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.
188 acting credits · 36 directing credits
Acting · 188
Adventures of Superman
1952
King Kong
1933
Samson and Delilah
1949
Ninotchka
1939
To Be or Not to Be
1942
Camille
1936
Stage Door
1937
Dr. Cyclops
1940
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
The Son of Kong
1933
Monsieur Verdoux
1947
House of Frankenstein
1944
Juarez
1939
Superman and the Mole Men
1951
Captain America
1944
Sister Kenny
1946
Nazi Agent
1942
Above Suspicion
1943
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Mission to Moscow
1943
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
The Mighty Treve
1937
Mata Hari
1931
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
Hi, Nellie!
1934
Before Dawn
1933
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
Night Monster
1942
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
Underground
1941
Night Key
1937
Suez
1938
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Flight from Destiny
1941
Four Mothers
1941
A Guy Could Change
1946
Rendezvous
1935
Background to Danger
1943
The Fountain
1934
Kind Lady
1935
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936
The Florentine Dagger
1935
The Gay Sisters
1942
Life Returns
1935
Voice of the Whistler
1945
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
Blonde Ransom
1945
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
Escape Me Never
1947
City Streets
1938
The Country Doctor
1936
The Invisible Ray
1936
Men in White
1934
Stolen Holiday
1937
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
Shining Victory
1941
Topaze
1933
Dangerously They Live
1941
Sabotage
1939
The Girl Downstairs
1938
Typhoon
1940
Under Cover of Night
1937
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942
The Lady in Question
1940
Suicide Fleet
1931
A Dog of Flanders
1935
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Strange Cargo
1929
Laughing at Trouble
1936
The Conspirators
1944
Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935
British Agent
1934
I'll Give a Million
1938
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937
A Woman Commands
1932
The Road Back
1937
Mills of the Gods
1934
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
Never Say Die
1939
Four Sons
1928
Espionage
1937
Magnificent Obsession
1935
Under Two Flags
1936
Our Neighbors - The Carters
1939
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
Flesh
1932
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938
The Escape
1939
Man Of The People
1937
Let's Talk It Over
1934
Address Unknown
1944
Society Smugglers
1939
Letter of Introduction
1938
Beyond Victory
1931
Barbary Pirate
1949
The Jade Mask
1945
Devil's Island
1939
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945
Scarlet Dawn
1932
Secret Enemies
1942
Anthony Adverse
1936
Second Wife
1936
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Black Waters
1929
Straight from the Heart
1935
Captured!
1933
Someone to Love
1928
Sky Murder
1940
The Countess of Monte Cristo
1934
On Such a Night
1937
Carson City Raiders
1948
South of the Border
1939
Employees' Entrance
1933
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Violence
1947
Star of Midnight
1935
Strictly Unconventional
1930
Yankee Fakir
1947
The Devil-Doll
1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
Girl of the Port
1930
Sons of Liberty
1939
Secret of the Chateau
1934
The Shadow Returns
1946
They Dare Not Love
1941
Prison Nurse
1938
The Gallant Blade
1948
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
Billy the Kid
1930
Bomber's Moon
1943
A Medal for Benny
1945
Along Came Love
1936
The Nurse's Secret
1941
The Big Bonanza
1944
Her Private Affair
1929
Everything Happens at Night
1939
Sutter's Gold
1936
I Am a Thief
1934
Fit for a King
1937
Tornado
1943
Woman Doctor
1939
The Crooked Circle
1932
Paris Bound
1929
Return of the Terror
1934
Prescription for Romance
1937
Star for a Night
1936
Rascals
1938
The Casino Murder Case
1935
The Great Impersonation
1935
Yanks Ahoy
1943
Till We Meet Again
1936
Mister Antonio
1929
The Great O'Malley
1937
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
I, Jane Doe
1948
The Line-Up
1934
The Man I Married
1940
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936
The Tiger Woman
1945
A Bedtime Story
1933
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948
The Blue Danube
1928
The Lady and the Bandit
1951
Mystery of the White Room
1939
The Masks of the Devil
1928
Beau Sabreur
1928
Home in Oklahoma
1946
Every Woman's Longing
1930
Girls' Dormitory
1936
Sinner Take All
1936
Sins of the Fathers
1928
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021
His Captive Woman
1929
No Greater Glory
1934
Plan for Destruction
1943
The Grand Parade
1930
Gentleman's Fate
1931
Midnight Madonna
1937
Journal of a Crime
1934
South to Karanga
1940
Napoleon's Barber
1928
West Bound Limited
1937
Gildersleeve's Ghost
1944
Her Man o' War
1926
Directing · 36
We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931
The Trap
1919
Witchcraft
1916
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916
Mister Antonio
1929
The Sacrifice
1917
The Clue
1915
For the Defense
1916
Alien Souls
1916
The Sowers
1916
The Secret Sin
1915
The Only Road
1918
The Trouble Buster
1917
The Eternal Mother
1917
Behind Masks
1921
Unconquered
1917
An American Widow
1917
The Prodigal Wife
1918
The Inner Shrine
1917
The Love Mask
1916
Idle Hands
1921
The American Way
1919
Suspense
1919
The Secret Orchard
1915
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915
The Case of Becky
1915
The Storm
1916
Public Opinion
1916
The Chorus Lady
1915
Lost and Won
1917
Betty to the Rescue
1917
The Black Circle
1919
The Battler
1919
Castles for Two
1917
The Black Wolf
1917
The Sea Waif
1918