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