Actor
· Acting
Frank Reicher
Born 1875-12-02
Died 1965-01-19
📍 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 186
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2021
Adventures of Superman
1952
Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
1951
The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
1951
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
1950
Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
1949
Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
1949
The Gallant Blade
as Major
1948
I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
1948
Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
1948
Escape Me Never
as The Minister
1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Karel Maasdam
1947
Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
1947
Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
1947
Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
1947
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
1946
The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
1945
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
1945
Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
1945
A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
1945
The Jade Mask
as Harper
1945
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
1945
The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
1944
House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman
1944
The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
1944
Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
1944
Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
1944
Captain America
as Lyman
1944
Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
1943
Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
1943
Background to Danger
as Rudick - the Assasin
1943
Yanks Ahoy
as German Soldier (uncredited)
1943
Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
1943
Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
1943
Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
1943
Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
1942
Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
1942
The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
1942
To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
1942
Nazi Agent
as Fritz
1942
Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1941
One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
1941
Underground
as Professor Baumer
1941
Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
1941
The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
1941
They Dare Not Love
as Captain
1941
Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
1941
The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1941
Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
1941
Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
1940
The Man I Married
as Friehof
1940
The Lady in Question
as President
1940
South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
1940
All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
1940
Typhoon
as Doctor
1940
Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
1940
Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
1939
South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
1939
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Dr. Proser
1939
Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1939
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
1939
The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
1939
The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
1939
Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
1939
Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939
Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
1939
Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
1939
Society Smugglers
as Jones
1939
Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
1939
Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
1939
The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
1938
Suez
as General Changarnier
1938
Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
1938
I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1938
City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
1938
Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
1938
Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
1938
Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1937
Stage Door
as Stage Director
1937
Fit for a King
as Kurtz
1937
On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
1937
West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
1937
The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
1937
Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
1937
Espionage
as Von Cram
1937
The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
1937
Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
1937
Man Of The People
as Robinson
1937
The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
1937
Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
1937
Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
1936
Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
1936
Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
1936
Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1936
Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
1936
Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
1936
Second Wife
as Headmaster
1936
Girls' Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
1936
The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
1936
Under Two Flags
as French General
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
1936
Murder on a Bridle Path
as Dr. Peters
1936
Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
1936
The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
1936
Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
1936
The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
1936
Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
1935
The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
1935
Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
1935
Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
1935
Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
1935
Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
1935
The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
1935
A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
1935
Straight from the Heart
as Coroner
1935
The Casino Murder Case
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
1935
Life Returns
as Dr. James
1935
Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
1934
Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
1934
I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
1934
British Agent
as Mr. X
1934
The Fountain
as Doctor
1934
Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
1934
Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
1934
The Line-Up
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
1934
Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
1934
No Greater Glory
as Doctor
1934
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
1934
Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
1934
Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
1934
The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
1933
Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
1933
Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
1933
Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
1933
A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
1933
King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
1933
Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
1933
Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
1933
Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
1932
Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
1932
The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
1932
A Woman Commands
as The General
1932
Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
1931
Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
1931
Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
1931
Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
1931
Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1930
Every Woman's Longing
1930
Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
1930
The Grand Parade
1930
Girl of the Port
1930
Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny
1929
Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney
1929
Paris Bound
1929
Black Waters
as Randall
1929
Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
1929
His Captive Woman
1929
Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
1928
Someone to Love
as Simmons
1928
Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
1928
The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
1928
The Blue Danube
as Baron
1928
Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
1928
Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
1928
Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
1926