffer |
1936 | Anthony Adverse | Coachman to Paris |
1936 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | Henry Strand (uncredited) |
1936 | The Gorgeous Hussy | Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited) |
1936 | The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Dr. Coate |
1936 | Sinner Take All | Theo Drukker (uncredited) |
1936 | Girls Dormitory | Dr. Hoffenreich |
1936 | Till We Meet Again | Colonel Von Diegel |
1936 | The Country Doctor | Dr. Paul Luke |
1936 | Under Two Flags | French General |
1936 | Laughing at Trouble | Dr. Larson |
1936 | Star for a Night | Doctor Heimkin |
1936 | Second Wife | Headmaster |
1936 | Along Came Love | Planetarium Lecturer |
1936 | Sutter's Gold | Governor Felipe Vega |
1935 | Charlie Chan in Egypt | Dr. Jaipur |
1935 | Star of Midnight | Abe Ohlman (uncredited) |
1935 | Kind Lady | Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher) |
1935 | Magnificent Obsession | Dr. Rochard |
1935 | Rendezvous | Dr. R.A. Jackson |
1935 | Life Returns | Dr. James |
1935 | The Florentine Dagger | Von Stein |
1935 | The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo | 2nd Assistant Director |
1935 | A Dog of Flanders | Herr Vanderkloot |
1935 | The Great Impersonation | Dr. Trenk |
1934 | British Agent | Mr. X |
1934 | No Greater Glory | Doctor |
1934 | Men in White | Doctor (uncredited) |
1934 | Journal of a Crime | Herr Winterstein |
1934 | The Case of the Howling Dog | Dr. Carl Cooper |
1934 | Hi, Nellie! | Danny |
1934 | I Am a Thief | Max Bolen |
1934 | The Countess of Monte Cristo | Police Commissioner |
1934 | Return of the Terror | Franz Reinhardt |
1934 | The Fountain | Doctor |
1934 | Secret of the Chateau | Auctioneer |
1934 | Mills of the Gods | Barrett |
1934 | Let's Talk It Over | Richards |
1933 | King Kong | Captain Englehorn |
1933 | The Son of Kong | Captain Englehorn |
1933 | Employees' Entrance | Garfinkle |
1933 | Topaze | Dr. Stegg |
1933 | Before Dawn | Joe Valerie |
1933 | Captured! | Herr Hauptman |
1933 | A Bedtime Story | Aristide |
1933 | Jennie Gerhardt | Old Weaver (uncredited) |
1932 | Flesh | Warden in Germany (uncredited) |
1932 | The Crooked Circle | Rankin |
1932 | Scarlet Dawn | Plotsky (Uncredited) |
1932 | A Woman Commands | The General |
1931 | Mata Hari | The Cook - Spy |
1931 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Arresting Detective (uncredited) |
1931 | Suicide Fleet | Holtzmann |
1931 | Gentleman's Fate | Francesco Tomasulo |
1931 | Beyond Victory | German Hospital Chief |
1930 | Billy the Kid | General Lew Wallace (uncredited) |
1930 | Girl of the Port | |
1930 | Strictly Unconventional | Duke of Brocklehurst |
1930 | Every woman's longing | |
1930 | The Grand Parade | |
1929 | Her Private Affair | State's Attorney |
1929 | Paris Bound | |
1929 | Mister Antonio | Milton Jorny |
1929 | His Captive Woman | |
1929 | Strange Cargo | Dr. Stecker |
1929 | Black Waters | Randall |
1928 | Four Sons | The Schoolmaster |
1928 | Napoleon's Barber | Napoleon's Barber |
1928 | Sins of the Fathers | The Eye Specialist |
1928 | The Masks of the Devil | Count Zellner |
1928 | The Blue Danube | Baron |
1928 | Beau Sabreur | Gen. de Beaujolais |
1926 | Her Man o' War | Professor Krantz |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1931 | We're switching to Hollywood | Director |
1930 | Anna Christie | Screenplay |
1930 | Girl of the Port | Dialogue |
1929 | Paris Bound | Writer |
1929 | Mister Antonio | Director |
1921 | Behind Masks | Director |
1919 | The Trap | Director |
1919 | Suspense | Director |
1918 | The Only Road | Director |
1918 | The Sea Waif | Director |
1917 | Castles for Two | Director |
1917 | Lost and Won | Director |
1917 | The Black Wolf | Director |
1917 | The Eternal Mother | Director |
1917 | An American Widow | Director |
1917 | The Inner Shrine | Director |
1917 | The Sacrifice | Director |
1916 | The Love Mask | Director |
1916 | For the Defense | Director |
1915 | The Chorus Lady | Director |
1915 | The Case of Becky | Director |
1915 | The Clue | Director |
1915 | Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | Director |
1915 | The Secret Sin | Director |