Frank Reicher
male
Born on December 02, 1875 (149 years old)
Passed Away on January 19, 1965
From Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Known for Acting
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.
Cast Credits
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
as
Thaddeus Quentin
1942
To Be or Not to Be
as
Polish Official (uncredited)
1942
Nazi Agent
as
Fritz
1942
Night Monster
as
Dr. Timmons
1942
Secret Enemies
as
Henry Bremmer
1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as
Magistrate
1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as
Sneath
1942
The Gay Sisters
as
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
as
Professor Matthew Norman
1942
- 1941
Dangerously They Live
as
Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1941
Shining Victory
as
Dr. Esterhazy
1941
The Nurse's Secret
as
Wiley Henderson
1941
Underground
as
Professor Baumer
1941
Four Mothers
as
Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
1941
They Dare Not Love
as
Captain
1941
Flight from Destiny
as
Edvaard Kreindling
1941
One Foot in Heaven
as
Board Member (uncredited)
1941
The Face Behind the Mask
as
Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1941
- 1940
- 1939
South of the Border
as
Don Diego Mendoza
1939
The Magnificent Fraud
as
Mendietta Garcia
1939
Sons of Liberty
as
Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939
The Escape
as
Dr. Shumaker
1939
Devil's Island
as
President of Assize Court
1939
Never Say Die
as
Man in Charge of Duel
1939
Juarez
as
Duc de Morny (uncredited)
1939
Everything Happens at Night
as
Pharmacist
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
as
Baron von Bissing
1939
Ninotchka
as
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1939
Society Smugglers
as
Jones
1939
Sabotage
as
(uncredited)
1939
Woman Doctor
as
Dr. Mathews
1939
Mystery of the White Room
as
Dr. Amos Thornton
1939
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as
Dr. Proser
1939
- 1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as
Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1938
Letter of Introduction
as
Second Doctor (uncredited)
1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
as
The Professor - Henchman
1938
The Girl Downstairs
as
Police Official (uncredited)
1938
Prison Nurse
as
Doctor Hartman
1938
City Streets
as
Dr. Ferenc Waller
1938
I'll Give a Million
as
Prefect of Police
1938
Rascals
as
Dr. C.M. Garvey
1938
Suez
as
General Changarnier
1938
- 1937
Night Key
as
Carl - gang engineer
1937
Stage Door
as
Stage Director
1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as
Pavloff
1937
Under Cover of Night
as
Rudolph Brehmer
1937
Stolen Holiday
as
Rainer
1937
Espionage
as
Von Cram
1937
Fit for a King
as
Kurtz
1937
Man Of The People
as
Robinson
1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as
Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1937
On Such a Night
as
Horace Darwin
1937
The Great O'Malley
as
Dr. Larson
1937
Prescription for Romance
as
Jozsef
1937
West Bound Limited
as
Pop Martin
1937
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Midnight Madonna
as
Vincent Long II
1937
The Mighty Treve
as
Eben McClelland
1937
The Road Back
as
Ernst's Father
1937
- 1936
Second Wife
as
Headmaster
1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as
Dr. Pfeiffer
1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as
Dr. Coate
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as
Henry Strand (uncredited)
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1936
Girls' Dormitory
as
Dr. Hoffenreich
1936
Along Came Love
as
Planetarium Lecturer
1936
Till We Meet Again
as
Colonel Von Diegel
1936
The Country Doctor
as
Dr. Paul Luke
1936
Under Two Flags
as
French General
1936
The Devil-Doll
as
Doctor (uncredited)
1936
Sutter's Gold
as
Governor Felipe Vega
1936
Laughing at Trouble
as
Dr. Larson
1936
Sinner Take All
as
Theo Drukker (uncredited)
1936
Star for a Night
as
Doctor Heimkin
1936
Anthony Adverse
as
Coachman to Paris
1936
Camille
as
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
1936
The Invisible Ray
as
Professor Meiklejohn
1936
Murder on a Bridle Path
as
Dr. Peters (Gregg's)
1936
- 1935
Charlie Chan in Egypt
as
Dr. Jaipur
1935
The Florentine Dagger
as
Von Stein
1935
Rendezvous
as
Dr. R.A. Jackson
1935
Life Returns
as
Dr. James
1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as
2nd Assistant Director
1935
Kind Lady
as
Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1935
A Dog of Flanders
as
Herr Vanderkloot
1935
Star of Midnight
as
Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
1935
Magnificent Obsession
as
Dr. Rochard
1935
The Great Impersonation
as
Dr. Trenk
1935
Straight from the Heart
as
Coroner
1935
- 1934
Return of the Terror
as
Franz Reinhardt
1934
Men in White
as
Doctor (uncredited)
1934
Journal of a Crime
as
Herr Winterstein
1934
The Fountain
as
Doctor
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
as
Dr. Carl Cooper
1934
I Am a Thief
as
Max Bolen
1934
British Agent
as
Mr. X
1934
Mills of the Gods
as
Barrett
1934
Hi, Nellie!
as
Danny
1934
Secret of the Chateau
as
Auctioneer
1934
No Greater Glory
as
Doctor
1934
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as
Police Commissioner
1934
Let's Talk It Over
as
Richards
1934
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