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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Munich, German Empire [now Germany], 1875-12-02

Died: 1965-01-19

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1926	Her Man o' War	Professor Krantz	0
2	1928	Beau Sabreur	Gen. de Beaujolais	0
3	1928	Four Sons	The Schoolmaster	72
4	1928	The Blue Danube	Baron	0
5	1928	The Masks of the Devil	Count Zellner	0
6	1928	Napoleon's Barber	Napoleon's Barber	50
7	1928	Someone to Love	Simmons	0
8	1928	Sins of the Fathers	The Eye Specialist	60
9	1929	His Captive Woman		60
10	1929	Strange Cargo	Dr. Stecker	60
11	1929	Black Waters	Randall	0
12	1929	Paris Bound		50
13	1929	Her Private Affair	State's Attorney	40
14	1929	Mister Antonio	Milton Jorny	50
15	1930	The Grand Parade		0
16	1930	Girl of the Port		57
17	1930	Strictly Unconventional	Duke of Brocklehurst	35
18	1930	Every Woman's Longing		0
19	1930	Billy the Kid	General Lew Wallace (uncredited)	43
20	1931	Gentleman's Fate	Francesco Tomasulo	55
21	1931	Beyond Victory	German Hospital Chief	0
22	1931	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Arresting Detective (uncredited)	59
23	1931	Suicide Fleet	Holtzmann	43
24	1931	Mata Hari	The Cook - Spy	62
25	1932	A Woman Commands	The General	80
26	1932	The Crooked Circle	Rankin	48
27	1932	Scarlet Dawn	Plotsky (Uncredited)	65
28	1932	Flesh	Warden in Germany (uncredited)	56
29	1933	Employees' Entrance	Garfinkle	63
30	1933	Topaze	Dr. Stegg	61
31	1933	King Kong	Captain Englehorn	76
32	1933	A Bedtime Story	Aristide	80
33	1933	Jennie Gerhardt	Old Weaver (uncredited)	40
34	1933	Before Dawn	Joe Valerie	56
35	1933	Captured!	Herr Hauptman	56
36	1933	The Son of Kong	Captain Englehorn	54
37	1934	Hi, Nellie!	Danny	65
38	1934	Journal of a Crime	Herr Winterstein	57
39	1934	The Countess of Monte Cristo	Police Commissioner	60
40	1934	No Greater Glory	Doctor	67
41	1934	Men in White	Doctor (uncredited)	60
42	1934	Let's Talk It Over	Richards	0
43	1934	Return of the Terror	Franz Reinhardt	60
44	1934	The Fountain	Doctor	95
45	1934	British Agent	Mr. X	55
46	1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	Dr. Carl Cooper	65
47	1934	I Am a Thief	Max Bolen	60
48	1934	Secret of the Chateau	Auctioneer	60
49	1934	Mills of the Gods	Barrett	0
50	1935	Life Returns	Dr. James	42
51	1935	A Dog of Flanders	Herr Vanderkloot	70
52	1935	Straight from the Heart	Coroner	0
53	1935	The Florentine Dagger	Von Stein	57
54	1935	Star of Midnight	Abe Ohlman (uncredited)	60
55	1935	Charlie Chan in Egypt	Dr. Jaipur	69
56	1935	Rendezvous	Dr. R.A. Jackson	48
57	1935	The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo	2nd Assistant Director	63
58	1935	Kind Lady	Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)	66
59	1935	The Great Impersonation	Dr. Trenk	80
60	1935	Magnificent Obsession	Dr. Rochard	74
61	1936	The Murder of Dr. Harrigan	Dr. Coate	56
62	1936	The Invisible Ray	Professor Meiklejohn	63
63	1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Dr. Pfeiffer	68
64	1936	Sutter's Gold	Governor Felipe Vega	0
65	1936	The Country Doctor	Dr. Paul Luke	60
66	1936	Till We Meet Again	Colonel Von Diegel	50
67	1936	Murder on a Bridle Path	Dr. Peters (Gregg's)	53
68	1936	The Ex-Mrs. Bradford	Henry Strand (uncredited)	62
69	1936	Under Two Flags	French General	60
70	1936	The Devil-Doll	Doctor (uncredited)	68
71	1936	Girls' Dormitory	Dr. Hoffenreich	59
72	1936	Second Wife	Headmaster	0
73	1936	Anthony Adverse	Coachman to Paris	58
74	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)	53
75	1936	Star for a Night	Doctor Heimkin	60
76	1936	Along Came Love	Planetarium Lecturer	50
77	1936	Laughing at Trouble	Dr. Larson	60
78	1936	Sinner Take All	Theo Drukker (uncredited)	48
79	1936	Camille	Creditor Agent (uncredited)	70
80	1937	Under Cover of Night	Rudolph Brehmer	57
81	1937	The Mighty Treve	Eben McClelland	60
82	1937	Man Of The People	Robinson	70
83	1937	Stolen Holiday	Rainer	66
84	1937	The Great O'Malley	Dr. Larson	67
85	1937	Espionage	Von Cram	65
86	1937	Night Key	Carl - gang engineer	61
87	1937	The Road Back	Ernst's Father	63
88	1937	Midnight Madonna	Vincent Long II	0
89	1937	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Pavloff	52
90	1937	West Bound Limited	Pop Martin	60
91	1937	On Such a Night	Horace Darwin	0
92	1937	Fit for a King	Kurtz	50
93	1937	Stage Door	Stage Director	70
94	1937	Beg, Borrow or Steal	Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)	45
95	1937	Prescription for Romance	Jozsef	0
96	1938	Prison Nurse	Doctor Hartman	51
