Cast
Frank Reicher
Acting
Cast
Frank Reicher
Known for
Acting
Born
1875-12-02
From
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Died
1965-01-19
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.
★7.6
MOVIE1933
King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
★7.5
MOVIE1939
Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1934
British Agent
as Mr. X
★7.8
MOVIE1942
To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1931
Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
★5.7
MOVIE1933
Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
★7.7
MOVIE1947
Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1934
Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1949
Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
★6.7
MOVIE1940
The Lady in Question
as President
★6.1
MOVIE1944
House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman
★6.6
MOVIE1936
Girls' Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
★6.0
MOVIE1945
Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
★6.9
MOVIE1936
Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1940
All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
★3.3
MOVIE1939
Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
★4.8
MOVIE1947
Escape Me Never
as The Minister
★6.8
MOVIE1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Maasdam
★6.6
MOVIE1934
No Greater Glory
as Doctor
★5.2
MOVIE1944
Captain America
as Lyman
★5.4
MOVIE1951
Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
★7.1
MOVIE1937
Stage Door
as Stage Director
★6.4
MOVIE1948
I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
★6.9
MOVIE1946
Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
★5.4
MOVIE1933
The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
★4.9
MOVIE1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
★6.9
MOVIE1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
★6.7
MOVIE1937
The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
MOVIE2021
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
★5.6
MOVIE1944
The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
★6.3
MOVIE1934
Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
★5.5
MOVIE1942
The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Someone to Love
as Simmons
★6.8
MOVIE1950
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
★3.5
MOVIE1934
The Line-Up
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
★5.9
MOVIE1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1936
The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1939
Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
★7.4
MOVIE1935
Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
★9.2
MOVIE1934
The Fountain
as Doctor
★6.2
MOVIE1940
Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
★6.5
MOVIE1941
The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
★4.3
MOVIE1930
Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
★6.2
MOVIE1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Fit for a King
as Kurtz
★9.0
MOVIE1939
Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1939
Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
★4.6
MOVIE1935
Life Returns
as Dr. James
★6.9
MOVIE1935
Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
★6.3
MOVIE1934
Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1928
Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
★5.8
MOVIE1942
Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1938
City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
★5.9
MOVIE1935
Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1932
Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1936
The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
★6.6
MOVIE1943
Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
★7.5
MOVIE1941
They Dare Not Love
as Captain
★6.8
MOVIE1936
Under Two Flags
as French General
★5.7
MOVIE1936
Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
★5.4
MOVIE1936
Murder on a Bridle Path
as Dr. Peters
★5.5
MOVIE1945
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
★6.0
MOVIE1939
South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
★6.5
MOVIE1944
Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
★6.7
MOVIE1943
Background to Danger
as Rudick - the Assasin
★5.6
MOVIE1945
A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1942
The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Nazi Agent
as Fritz
★6.2
MOVIE1934
I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
★4.7
MOVIE1938
The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1935
The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
★9.0
MOVIE1939
The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
★6.3
MOVIE1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
★5.2
MOVIE1932
The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
★7.0
MOVIE1946
A Guy Could Change
as Doctor
★6.9
MOVIE1941
One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1935
The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
★5.9
MOVIE1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
★5.8
MOVIE1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
★6.8
MOVIE1935
The Casino Murder Case
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1946
Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle
★7.3
MOVIE1928
Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
★6.2
MOVIE1937
Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
★4.9
MOVIE1935
Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
★5.5
MOVIE1947
Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1933
A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Straight from the Heart
as Coroner
★6.8
MOVIE1951
The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
★6.1
MOVIE1933
Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Suez
as General Changarnier
★6.6
MOVIE1941
Underground
as Professor Baumer
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
★4.7
MOVIE1930
Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1938
I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
★5.7
MOVIE1933
Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1945
The Jade Mask
as Harper
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1936
The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
★7.5
MOVIE1935
A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
★7.3
MOVIE1932
Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1945
The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
★6.0
MOVIE1933
Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
★7.0
MOVIE1937
On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
★6.1
MOVIE1941
Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
★9.0
MOVIE1932
A Woman Commands
as The General
★6.8
MOVIE1935
Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
★6.0
MOVIE1929
Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny
★8.0
MOVIE1928
The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
★5.7
MOVIE1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
★5.0
MOVIE1931
Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
★4.9
MOVIE1936
Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1930
Every Woman's Longing
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Society Smugglers
as Jones
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Man Of The People
as Robinson
★6.2
MOVIE1939
The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
★6.6
MOVIE1943
Yanks Ahoy
as German Soldier (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
★5.5
MOVIE1933
Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
★5.3
MOVIE1944
Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
★6.3
MOVIE1934
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
★7.5
MOVIE1937
The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
★6.5
MOVIE1949
Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
★6.1
MOVIE1931
Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
★5.6
MOVIE1938
Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Typhoon
as Doctor
★6.8
MOVIE1948
The Gallant Blade
as Major
★8.0
MOVIE1929
His Captive Woman
★5.3
MOVIE1929
Paris Bound
★6.3
MOVIE1940
The Man I Married
as Friehof
★6.3
MOVIE1936
Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
★6.8
MOVIE1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
★5.8
MOVIE1946
The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon
★6.4
MOVIE1937
Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
★8.0
MOVIE1929
Black Waters
as Randall
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Midnight Madonna
as Vincent Long II
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
★6.6
MOVIE1930
Girl of the Port
★6.0
MOVIE1947
Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
★7.0
MOVIE1940
South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
★7.0
MOVIE1930
The Grand Parade
★8.0
MOVIE1929
Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
★9.0
MOVIE1939
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Dr. Proser
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Espionage
as Von Cram
★5.6
MOVIE1941
The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Second Wife
as Headmaster
★7.0
MOVIE1926
Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
★7.0
MOVIE1937
West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
★5.2
MOVIE1936
Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
★5.9
MOVIE1934
Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
★10.0
MOVIE1928
The Blue Danube
as Baron
★10.0
MOVIE1934
Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Blonde Ransom
as Judge
★4.1
MOVIE1929
Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney