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