Frank Reicher
Acting • Born 1875-12-02 – Died 1965-01-19
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.
Filmography
187 credits
Dr. Cyclops
Movie • 1940
Prof. Kendall
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Movie • 1942
Thaddeus Quentin
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Movie • 1935
Dr. Jaipur
Night Key
Movie • 1937
Carl - gang engineer
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie • 1947
Karel Maasdam
To Be or Not to Be
Movie • 1942
Polish Official (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost
Movie • 1944
Prof. Matthew Norman
Superman and the Mole Men
Movie • 1951
Hospital Superintendent
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie • 1938
Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Second Wife
Movie • 1936
Headmaster
The Florentine Dagger
Movie • 1935
Von Stein
The Strange Mr. Gregory
Movie • 1945
William Riker, the Butler
The Son of Kong
Movie • 1933
Captain Englehorn
Violence
Movie • 1947
Pop, apartment concierge
Employees' Entrance
Movie • 1933
Garfinkle
Stage Door
Movie • 1937
Stage Director
Return of the Terror
Movie • 1934
Franz Reinhardt
The Jade Mask
Movie • 1945
Harper
Nazi Agent
Movie • 1942
Fritz
Sky Murder
Movie • 1940
Dr. Crattan
Every Woman's Longing
Movie • 1930
Dangerously They Live
Movie • 1941
Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Home in Oklahoma
Movie • 1946
Jason Cragmyle
Rendezvous
Movie • 1935
Dr. R.A. Jackson
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Movie • 1937
Pavloff
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Movie • 1936
Dr. Pfeiffer
South of the Border
Movie • 1939
Don Diego Mendoza
The Lady in Question
Movie • 1940
President
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Movie • 1936
Dr. Coate
Plan for Destruction
Movie • 1943
Karl Ernst Haushofer
Letter of Introduction
Movie • 1938
Second Doctor (uncredited)
Escape Me Never
Movie • 1947
The Minister
Night Monster
Movie • 1942
Dr. Timmons
Men in White
Movie • 1934
Doctor (uncredited)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Movie • 1936
Henry Strand (uncredited)
The Grand Parade
Movie • 1930
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie • 1936
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
The Conspirators
Movie • 1944
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Flesh
Movie • 1932
Warden in Germany (uncredited)
Under Cover of Night
Movie • 1937
Rudolph Brehmer
The Big Bonanza
Movie • 1944
Dr. Ballou
Life Returns
Movie • 1935
Dr. James
Before Dawn
Movie • 1933
Joe Valerie
The Shadow Returns
Movie • 1946
Michael Hasdon
Secret Enemies
Movie • 1942
Henry Bremmer
The Magnificent Fraud
Movie • 1939
Mendietta Garcia
Topaze
Movie • 1933
Dr. Stegg
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1930
General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
The Tiger Woman
Movie • 1945
Coroner
Girls' Dormitory
Movie • 1936
Dr. Hoffenreich
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Movie • 1935
2nd Assistant Director
Torchy Gets Her Man
Movie • 1938
The Professor - Henchman
Carson City Raiders
Movie • 1948
Razor the Barber
Along Came Love
Movie • 1936
Planetarium Lecturer
Captured!
Movie • 1933
Herr Hauptman
Typhoon
Movie • 1940
Doctor
Journal of a Crime
Movie • 1934
Herr Winterstein
Stolen Holiday
Movie • 1937
Rainer
Gentleman's Fate
Movie • 1931
Francesco Tomasulo
Espionage
Movie • 1937
Von Cram
Tornado
Movie • 1943
Linden, Sr.
The Girl Downstairs
Movie • 1938
Police Official (uncredited)
Suicide Fleet
Movie • 1931
Holtzmann
Gildersleeve's Ghost
Movie • 1944
Dr. Wells
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1936
Colonel Von Diegel
Fit for a King
Movie • 1937
Kurtz
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Movie • 1942
Magistrate
Shining Victory
Movie • 1941
Dr. Esterhazy
Sons of Liberty
Movie • 1939
Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
The Crooked Circle
Movie • 1932
Rankin
The Fountain
Movie • 1934
Doctor
The Masks of the Devil
Movie • 1928
Count Zellner
The Man I Married
Movie • 1940
Friehof
The Case of the Howling Dog
Movie • 1934
Dr. Carl Cooper
Prison Nurse
Movie • 1938
Doctor Hartman
City Streets
Movie • 1938
Dr. Ferenc Waller
Girl of the Port
Movie • 1930
A Bedtime Story
Movie • 1933
Aristide
I Am a Thief
Movie • 1934
Max Bolen
British Agent
Movie • 1934
Mr. X
Beyond Victory
Movie • 1931
German Hospital Chief
Mister Antonio
Movie • 1929
Milton Jorny
The Country Doctor
Movie • 1936
Dr. Paul Luke
Four Sons
Movie • 1928
The Schoolmaster
I'll Give a Million
Movie • 1938
Prefect of Police
Strictly Unconventional
Movie • 1930
Duke of Brocklehurst
His Captive Woman
Movie • 1929
Kind Lady
Movie • 1935
Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
The Blue Danube
Movie • 1928
Baron
Under Two Flags
Movie • 1936
French General
Paris Bound
Movie • 1929
Her Private Affair
Movie • 1929
State's Attorney
A Dog of Flanders
Movie • 1935
Herr Vanderkloot
Man Of The People
Movie • 1937
Robinson
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie • 1931
Arresting Detective (uncredited)
The Escape
Movie • 1939
Dr. Shumaker
Mills of the Gods
Movie • 1934
Barrett
The Devil-Doll
Movie • 1936
Doctor (uncredited)
Sutter's Gold
Movie • 1936
Governor Felipe Vega
Hi, Nellie!
