Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 02, 1875
Died
Jan 19, 1965
Place of Birth
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Credits
224 titles
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
Filmography
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Adventures of Superman
Superman and the Mole Men
Hospital Superintendent
The Lady and the Bandit
Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Darius 'Doc' Green
Samson and Delilah
Village Barber
Barbary Pirate
Cathcart
The Gallant Blade
Major
I, Jane Doe
Doctor
Carson City Raiders
Razor the Barber
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Dr. MacKenzie
Escape Me Never
The Minister
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Maasdam
Monsieur Verdoux
Doctor (uncredited)
Violence
Pop, apartment concierge
Yankee Fakir
H.W. Randall
Home in Oklahoma
Jason Cragmyle
Sister Kenny
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
The Shadow Returns
Michael Hasdon
A Guy Could Change
Doctor
The Tiger Woman
Coroner
Voice of the Whistler
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc.
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
Blonde Ransom
Judge
A Medal for Benny
Father Bly (uncredited)
The Jade Mask
Harper
The Strange Mr. Gregory
William Riker, the Butler
The Big Bonanza
Dr. Ballou
House of Frankenstein
Frederick Ullman
The Conspirators
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost
Prof. Matthew Norman
Address Unknown
Professor Schmidt
Gildersleeve's Ghost
Dr. Wells
Captain America
Lyman
Tornado
Linden, Sr.
Bomber's Moon
Dr. Hartman
Background to Danger
Rudick - the Assasin
Yanks Ahoy
German Soldier (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Plan for Destruction
Karl Ernst Haushofer
The Mummy's Tomb
Professor Matthew Norman
Night Monster
Dr. Timmons
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Thaddeus Quentin
Secret Enemies
Henry Bremmer
The Gay Sisters
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Sneath
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Magistrate
To Be or Not to Be
Polish Official (uncredited)
Nazi Agent
Fritz