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