97	1938	Rascals	Dr. C.M. Garvey	60
98	1938	City Streets	Dr. Ferenc Waller	0
99	1938	The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse	Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)	72
100	1938	I'll Give a Million	Prefect of Police	57
101	1938	Letter of Introduction	Second Doctor (uncredited)	57
102	1938	Suez	General Changarnier	52
103	1938	Torchy Gets Her Man	The Professor - Henchman	59
104	1938	The Girl Downstairs	Police Official (uncredited)	45
105	1939	Devil's Island	President of Assize Court	54
106	1939	Woman Doctor	Dr. Mathews	10
107	1939	Society Smugglers	Jones	56
108	1939	Never Say Die	Man in Charge of Duel	68
109	1939	Mystery of the White Room	Dr. Amos Thornton	0
110	1939	Sons of Liberty	Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)	62
111	1939	Juarez	Duc de Morny (uncredited)	65
112	1939	The Magnificent Fraud	Mendietta Garcia	0
113	1939	Nurse Edith Cavell	Baron von Bissing	64
114	1939	The Escape	Dr. Shumaker	55
115	1939	Sabotage	(uncredited)	70
116	1939	Ninotchka	Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)	75
117	1939	Our Neighbors - The Carters	Dr. Proser	0
118	1939	South of the Border	Don Diego Mendoza	50
119	1939	Everything Happens at Night	Pharmacist	41
120	1940	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Old Man	64
121	1940	Dr. Cyclops	Prof. Kendall	62
122	1940	Typhoon	Doctor	50
123	1940	All This, and Heaven Too	Police Official (uncredited)	71
124	1940	South to Karanga	Dr. Greenleaf	0
125	1940	The Lady in Question	President	66
126	1940	The Man I Married	Friehof	63
127	1940	Sky Murder	Dr. Crattan	63
128	1941	Four Mothers	Festival Committee Member (uncredited)	62
129	1941	The Face Behind the Mask	Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)	65
130	1941	Flight from Destiny	Edvaard Kreindling	52
131	1941	They Dare Not Love	Captain	60
132	1941	The Nurse's Secret	Wiley Henderson	50
133	1941	Shining Victory	Dr. Esterhazy	59
134	1941	Underground	Professor Baumer	61
135	1941	One Foot in Heaven	Board Member (uncredited)	66
136	1941	Dangerously They Live	Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler	59
137	1942	Nazi Agent	Fritz	66
138	1942	To Be or Not to Be	Polish Official (uncredited)	78
139	1942	The Mystery of Marie Roget	Magistrate	55
140	1942	Beyond the Blue Horizon	Sneath	0
141	1942	The Gay Sisters	Dr. Thomas Bigelow	65
142	1942	Secret Enemies	Henry Bremmer	52
143	1942	Scattergood Survives a Murder	Thaddeus Quentin	45
144	1942	Night Monster	Dr. Timmons	62
145	1942	The Mummy's Tomb	Professor Matthew Norman	56
146	1943	Plan for Destruction	Karl Ernst Haushofer	60
147	1943	Mission to Moscow	General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)	53
148	1943	Above Suspicion	Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)	65
149	1943	Background to Danger	Rudick - the Assasin	66
150	1943	Bomber's Moon	Dr. Hartman	55
151	1943	Tornado	Linden, Sr.	55
152	1944	Captain America	Lyman	55
153	1944	Gildersleeve's Ghost	Dr. Wells	50
154	1944	Address Unknown	Professor Schmidt	64
155	1944	The Mummy's Ghost	Prof. Matthew Norman	57
156	1944	The Conspirators	Casino Attendant (uncredited)	61
157	1944	House of Frankenstein	Frederick Ullman (uncredited)	60
158	1944	The Big Bonanza	Dr. Ballou	55
159	1945	The Strange Mr. Gregory	William Riker, the Butler	51
160	1945	The Jade Mask	Harper	61
161	1945	A Medal for Benny	Father Bly (uncredited)	45
162	1945	Phantoms, Inc.	Philip Kenneson, Sr.	55
163	1945	Voice of the Whistler	Dr. Rose (uncredited)	57
164	1945	The Tiger Woman	Coroner	55
165	1946	A Guy Could Change	Doctor	0
166	1946	The Shadow Returns	Michael Hasdon	53
167	1946	Sister Kenny	Dr. Chuter (uncredited)	65
168	1946	Home in Oklahoma	Jason Cragmyle	62
169	1947	Yankee Fakir	H.W. Randall	50
170	1947	Violence	Pop, apartment concierge	52
171	1947	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Maasdam	67
172	1947	Monsieur Verdoux	Doctor (uncredited)	77
173	1947	Escape Me Never	The Minister	47
174	1948	Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad	Dr. MacKenzie	60
175	1948	Carson City Raiders	Razor the Barber	0
176	1948	I, Jane Doe	Doctor	61
177	1948	The Gallant Blade	Major	60
178	1949	Barbary Pirate	Cathcart	60
179	1949	Samson and Delilah	Village Barber	65
180	1950	Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye	Darius 'Doc' Green	68
181	1951	The Lady and the Bandit	Count Eckhardt	60
182	1951	Superman and the Mole Men	Hospital Superintendent	53

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