Frank Reicher
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: December 2, 1875
Day of Death: January 19, 1965 (89 years old)
Place of Birth: Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
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.
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Actor Thaddeus Quentin
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Actor Polish Official (uncredited)
To Be or Not to Be
Actor Fritz
Nazi Agent
Actor Dr. Timmons
Night Monster
Actor Henry Bremmer
Secret Enemies
Actor Magistrate
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Actor Sneath
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Actor Dr. Thomas Bigelow
The Gay Sisters
Actor Professor Matthew Norman
The Mummy's Tomb
1941
Actor Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Dangerously They Live
Actor Dr. Esterhazy
Shining Victory
Actor Wiley Henderson
The Nurse's Secret
Actor Professor Baumer
Underground
Actor Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Four Mothers
Actor Captain
They Dare Not Love
Actor Edvaard Kreindling
Flight from Destiny
Actor Board Member (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
Actor Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
The Face Behind the Mask
1940
1939
Actor Don Diego Mendoza
South of the Border
Actor Mendietta Garcia
The Magnificent Fraud
Actor Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
Sons of Liberty
Actor Dr. Shumaker
The Escape
Actor President of Assize Court
Devil's Island
Actor Man in Charge of Duel
Never Say Die
Actor Duc de Morny (uncredited)
Juarez
Actor Pharmacist
Everything Happens at Night
Actor Baron von Bissing
Nurse Edith Cavell
Actor Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Ninotchka
Actor Jones
Society Smugglers
Actor (uncredited)
Sabotage
Actor Dr. Mathews
Woman Doctor
Actor Dr. Amos Thornton
Mystery of the White Room
1938
Actor Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Actor Second Doctor (uncredited)
Letter of Introduction
Actor The Professor - Henchman
Torchy Gets Her Man
Actor Police Official (uncredited)
The Girl Downstairs
Actor Doctor Hartman
Prison Nurse
Actor Dr. Ferenc Waller
City Streets
Actor Prefect of Police
I'll Give a Million
Actor Dr. C.M. Garvey
Rascals
Actor General Changarnier
Suez
1937
Actor Carl - gang engineer
Night Key
Actor Stage Director
Stage Door
Actor Pavloff
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Actor Rudolph Brehmer
Under Cover of Night
Actor Rainer
Stolen Holiday
Actor Von Cram
Espionage
Actor Kurtz
Fit for a King
Actor Robinson
Man Of The People
Actor Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Actor Horace Darwin
On Such a Night
Actor Dr. Larson
The Great O'Malley
Actor Jozsef
Prescription for Romance
Actor Pop Martin
West Bound Limited
Actor Vincent Long II
Midnight Madonna
Actor Eben McClelland
The Mighty Treve
Actor Ernst's Father
The Road Back
1936
Actor Headmaster
Second Wife
Actor Dr. Pfeiffer
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Actor Dr. Coate
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Actor Henry Strand (uncredited)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Actor Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
The Gorgeous Hussy
Actor Dr. Hoffenreich
Girls Dormitory
Actor Planetarium Lecturer
Along Came Love
Actor Colonel Von Diegel
Till We Meet Again
Actor Dr. Paul Luke
The Country Doctor
Actor French General
Under Two Flags
Actor Doctor (uncredited)
The Devil-Doll
Actor Governor Felipe Vega
Sutter's Gold
Actor Dr. Larson
Laughing at Trouble
Actor Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Sinner Take All
Actor Doctor Heimkin
Star for a Night
Actor Coachman to Paris
Anthony Adverse
Actor Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Camille
Actor Professor Meiklejohn
The Invisible Ray
Actor Dr. Peters (Gregg's)
Murder on a Bridle Path
1935
Actor Dr. Jaipur
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Actor Von Stein
The Florentine Dagger
Actor Dr. R.A. Jackson
Rendezvous
Actor Dr. James
Life Returns
Actor 2nd Assistant Director
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Actor Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
Kind Lady
Actor Herr Vanderkloot
A Dog of Flanders
Actor Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
Star of Midnight
Actor Dr. Rochard
Magnificent Obsession
Actor Dr. Trenk
The Great Impersonation
1934
Actor Franz Reinhardt
Return of the Terror
Actor Doctor (uncredited)
Men in White
Actor Herr Winterstein
Journal of a Crime
Actor Doctor
The Fountain
Actor Dr. Carl Cooper
The Case of the Howling Dog
Actor Max Bolen
I Am a Thief
Actor Mr. X
British Agent
Actor Barrett
Mills of the Gods
Actor Danny
Hi, Nellie!
Actor Auctioneer
Secret of the Chateau
Actor Doctor
No Greater Glory
Actor Police Commissioner
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Actor Richards
Let's Talk It Over
