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.
Known For
Acting
1940
asProf. Kendall
1942
asThaddeus Quentin
1935
asDr. Jaipur
1937
asCarl - gang engineer
1947
asMaasdam
1942
asPolish Official (uncredited)
1944
asProf. Matthew Norman
1951
asHospital Superintendent
1938
asProfessor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1936
asHeadmaster
1935
asVon Stein
1945
asWilliam Riker, the Butler
1933
asCaptain Englehorn
1947
asPop, apartment concierge
1933
asGarfinkle
1937
asStage Director
1934
asFranz Reinhardt
1945
asHarper
1942
asFritz
1940
asDr. Crattan
1930
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1941
asJarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1946
asJason Cragmyle
1935
asDr. R.A. Jackson
1937
asPavloff
1936
asDr. Pfeiffer
1939
asDon Diego Mendoza
1940
asPresident
1936
asDr. Coate
1943
asKarl Ernst Haushofer
1938
asSecond Doctor (uncredited)
1947
asThe Minister
1942
asDr. Timmons
1934
asDoctor (uncredited)
1936
asHenry Strand (uncredited)
1930
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1936
asCommander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1944
asCasino Attendant (uncredited)
1932
asWarden in Germany (uncredited)
1937
asRudolph Brehmer
1944
asDr. Ballou
1935
asDr. James
1933
asJoe Valerie
1946
asMichael Hasdon
1942
asHenry Bremmer
1939
asMendietta Garcia
1933
asDr. Stegg
1930
asGeneral Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1945
asCoroner
1936
asDr. Hoffenreich
1935
as2nd Assistant Director
1938
asThe Professor - Henchman
1948
asRazor the Barber
1936
asPlanetarium Lecturer
1933
asHerr Hauptman
1940
asDoctor
1934
asHerr Winterstein
1937
asRainer
1931
asFrancesco Tomasulo
1937
asVon Cram
1943
asLinden, Sr.
1938
asPolice Official (uncredited)
1931
asHoltzmann
1944
asDr. Wells
1936
asColonel Von Diegel
1937
asKurtz
1942
asMagistrate
1941
asDr. Esterhazy
1939
asLyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1932
asRankin
1934
asDoctor
1928
asCount Zellner
1940
asFriehof
1934
asDr. Carl Cooper
1938
asDoctor Hartman
1938
asDr. Ferenc Waller
1930
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1933
asAristide
1934
asMax Bolen
1934
asMr. X
1931
asGerman Hospital Chief
1929
asMilton Jorny
1936
asDr. Paul Luke
1928
asThe Schoolmaster
1938
asPrefect of Police
1930
asDuke of Brocklehurst
1929
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1935
asGustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1928
asBaron
1936
asFrench General
1929
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1929
asState's Attorney
1935
asHerr Vanderkloot
1937
asRobinson
1931
asArresting Detective (uncredited)
1939
asDr. Shumaker
1934
asBarrett
1936
asDoctor (uncredited)
1936
asGovernor Felipe Vega
1934
asDanny
1937
asMonsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1936
asDr. Larson
1933
asOld Weaver (uncredited)
1941
asWiley Henderson
1939
asPresident of Assize Court
1934
asAuctioneer
1939
asMan in Charge of Duel
1939
asDuc de Morny (uncredited)
1933
asCaptain Englehorn
1939
asPharmacist
1939
asBaron von Bissing
1939
asSoviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1937
asHorace Darwin
1935
asAbe Ohlman (uncredited)
1944
asFrederick Ullman (uncredited)
1934
asDoctor
1937
asDr. Larson
1946
asDr. Chuter (uncredited)
1948
asMajor
1940
asPolice Official (uncredited)
1942
asSneath
1947
asH.W. Randall
1947
asDoctor (uncredited)
1940
asOld Man
1939
asJones
1937
asJozsef
1937
asPop Martin
1945
asDr. Rose (uncredited)
1932
asThe General
1941
asProfessor Baumer
1942
asDr. Thomas Bigelow
1932
asPlotsky (Uncredited)
1938
asDr. C.M. Garvey
1942
asProfessor Matthew Norman
1945
asPhilip Kenneson, Sr.
1948
asDoctor
1946
asDoctor
1936
asTheo Drukker (uncredited)
1939
as(uncredited)
1941
asFestival Committee Member (uncredited)
1928
asNapoleon's Barber
1929
asRandall
1941
asCaptain
1936
asDoctor Heimkin
1934
asPolice Commissioner
1939
asDr. Mathews
1931
asThe Cook - Spy
1939
asDr. Amos Thornton
1938
asGeneral Changarnier
1928
asGen. de Beaujolais
1951
asCount Eckhardt
1950
asDarius 'Doc' Green
1937
asVincent Long II
1926
asProfessor Krantz
1936
asCoachman to Paris
1935
asDr. Rochard
1929
asDr. Stecker
1949
asVillage Barber
1943
asColonel Gerold (Uncredited)
1943
asRudick - the Assasin
1943
asGeneral von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
1935
asDr. Trenk
1934
asRichards
1941
asEdvaard Kreindling
1937
asEben McClelland
1948
asDr. MacKenzie
1944
asProfessor Schmidt
1949
asCathcart
1945
asFather Bly (uncredited)
1940
asDr. Greenleaf
1943
asDr. Hartman
1936
asCreditor Agent (uncredited)
1928
asThe Eye Specialist
1944
asLyman
1936
asProfessor Meiklejohn
1941
asBoard Member (uncredited)
1937
asErnst's Father
1928
asSimmons
1936
asDr. Peters (Gregg's)
1941
asDr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1939
asDr. Proser
1935
asCoroner
asProduction
1917
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1919
asCrew
1916
asDirecting
1916
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1915
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