Frank Reicher
Acting
🎂 1875-12-02
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.
Cast credits(183)
1952
Village Barber
1949
Captain Englehorn
1933
Holtzmann
1931
Dr. Hartman
1943
Darius 'Doc' Green
1950
Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
1941
Maasdam
1947
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1939
Doctor
1940
1929
Dr. Larson
1936
Duc de Morny (uncredited)
1939
Doctor (uncredited)
1947
Hospital Superintendent
1951
Doctor Hartman
1938
Polish Official (uncredited)
1942
Cathcart
1949
Captain Englehorn
1933
Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
1944
General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
1943
Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1938
Gen. de Beaujolais
1928
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
1944
Second Doctor (uncredited)
1938
Jozsef
1937
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
1942
Arresting Detective (uncredited)
1931
The General
1932
Doctor
1934
Doctor
1946
Edvaard Kreindling
1941
Lyman
1944
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
1936
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
1946
Professor Baumer
1941
Major
1948
Thaddeus Quentin
1942
Dr. Esterhazy
1941
Count Eckhardt
1951
State's Attorney
1929
Sneath
1942
The Cook - Spy
1931
Old Man
1940
Rudick - the Assasin
1943
Coroner
1945
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1936
Professor Matthew Norman
1942
Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1941
Warden in Germany (uncredited)
1932
Doctor Heimkin
1936
The Minister
1947
Garfinkle
1933
Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1937
Board Member (uncredited)
1941
Dr. Pfeiffer
1936
Theo Drukker (uncredited)
1936
Stage Director
1937
Prof. Kendall
1940
Dr. Larson
1937
Dr. Carl Cooper
1934
General Changarnier
1938
Auctioneer
1934
Pop, apartment concierge
1947
Dr. Ballou
1944
Fritz
1942
Prefect of Police
1938
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1939
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
1945
Dr. Paul Luke
1936
Dr. Timmons
1942
Dr. Wells
1944
Headmaster
1936
Pavloff
1937
Captain
1941
Coachman to Paris
1936
Rudolph Brehmer
1937
Von Cram
1937
Francesco Tomasulo
1931
French General
1936
Dr. Shumaker
1939
Man in Charge of Duel
1939
Dr. R.A. Jackson
1935
Dr. Crattan
1940
Colonel Von Diegel
1936
Franz Reinhardt
1934
Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939
Police Official (uncredited)
1940
Joe Valerie
1933
Police Official (uncredited)
1938
Horace Darwin
1937
Doctor
1948
The Schoolmaster
1928
Dr. James
1935
Vincent Long II
1937
Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1935
Dr. Peters (Gregg's)
1936
Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1941
Prof. Matthew Norman
1944
Rankin
1932
Magistrate
1942
Dr. Greenleaf
1940
Dr. Ferenc Waller
1938
General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1930
Dr. Rochard
1935
German Hospital Chief
1931
Professor Schmidt
1944
Henry Bremmer
1942
Barrett
1934
Father Bly (uncredited)
1945
Harper
1945
Mr. X
1934
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
1943
Linden, Sr.
1943
William Riker, the Butler
1945
Baron von Bissing
1939
Dr. MacKenzie
1948
Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
1935
Ernst's Father
1937
Don Diego Mendoza
1939
Carl - gang engineer
1937
The Professor - Henchman
1938
1930
Razor the Barber
1948
The Eye Specialist
1928
Governor Felipe Vega
1936
Dr. Jaipur
1935
Kurtz
1937
Duke of Brocklehurst
1930
Herr Hauptman
1933
1930
Aristide
1933
2nd Assistant Director
1935
Doctor (uncredited)
1934
Von Stein
1935
Police Commissioner
1934
Dr. Stecker
1929
Jason Cragmyle
1946
Rainer
1937
Jones
1939
Baron
1928
H.W. Randall
1947
Professor Krantz
1926
Randall
1929
Dr. Hoffenreich
1936
Doctor (uncredited)
1936
Michael Hasdon
1946
Friehof
1940
Milton Jorny
1929
Danny
1934
Pharmacist
1939
President
1940
Doctor
1934
Wiley Henderson
1941
President of Assize Court
1939
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
1945
Robinson
1937
Henry Strand (uncredited)
1936
Pop Martin
1937
Dr. Proser
1939
Simmons
1928
Plotsky (Uncredited)
1932
Herr Winterstein
1934
Dr. Amos Thornton
1939
Professor Meiklejohn
1936
Karl Ernst Haushofer
1943
Dr. C.M. Garvey
1938
Dr. Stegg
1933
Dr. Coate
1936
1930
Count Zellner
1928
Napoleon's Barber
1928
Coroner
1935
Eben McClelland
1937
Richards
1934
Mendietta Garcia
1939
Dr. Trenk
1935
Max Bolen
1934
Herr Vanderkloot
1935
Planetarium Lecturer
1936
Dr. Mathews
1939
Old Weaver (uncredited)
1933
1929
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