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