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