Acting
Frank Reicher
EN, DE cinema · 225 credits
Born
2 December 1875
Died
19 January 1965 (aged 89)
Birthplace
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Also known as George H. Lloyd · Frank Reichert · Franz 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.
Known for
Filmography
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
The Gallant Blade
as Major
I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
Escape Me Never
as The Minister
Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle
The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon
Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
A Guy Could Change
as Doctor
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
The Jade Mask
as Harper
The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman
Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
Captain America
as Lyman
The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Background to Danger
as Rudick (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
Yanks Ahoy
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Watch on the Rhine
as Admiral (uncredited)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
Nazi Agent
as Fritz
Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
Underground
as Professor Baumer
Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
They Dare Not Love
as Captain
Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
The Lady in Question
as President
Typhoon
as Doctor
The Man I Married
as Friehof
All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Society Smugglers
as Jones
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Dr. Proser
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
Suez
as General Changarnier
Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
Stage Door
as Stage Director
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
Espionage
as Von Cram
Fit for a King
as Kurtz
Man Of The People
as Robinson
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
Midnight Madonna
as Vincent Long II
The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
Second Wife
as Headmaster
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
Girls' Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
Under Two Flags
as French General
The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
Murder on a Bridle Path
as Dr. Peters
Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
Life Returns
as Dr. James
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
Straight from the Heart
as Coroner
The Casino Murder Case
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
The Fountain
as Doctor
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
British Agent
as Mr. X
Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
No Greater Glory
as Doctor
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
The Line-Up
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
A Woman Commands
as The General
Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Girl of the Port
Actor, Dialogue
Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
Anna Christie
Screenplay
Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny, Director
His Captive Woman
as District Attorney
Paris Bound
Actor, Writer
Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney
Black Waters
as Randall
Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
The Blue Danube
as Baron
Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
Someone to Love
as Simmons
Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
Behind Masks
Director
Idle Hands
Director, Producer
The Trap
Director
Suspense
Director, Producer
The Battler
Director
The Only Road
Director
The Black Wolf
Director
The Sacrifice
Director
Lost and Won
Director
Castles for Two
Director
Unconquered
Director
Betty to the Rescue
Director, Producer
The Love Mask
Director
Witchcraft
Director, Presenter
Alien Souls
Director
The Storm
Director
The Sowers
Director
The Clue
Director
The Secret Sin
Director