Movie • 1934
Danny
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie • 1937
Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble
Movie • 1936
Dr. Larson
Jennie Gerhardt
Movie • 1933
Old Weaver (uncredited)
The Nurse's Secret
Movie • 1941
Wiley Henderson
Devil's Island
Movie • 1939
President of Assize Court
Secret of the Chateau
Movie • 1934
Auctioneer
Never Say Die
Movie • 1939
Man in Charge of Duel
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Duc de Morny (uncredited)
King Kong
Movie • 1933
Captain Englehorn
Everything Happens at Night
Movie • 1939
Pharmacist
Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie • 1939
Baron von Bissing
Ninotchka
Movie • 1939
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
On Such a Night
Movie • 1937
Horace Darwin
Star of Midnight
Movie • 1935
Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
House of Frankenstein
Movie • 1944
Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
No Greater Glory
Movie • 1934
Doctor
The Great O'Malley
Movie • 1937
Dr. Larson
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
The Gallant Blade
Movie • 1948
Major
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie • 1940
Police Official (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Movie • 1942
Sneath
Yankee Fakir
Movie • 1947
H.W. Randall
Monsieur Verdoux
Movie • 1947
Doctor (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie • 1940
Old Man
Society Smugglers
Movie • 1939
Jones
Prescription for Romance
Movie • 1937
Jozsef
West Bound Limited
Movie • 1937
Pop Martin
Voice of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
A Woman Commands
Movie • 1932
The General
Underground
Movie • 1941
Professor Baumer
The Gay Sisters
Movie • 1942
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Scarlet Dawn
Movie • 1932
Plotsky (Uncredited)
Rascals
Movie • 1938
Dr. C.M. Garvey
The Mummy's Tomb
Movie • 1942
Professor Matthew Norman
Phantoms, Inc.
Movie • 1945
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
I, Jane Doe
Movie • 1948
Doctor
A Guy Could Change
Movie • 1946
Doctor
Sinner Take All
Movie • 1936
Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Sabotage
Movie • 1939
(uncredited)
Four Mothers
Movie • 1941
Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Napoleon's Barber
Movie • 1928
Napoleon's Barber
Black Waters
Movie • 1929
Randall
They Dare Not Love
Movie • 1941
Captain
Star for a Night
Movie • 1936
Doctor Heimkin
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1934
Police Commissioner
Woman Doctor
Movie • 1939
Dr. Mathews
Mata Hari
Movie • 1931
The Cook - Spy
Mystery of the White Room
Movie • 1939
Dr. Amos Thornton
Suez
Movie • 1938
General Changarnier
Beau Sabreur
Movie • 1928
Gen. de Beaujolais
The Lady and the Bandit
Movie • 1951
Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Movie • 1950
Darius 'Doc' Green
Midnight Madonna
Movie • 1937
Vincent Long II
Her Man o' War
Movie • 1926
Professor Krantz
Anthony Adverse
Movie • 1936
Coachman to Paris
Magnificent Obsession
Movie • 1935
Dr. Rochard
Strange Cargo
Movie • 1929
Dr. Stecker
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1949
Village Barber
Above Suspicion
Movie • 1943
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Background to Danger
Movie • 1943
Rudick - the Assasin
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
The Great Impersonation
Movie • 1935
Dr. Trenk
Let's Talk It Over
Movie • 1934
Richards
Flight from Destiny
Movie • 1941
Edvaard Kreindling
The Mighty Treve
Movie • 1937
Eben McClelland
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Movie • 1948
Dr. MacKenzie
Address Unknown
Movie • 1944
Professor Schmidt
Barbary Pirate
Movie • 1949
Cathcart
A Medal for Benny
Movie • 1945
Father Bly (uncredited)
South to Karanga
Movie • 1940
Dr. Greenleaf
Bomber's Moon
Movie • 1943
Dr. Hartman
Camille
Movie • 1936
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Sins of the Fathers
Movie • 1928
The Eye Specialist
Captain America
Movie • 1944
Lyman
The Invisible Ray
Movie • 1936
Professor Meiklejohn
One Foot in Heaven
Movie • 1941
Board Member (uncredited)
The Road Back
Movie • 1937
Ernst's Father
Someone to Love
Movie • 1928
Simmons
Murder on a Bridle Path
Movie • 1936
Dr. Peters
The Face Behind the Mask
Movie • 1941
Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Movie • 1939
Dr. Proser
Straight from the Heart
Movie • 1935
Coroner
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Movie • 2021
Self - (archive footage)
The Casino Murder Case
Movie • 1935
Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
The Line-Up
Movie • 1934
Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
Yanks Ahoy
Movie • 1943
German Soldier (uncredited)
Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952