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