Frank Reicher
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 2, 1875
- Died
- January 19, 1965
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies 2021
as Self (archive footage)
Superman and the Mole Men 1951
as Hospital Superintendent
The Lady and the Bandit 1951
as Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950
as Darius 'Doc' Green
Samson and Delilah 1949
as Village Barber
Barbary Pirate 1949
as Cathcart
The Gallant Blade 1948
as Major
I, Jane Doe 1948
as Doctor
Carson City Raiders 1948
as Razor the Barber
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad 1948
as Dr. MacKenzie
Escape Me Never 1947
as The Minister
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1947
as Maasdam
Monsieur Verdoux 1947
as Doctor (uncredited)
Violence 1947
as Pop, apartment concierge
Yankee Fakir 1947
as H.W. Randall
Home in Oklahoma 1946
as Jason Cragmyle
Sister Kenny 1946
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
My Pal Trigger 1946
as Ellis (uncredited)
The Shadow Returns 1946
as Michael Hasdon
A Guy Could Change 1946
as Doctor
The Tiger Woman 1945
as Coroner
Voice of the Whistler 1945
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc. 1945
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
- Blonde Ransom
Blonde Ransom 1945
as Judge
A Medal for Benny 1945
as Father Bly (uncredited)
The Jade Mask 1945
as Harper
The Strange Mr. Gregory 1945
as William Riker, the Butler
The Big Bonanza 1944
as Dr. Ballou
House of Frankenstein 1944
as Frederick Ullman
The Conspirators 1944
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost 1944
as Prof. Matthew Norman
Address Unknown 1944
as Professor Schmidt
Gildersleeve's Ghost 1944
as Dr. Wells
Captain America 1944
as Lyman
Watch on the Rhine 1943
as Admiral (uncredited)
Tornado 1943
as Linden, Sr.
Bomber's Moon 1943
as Dr. Hartman
Background to Danger 1943
as Rudick (uncredited)
Yanks Ahoy 1943
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Above Suspicion 1943
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow 1943
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Plan for Destruction 1943
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
The Mummy's Tomb 1942
as Professor Matthew Norman
Night Monster 1942
as Dr. Timmons
Scattergood Survives a Murder 1942
as Thaddeus Quentin
Secret Enemies 1942
as Henry Bremmer
The Gay Sisters 1942
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Beyond the Blue Horizon 1942
as Sneath
The Mystery of Marie Roget 1942
as Magistrate
To Be or Not to Be 1942
as Polish Official (uncredited)
Nazi Agent 1942
as Fritz
Dangerously They Live 1941
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
One Foot in Heaven 1941
as Board Member (uncredited)
Underground 1941
as Professor Baumer
Shining Victory 1941
as Dr. Esterhazy
The Nurse's Secret 1941
as Wiley Henderson
They Dare Not Love 1941
as Captain
Flight from Destiny 1941
as Edvaard Kreindling
The Face Behind the Mask 1941
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Four Mothers 1941
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Sky Murder 1940
as Dr. Crattan
The Man I Married 1940
as Friehof
The Lady in Question 1940
as President
South to Karanga 1940
as Dr. Greenleaf
All This, and Heaven Too 1940
as Police Official (uncredited)
Typhoon 1940
as Doctor
Dr. Cyclops 1940
as Prof. Kendall
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940
as Old Man
Everything Happens at Night 1939
as Pharmacist
South of the Border 1939
as Don Diego Mendoza
Our Neighbors - The Carters 1939
as Dr. Proser
Ninotchka 1939
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Sabotage 1939
as (uncredited)
The Escape 1939
as Dr. Shumaker
Nurse Edith Cavell 1939
as Baron von Bissing
The Magnificent Fraud 1939
as Mendietta Garcia
Juarez 1939
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
Sons of Liberty 1939
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
Mystery of the White Room 1939
as Dr. Amos Thornton
Never Say Die 1939
as Man in Charge of Duel
Society Smugglers 1939
as Jones
Woman Doctor 1939
as Dr. Mathews
Devil's Island 1939
as President of Assize Court
The Girl Downstairs 1938
as Police Official (uncredited)
Torchy Gets Her Man 1938
as The Professor - Henchman
Suez 1938
as General Changarnier
Letter of Introduction 1938
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million 1938
as Prefect of Police
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse 1938
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
City Streets 1938
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
Rascals 1938
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
Prison Nurse 1938
as Doctor Hartman
Prescription for Romance 1937
as Jozsef
Beg, Borrow or Steal 1937
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Stage Door 1937
as Stage Director
Fit for a King 1937
as Kurtz
On Such a Night 1937
as Horace Darwin
West Bound Limited 1937
as Pop Martin
The Emperor's Candlesticks 1937
as Pavloff
Midnight Madonna 1937
as Vincent Long II
The Road Back 1937
as Ernst's Father
Night Key 1937
as Carl - gang engineer
Espionage 1937
as Von Cram
The Great O'Malley 1937
as Dr. Larson
Stolen Holiday 1937
