Frank Reicher

Biography

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

Prof. Kendall

Dr. Cyclops

Thaddeus Quentin

Scattergood Survives a Murder

Dr. Jaipur

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Carl - gang engineer

Night Key

Maasdam

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Polish Official (uncredited)

To Be or Not to Be

Prof. Matthew Norman

The Mummy's Ghost

Hospital Superintendent

Superman and the Mole Men

Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Headmaster

Second Wife

Von Stein

The Florentine Dagger

William Riker, the Butler

The Strange Mr. Gregory

Captain Englehorn

The Son of Kong

Pop, apartment concierge

Violence

Garfinkle

Employees' Entrance

Stage Director

Stage Door

Franz Reinhardt

Return of the Terror

Harper

The Jade Mask

Fritz

Nazi Agent

Dr. Crattan

Sky Murder

Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau

Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler

Dangerously They Live

Jason Cragmyle

Home in Oklahoma

Pavloff

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Dr. R.A. Jackson

Rendezvous

Dr. Pfeiffer

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Don Diego Mendoza

South of the Border

President

The Lady in Question

Dr. Coate

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

Karl Ernst Haushofer

Plan for Destruction

Second Doctor (uncredited)

Letter of Introduction

The Minister

Escape Me Never

Dr. Timmons

Night Monster

Doctor (uncredited)

Men in White

Henry Strand (uncredited)

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Grand Parade

Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)

The Gorgeous Hussy

Casino Attendant (uncredited)

The Conspirators

Warden in Germany (uncredited)

Flesh

Rudolph Brehmer

Under Cover of Night

Dr. Ballou

The Big Bonanza

Dr. James

Life Returns

Joe Valerie

Before Dawn

Michael Hasdon

The Shadow Returns

Henry Bremmer

Secret Enemies

Mendietta Garcia

The Magnificent Fraud

Dr. Stegg

Topaze

General Lew Wallace (uncredited)

Billy the Kid

Coroner

The Tiger Woman

Dr. Hoffenreich

Girls Dormitory

2nd Assistant Director

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

The Professor - Henchman

Torchy Gets Her Man

Razor the Barber

Carson City Raiders

Planetarium Lecturer

Along Came Love

Herr Hauptman

Captured!

Doctor

Typhoon

Herr Winterstein

Journal of a Crime

Rainer

Stolen Holiday

Francesco Tomasulo

Gentleman's Fate

Von Cram

Espionage

Linden, Sr.

Tornado

Police Official (uncredited)

The Girl Downstairs

Holtzmann

Suicide Fleet

Dr. Wells

Gildersleeve's Ghost

Colonel Von Diegel

Till We Meet Again

Kurtz

Fit for a King

Magistrate

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Dr. Esterhazy

Shining Victory

Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)

Sons of Liberty

Rankin

The Crooked Circle

Doctor

The Fountain

Count Zellner

The Masks of the Devil

Friehof

The Man I Married

Dr. Carl Cooper

The Case of the Howling Dog

Doctor Hartman

Prison Nurse

Dr. Ferenc Waller

City Streets

Girl of the Port

Max Bolen

I Am a Thief

Aristide

A Bedtime Story

Mr. X

British Agent

German Hospital Chief

Beyond Victory

Milton Jorny

Mister Antonio

Dr. Paul Luke

The Country Doctor

The Schoolmaster

Four Sons

Prefect of Police

I'll Give a Million

Duke of Brocklehurst

Strictly Unconventional

His Captive Woman

Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)

Kind Lady

Baron

The Blue Danube

French General

Under Two Flags

Paris Bound

State's Attorney

Her Private Affair

Herr Vanderkloot

A Dog of Flanders

Robinson

Man Of The People

Arresting Detective (uncredited)

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Dr. Shumaker

The Escape

Barrett

Mills of the Gods

Doctor (uncredited)

The Devil-Doll

Governor Felipe Vega

Sutter's Gold

Danny

Hi, Nellie!

Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Dr. Larson

Laughing at Trouble

Old Weaver (uncredited)

Jennie Gerhardt

Wiley Henderson

The Nurse's Secret

President of Assize Court

Devil's Island

Auctioneer

Secret of the Chateau

Duc de Morny (uncredited)

Juarez

Man in Charge of Duel

Never Say Die

Captain Englehorn

King Kong

Pharmacist

Everything Happens at Night

Baron von Bissing

Nurse Edith Cavell

Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)

Ninotchka

Horace Darwin

On Such a Night

Abe Ohlman (uncredited)

Star of Midnight

Frederick Ullman (uncredited)

House of Frankenstein

Doctor

No Greater Glory

Dr. Larson

The Great O'Malley

Dr. Chuter (uncredited)

Sister Kenny

Major

The Gallant Blade

Police Official (uncredited)

All This, and Heaven Too

Sneath

Beyond the Blue Horizon

H.W. Randall

Yankee Fakir

Doctor (uncredited)

Monsieur Verdoux

Old Man

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Jones

Society Smugglers

Jozsef

Prescription for Romance

Pop Martin

West Bound Limited

Dr. Rose (uncredited)

Voice of the Whistler

The General

A Woman Commands

Dr. Thomas Bigelow

The Gay Sisters

Professor Baumer

Underground

Plotsky (Uncredited)

Scarlet Dawn

Dr. C.M. Garvey

Rascals

Professor Matthew Norman

The Mummy's Tomb

Philip Kenneson, Sr.

Phantoms, Inc.

Doctor

I, Jane Doe

Doctor

A Guy Could Change

Theo Drukker (uncredited)

Sinner Take All

(uncredited)

Sabotage

Festival Committee Member (uncredited)

Four Mothers

Napoleon's Barber

Napoleon's Barber

Randall

Black Waters

Captain

They Dare Not Love

Doctor Heimkin

Star for a Night

Police Commissioner

The Countess of Monte Cristo

Dr. Mathews

Woman Doctor

The Cook - Spy

Mata Hari

Dr. Amos Thornton

Mystery of the White Room

General Changarnier

Suez

Gen. de Beaujolais

Beau Sabreur

Darius 'Doc' Green

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Count Eckhardt

The Lady and the Bandit

Vincent Long II

Midnight Madonna

Professor Krantz

Her Man o' War

Coachman to Paris

Anthony Adverse

Dr. Rochard

Magnificent Obsession

Dr. Stecker

Strange Cargo

Village Barber

Samson and Delilah

Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)

Above Suspicion

Rudick - the Assasin

Background to Danger

General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)

Mission to Moscow

Dr. Trenk

The Great Impersonation

Richards

Let's Talk It Over

Edvaard Kreindling

Flight from Destiny

Dr. MacKenzie

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Eben McClelland

The Mighty Treve

Professor Schmidt

Address Unknown

Cathcart

Barbary Pirate

Father Bly (uncredited)

A Medal for Benny

Dr. Greenleaf

South to Karanga

Dr. Hartman

Bomber's Moon

Creditor Agent (uncredited)

Camille

The Eye Specialist

Sins of the Fathers

Lyman

Captain America

Professor Meiklejohn

The Invisible Ray

Board Member (uncredited)

One Foot in Heaven

Ernst's Father

The Road Back

Simmons

Someone to Love

Dr. Peters (Gregg's)

Murder on a Bridle Path

Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)

The Face Behind the Mask

Dr. Proser

Our Neighbors - The Carters

Coroner

Straight from the Heart

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

182

Gender

Male

Birthday

1875-12-02

Place of Birth

Munich, German Empire [now Germany]

Also Known As

George H. Lloyd