Frank Reicher
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1875-12-02
Day of Death
1965-01-19 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
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.
Acting
(1951)
Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
(1951)
The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
(1950)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
(1949)
Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
(1949)
Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
(1948)
I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
(1948)
The Gallant Blade
as Major
(1948)
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
(1948)
Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
(1947)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Maasdam
(1947)
Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1947)
Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
(1947)
Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
(1947)
Escape Me Never
as The Minister
(1946)
Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle
(1946)
Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
(1946)
The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon
(1946)
A Guy Could Change
as Doctor
(1945)
A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
(1945)
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
(1945)
The Jade Mask
as Harper
(1945)
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
(1945)
The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
(1945)
Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
(1944)
House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
(1944)
The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
(1944)
Captain America
as Lyman
(1944)
The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
(1944)
Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
(1944)
The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
(1944)
Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
(1943)
Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
(1943)
Background to Danger
as Rudick - the Assasin
(1943)
Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
(1943)
Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
(1943)
Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
(1943)
Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
(1942)
To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
(1942)
The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
(1942)
Nazi Agent
as Fritz
(1942)
The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
(1942)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
(1942)
Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
(1942)
Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
(1942)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
(1942)
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
(1941)
Underground
as Professor Baumer
(1941)
Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
(1941)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
(1941)
Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
(1941)
They Dare Not Love
as Captain
(1941)
One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
(1941)
Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
(1941)
Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
(1941)
The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
(1940)
Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
(1940)
Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
(1940)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
(1940)
The Lady in Question
as President
(1940)
Typhoon
as Doctor
(1940)
The Man I Married
as Friehof
(1940)
South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
(1939)
Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
(1939)
Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
(1939)
Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
(1939)
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
(1939)
Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
(1939)
The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
(1939)
Society Smugglers
as Jones
(1939)
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
(1939)
South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
(1939)
Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
(1939)
The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
(1939)
Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
(1939)
Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
(1939)
Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
(1939)
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Dr. Proser
(1938)
Suez
as General Changarnier
(1938)
The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
(1938)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
(1938)
Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
(1938)
Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
(1938)
Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
(1938)
I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
(1938)
Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
(1938)
City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
(1937)
Stage Door
as Stage Director
(1937)
Man Of The People
as Robinson
(1937)
Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
(1937)
The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
(1937)
Espionage
as Von Cram
(1937)
Midnight Madonna
as Vincent Long II
(1937)
Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
(1937)
The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
(1937)
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
(1937)
The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
(1937)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
(1937)
Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
(1937)
Fit for a King
as Kurtz
(1937)
On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
(1937)
West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
(1937)
Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
(1936)
Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
(1936)
Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
(1936)
Girls Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
(1936)
The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
(1936)
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
(1936)
The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
(1936)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
(1936)
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
(1936)
Murder on a Bridle Path
as Dr. Peters (Gregg's)
(1936)
Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
(1936)
Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
(1936)
Under Two Flags
as French General
(1936)
Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
(1936)
The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
(1936)
Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
(1936)
Second Wife
as Headmaster
(1936)
Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
(1936)
Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
(1935)
Life Returns
as Dr. James
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
(1935)
Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
(1935)
Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
(1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
(1935)
The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
(1935)
Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
(1935)
The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
(1935)
A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
(1935)
Straight from the Heart
as Coroner
(1935)
Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
(1934)
Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1934)
Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
(1934)
The Fountain
as Doctor
(1934)
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
(1934)
Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
(1934)
British Agent
as Mr. X
(1934)
Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
(1934)
Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
(1934)
I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
(1934)
Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
(1934)
Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
(1934)
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
(1934)
No Greater Glory
as Doctor
(1933)
King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
(1933)
The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
(1933)
Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
(1933)
Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
(1933)
Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
(1933)
A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
(1933)
Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
(1933)
Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
(1932)
Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
(1932)
Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
(1932)
The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
(1932)
A Woman Commands
as The General
(1931)
Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
(1931)
Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
(1931)
Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
(1931)
Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
(1930)
Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
(1930)
Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
(1930)
(1930)
(1930)
(1929)
(1929)
Black Waters
as Randall
(1929)
Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny
(1929)
Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
(1929)
Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney
(1929)
(1928)
Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
(1928)
The Blue Danube
as Baron
(1928)
Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
(1928)
Someone to Love
as Simmons
(1928)
Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
(1928)
The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
(1928)
Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
(1926)
Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
Crew
(1931)
We're switching to Hollywood
Director
(1930)
Anna Christie
Screenplay
(1930)
Girl of the Port
Dialogue
(1929)
Paris Bound
Writer
(1929)
Mister Antonio
Director
(1921)
Behind Masks
Director
(1919)
The Trap
Director
(1919)
Suspense
Director, Producer
(1919)
The American Way
Director
(1919)
The Black Circle
Director
(1918)
The Only Road
Director
(1918)
The Sea Waif
Director
(1918)
The Prodigal Wife
Director
(1917)
The Black Wolf
Director
(1917)
The Eternal Mother
Director
(1917)
An American Widow
Director
(1917)
The Inner Shrine
Director
(1917)
The Sacrifice
Director
(1917)
Lost and Won
Director
(1917)
Castles for Two
Director
(1917)
Unconquered
Director
(1917)
Betty to the Rescue
Director, Producer
(1916)
The Love Mask
Director
(1916)
For the Defense
Director
(1916)
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Director
(1916)
Witchcraft
Director, Presenter
(1915)
The Chorus Lady
Director
(1915)
The Case of Becky
Director
(1915)
The Clue
Director
(1915)
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Director
(1915)
The Secret Sin
Director