as Rainer
Man Of The People 1937
as Robinson
The Mighty Treve 1937
as Eben McClelland
Under Cover of Night 1937
as Rudolph Brehmer
Camille 1936
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Sinner Take All 1936
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble 1936
as Dr. Larson
Along Came Love 1936
as Planetarium Lecturer
Star for a Night 1936
as Doctor Heimkin
The Gorgeous Hussy 1936
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
Anthony Adverse 1936
as Coachman to Paris
Second Wife 1936
as Headmaster
Girls' Dormitory 1936
as Dr. Hoffenreich
The Devil-Doll 1936
as Doctor (uncredited)
Under Two Flags 1936
as French General
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford 1936
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
Murder on a Bridle Path 1936
as Dr. Peters
Till We Meet Again 1936
as Colonel Von Diegel
The Country Doctor 1936
as Dr. Paul Luke
Sutter's Gold 1936
as Governor Felipe Vega
The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936
as Dr. Pfeiffer
The Invisible Ray 1936
as Professor Meiklejohn
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan 1936
as Dr. Coate
Magnificent Obsession 1935
as Dr. Rochard
The Great Impersonation 1935
as Dr. Trenk
Kind Lady 1935
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo 1935
as 2nd Assistant Director
Rendezvous 1935
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
Charlie Chan in Egypt 1935
as Dr. Jaipur
Star of Midnight 1935
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
The Florentine Dagger 1935
as Von Stein
Straight from the Heart 1935
as Coroner
A Dog of Flanders 1935
as Herr Vanderkloot
The Casino Murder Case 1935
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Life Returns 1935
as Dr. James
Mills of the Gods 1934
as Barrett
Secret of the Chateau 1934
as Auctioneer
I Am a Thief 1934
as Max Bolen
The Case of the Howling Dog 1934
as Dr. Carl Cooper
British Agent 1934
as Mr. X
The Fountain 1934
as Doctor
Return of the Terror 1934
as Franz Reinhardt
Let's Talk It Over 1934
as Richards
The Line-Up 1934
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
Men in White 1934
as Doctor (uncredited)
No Greater Glory 1934
as Doctor
The Countess of Monte Cristo 1934
as Police Commissioner
Journal of a Crime 1934
as Herr Winterstein
Hi, Nellie! 1934
as Danny
The Son of Kong 1933
as Captain Englehorn
Captured! 1933
as Herr Hauptman
Before Dawn 1933
as Joe Valerie
Jennie Gerhardt 1933
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
A Bedtime Story 1933
as Aristide
King Kong 1933
as Captain Englehorn
Topaze 1933
as Dr. Stegg
Employees' Entrance 1933
as Garfinkle
Flesh 1932
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
Scarlet Dawn 1932
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
The Crooked Circle 1932
as Rankin
A Woman Commands 1932
as The General
Mata Hari 1931
as The Cook - Spy
Suicide Fleet 1931
as Holtzmann
The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1931
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
We’re Switching to Hollywood 1931
Director
Beyond Victory 1931
as German Hospital Chief
Gentleman's Fate 1931
as Francesco Tomasulo
Anna Christie 1930
Screenplay
Billy the Kid 1930
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Every Woman's Longing 1930
Actor
Strictly Unconventional 1930
as Duke of Brocklehurst
Girl of the Port 1930
Actor, Dialogue
The Grand Parade 1930
Actor
Mister Antonio 1929
as Milton Jorny, Director
Her Private Affair 1929
as State's Attorney
Paris Bound 1929
Actor, Writer
Black Waters 1929
as Randall
Strange Cargo 1929
as Dr. Stecker
His Captive Woman 1929
as District Attorney
Sins of the Fathers 1928
as The Eye Specialist
Someone to Love 1928
as Simmons
Napoleon's Barber 1928
as Napoleon's Barber
The Masks of the Devil 1928
as Count Zellner
The Blue Danube 1928
as Baron
Four Sons 1928
as The Schoolmaster
Beau Sabreur 1928
as Gen. de Beaujolais
Her Man o' War 1926
as Professor Krantz
Behind Masks 1921
Director
Idle Hands 1921
Director, Producer
The Black Circle 1919
Director
The Battler 1919
Director
The Trap 1919
Director
The American Way 1919
Director
Suspense 1919
Director, Producer
- The Sea Waif
The Sea Waif 1918
Director
- The Prodigal Wife
The Prodigal Wife 1918
Director
The Only Road 1918
Director
An American Widow 1917
Director
The Eternal Mother 1917
Director
The Trouble Buster 1917
Director
The Inner Shrine 1917
Director
Unconquered 1917
Director
Castles for Two 1917
Director
The Sacrifice 1917
Director
The Black Wolf 1917
Director
Lost and Won 1917
Director
Betty to the Rescue 1917
Director, Producer
Witchcraft 1916
Director, Presenter
The Storm 1916
Director
- Public Opinion
Public Opinion 1916
Director
Alien Souls 1916
Director
The Love Mask 1916
Director
The Sowers 1916
Director
For the Defense 1916
Director
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1916
Director
- Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo 1915
Director
The Secret Sin 1915
Director
The Chorus Lady 1915
Director
The Case of Becky 1915
Director
The Secret Orchard 1915
Director
The Clue 1915
Director
The Lambs' All-Star Gambol 1914
as Self
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