Frank Reicher
Known for Acting · 188 credits
- Born
- 1875-12-02
- Died
- 1965-01-19
- Place of birth
- Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
- Also known as
- George H. Lloyd · Frank Reichert · Franz 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
TV Shows (1)
Movies (187)
King Kong
1933
as Captain Englehorn
Ninotchka
1939
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
British Agent
1934
as Mr. X
To Be or Not to Be
1942
as Polish Official (uncredited)
Mata Hari
1931
as The Cook - Spy
Before Dawn
1933
as Joe Valerie
Monsieur Verdoux
1947
as Doctor (uncredited)
Hi, Nellie!
1934
as Danny
Juarez
1939
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
Samson and Delilah
1949
as Village Barber
The Lady in Question
1940
as President
House of Frankenstein
1944
as Frederick Ullman
Girls' Dormitory
1936
as Dr. Hoffenreich
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
Camille
1936
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Police Official (uncredited)
Woman Doctor
1939
as Dr. Mathews
Escape Me Never
1947
as The Minister
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
as Maasdam
No Greater Glory
1934
as Doctor
Captain America
1944
as Lyman
Superman and the Mole Men
1951
as Hospital Superintendent
Stage Door
1937
as Stage Director
I, Jane Doe
1948
as Doctor
Sister Kenny
1946
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938
as The Professor - Henchman
The Son of Kong
1933
as Captain Englehorn
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937
as Pavloff
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936
as Dr. Pfeiffer
The Road Back
1937
as Ernst's Father
Letter of Introduction
1938
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021
as Self - (archive footage)
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
as Prof. Matthew Norman
Secret of the Chateau
1934
as Auctioneer
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
as Professor Matthew Norman
Someone to Love
1928
as Simmons
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950
as Darius 'Doc' Green
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
as Baron von Bissing
The Line-Up
1934
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
as Old Man
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
The Devil-Doll
1936
as Doctor (uncredited)
Never Say Die
1939
as Man in Charge of Duel
Magnificent Obsession
1935
as Dr. Rochard
The Fountain
1934
as Doctor
Dr. Cyclops
1940
as Prof. Kendall
Dangerously They Live
1941
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Strictly Unconventional
1930
as Duke of Brocklehurst
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
Fit for a King
1937
as Kurtz
Mystery of the White Room
1939
as Dr. Amos Thornton
Above Suspicion
1943
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Devil's Island
1939
as President of Assize Court
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Prescription for Romance
1937
as Jozsef
Life Returns
1935
as Dr. James
Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935
as Dr. Jaipur
Night Monster
1942
as Dr. Timmons
Men in White
1934
as Doctor (uncredited)
Napoleon's Barber
1928
as Napoleon's Barber
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942
as Sneath
Secret Enemies
1942
as Henry Bremmer
The Conspirators
1944
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
City Streets
1938
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
Star of Midnight
1935
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
1943
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Flesh
1932
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
The Invisible Ray
1936
as Professor Meiklejohn
Plan for Destruction
1943
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
They Dare Not Love
1941
as Captain
Under Two Flags
1936
as French General
Anthony Adverse
1936
as Coachman to Paris
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936
as Dr. Peters
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945
as William Riker, the Butler
South of the Border
1939
as Don Diego Mendoza
Address Unknown
1944
as Professor Schmidt
Background to Danger
1943
as Rudick - the Assasin
A Medal for Benny
1945
as Father Bly (uncredited)
The Gay Sisters
1942
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Nazi Agent
1942
as Fritz
I Am a Thief
1934
as Max Bolen
The Girl Downstairs
1938
as Police Official (uncredited)
The Great Impersonation
1935
as Dr. Trenk
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
as Mendietta Garcia
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
as Dr. Carl Cooper
The Crooked Circle
1932
as Rankin
The Great O'Malley
1937
as Dr. Larson
Under Cover of Night
1937
as Rudolph Brehmer
A Guy Could Change
1946
as Doctor
One Foot in Heaven
1941
as Board Member (uncredited)
The Florentine Dagger
1935
as Von Stein
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
as Thaddeus Quentin
Flight from Destiny
1941
as Edvaard Kreindling
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
as Dr. Coate
The Casino Murder Case
1935
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Home in Oklahoma
1946
as Jason Cragmyle
Four Sons
1928
as The Schoolmaster
Night Key
1937
as Carl - gang engineer
Rendezvous
1935
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
Violence
1947
as Pop, apartment concierge
Voice of the Whistler
1945
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
A Bedtime Story
1933
as Aristide
Sky Murder
1940
as Dr. Crattan
Four Mothers
1941
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Straight from the Heart
1935
as Coroner
The Lady and the Bandit
1951
as Count Eckhardt
Employees' Entrance
1933
as Garfinkle
Suez
1938
as General Changarnier
Underground
1941
as Professor Baumer
Rascals
1938
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
The Big Bonanza
1944
as Dr. Ballou
Return of the Terror
1934
as Franz Reinhardt
Everything Happens at Night
1939
as Pharmacist
Sins of the Fathers
1928
as The Eye Specialist
Billy the Kid
1930
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million
1938
as Prefect of Police
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
About 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… With 188 credits spanning from 1926 to 2021, Frank Reicher has appeared in 187 films and 1 TV show.
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Most Popular Frank Reicher Movies
- King Kong (1933) — as Captain Englehorn
- Ninotchka (1939) — as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
- British Agent (1934) — as Mr. X
- To Be or Not to Be (1942) — as Polish Official (uncredited)
- Mata Hari (1931) — as The Cook - Spy
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