
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.
Dr. Stecker
Holtzmann
Captain Englehorn
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Michael Hasdon
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
William Riker, the Butler
Count Eckhardt
Dr. Hartman
Rudick - the Assasin
Village Barber
Dr. Hoffenreich
Dr. Paul Luke
Duc de Morny (uncredited)
The General
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
The Cook - Spy
Stage Director
Von Cram
Garfinkle
Dr. Shumaker
Dr. Timmons
Cathcart
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Danny
Plotsky (Uncredited)
Dr. Coate
Joe Valerie
Polish Official (uncredited)
Doctor (uncredited)
Prefect of Police
German Hospital Chief
Major
Henry Bremmer
Karel Maasdam
Dr. Ferenc Waller
Mr. X
Robinson
Prof. Kendall
Fritz
Professor Matthew Norman
Count Zellner
Police Official (uncredited)
Captain Englehorn
Lyman
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
Ernst's Father
Herr Hauptman
Dr. Pfeiffer
Dr. Proser
General Changarnier
Doctor (uncredited)
Herr Winterstein
Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Dr. Mathews
General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Board Member (uncredited)
Police Official (uncredited)
French General
Second Doctor (uncredited)
Darius 'Doc' Green
Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Doctor (uncredited)
Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
Old Man
Prof. Matthew Norman
Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Dr. Larson
Dr. Esterhazy
Hospital Superintendent
Arresting Detective (uncredited)
General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
Dr. Jaipur
Professor Meiklejohn
Henry Strand (uncredited)
Dr. Crattan
President
Coachman to Paris
Doctor
Friehof
Duke of Brocklehurst
Doctor
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
The Schoolmaster
Dr. Peters
Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Doctor
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Kurtz
Rainer
Carl - gang engineer
Jason Cragmyle
Barrett
Baron von Bissing
Dr. Larson
Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Dr. Carl Cooper
Sneath
The Minister
Professor Baumer
Dr. Ballou
Dr. Stegg
Man in Charge of Duel
Dr. Trenk
Harper
President of Assize Court
Captain
Vincent Long II
Francesco Tomasulo
Pavloff
Franz Reinhardt
Thaddeus Quentin
2nd Assistant Director
Warden in Germany (uncredited)
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Father Bly (uncredited)
Doctor
Richards
Dr. R.A. Jackson
Coroner
Von Stein
Headmaster
Pop, apartment concierge
Dr. Rochard
Don Diego Mendoza
Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
Napoleon's Barber
Baron
Dr. James
Dr. C.M. Garvey
Simmons
Dr. MacKenzie
Magistrate
(uncredited)
Governor Felipe Vega
Police Commissioner
Coroner
Mendietta Garcia
Milton Jorny
Old Weaver (uncredited)
Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Linden, Sr.
The Eye Specialist
Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
Professor Schmidt
Eben McClelland
Self - (archive footage)
Aristide
Doctor Heimkin
German Soldier (uncredited)
Herr Vanderkloot
Rankin
Dr. Amos Thornton
Wiley Henderson
Colonel Von Diegel
Pop Martin
Randall
Gen. de Beaujolais
Jones
Edvaard Kreindling
Karl Ernst Haushofer
Planetarium Lecturer
Dr. Wells
Razor the Barber
Pharmacist
State's Attorney
Rudolph Brehmer
The Professor - Henchman
H.W. Randall
Horace Darwin
Dr. Greenleaf
Auctioneer
Doctor Hartman
Doctor
Professor Krantz
Jozsef
Max Bolen