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.
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
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