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