Acting
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.
Filmography
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Film · 2021
Adventures of Superman
Series · 1952
Superman and the Mole Men
Film · 1951
The Lady and the Bandit
Film · 1951
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Film · 1950
Samson and Delilah
Film · 1949
Barbary Pirate
Film · 1949
Carson City Raiders
Film · 1948
The Gallant Blade
Film · 1948
I, Jane Doe
Film · 1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Film · 1948
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Film · 1947
Violence
Film · 1947
Escape Me Never
Film · 1947
Yankee Fakir
Film · 1947
Monsieur Verdoux
Film · 1947
Home in Oklahoma
Film · 1946
The Shadow Returns
Film · 1946
Sister Kenny
Film · 1946
A Guy Could Change
Film · 1946
The Strange Mr. Gregory
Film · 1945
The Jade Mask
Film · 1945
The Tiger Woman
Film · 1945
Voice of the Whistler
Film · 1945
Phantoms, Inc.
Film · 1945
A Medal for Benny
Film · 1945
Blonde Ransom
Film · 1945
The Mummy's Ghost
Film · 1944
The Big Bonanza
Film · 1944
Gildersleeve's Ghost
Film · 1944
House of Frankenstein
Film · 1944
Address Unknown
Film · 1944
Captain America
Film · 1944
The Conspirators
Film · 1944
Plan for Destruction
Film · 1943
Tornado
Film · 1943
Above Suspicion
Film · 1943
Background to Danger
Film · 1943
Mission to Moscow
Film · 1943
Bomber's Moon
Film · 1943
Yanks Ahoy
Film · 1943
Watch on the Rhine
Film · 1943
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Film · 1942
To Be or Not to Be
Film · 1942
Nazi Agent
Film · 1942
Night Monster
Film · 1942
Secret Enemies
Film · 1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Film · 1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Film · 1942
The Gay Sisters
Film · 1942
The Mummy's Tomb
Film · 1942
Dangerously They Live
Film · 1941
Shining Victory
Film · 1941
The Nurse's Secret
Film · 1941
Underground
Film · 1941
Four Mothers
Film · 1941
They Dare Not Love
Film · 1941
Flight from Destiny
Film · 1941
One Foot in Heaven
Film · 1941
The Face Behind the Mask
Film · 1941
Dr. Cyclops
Film · 1940
Sky Murder
Film · 1940
The Lady in Question
Film · 1940
Typhoon
Film · 1940
The Man I Married
Film · 1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Film · 1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Film · 1940
South to Karanga
Film · 1940
South of the Border
Film · 1939
The Magnificent Fraud
Film · 1939
Sons of Liberty
Film · 1939
The Escape
Film · 1939
Devil's Island
Film · 1939
Juarez
Film · 1939
Never Say Die
Film · 1939
Everything Happens at Night
Film · 1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
Film · 1939
Ninotchka
Film · 1939
Society Smugglers
Film · 1939
Sabotage
Film · 1939
Woman Doctor
Film · 1939
Mystery of the White Room
Film · 1939
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Film · 1939
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Film · 1938
Letter of Introduction
Film · 1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
Film · 1938
The Girl Downstairs
Film · 1938
Prison Nurse
Film · 1938
City Streets
Film · 1938
I'll Give a Million
Film · 1938
Rascals
Film · 1938
Suez
Film · 1938
Night Key
Film · 1937
Stage Door
Film · 1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Film · 1937
Under Cover of Night
Film · 1937
Stolen Holiday
Film · 1937
Espionage
Film · 1937
Fit for a King
Film · 1937
Man Of The People
Film · 1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Film · 1937
On Such a Night
Film · 1937
The Great O'Malley
Film · 1937
Prescription for Romance
Film · 1937
West Bound Limited
Film · 1937
Midnight Madonna
Film · 1937
The Mighty Treve
Film · 1937
The Road Back
Film · 1937
Second Wife
Film · 1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Film · 1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Film · 1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Film · 1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
Film · 1936
Girls' Dormitory
Film · 1936
Along Came Love
Film · 1936
Till We Meet Again
Film · 1936
The Country Doctor
Film · 1936
Under Two Flags
Film · 1936
The Devil-Doll
Film · 1936
Sutter's Gold
Film · 1936
Laughing at Trouble
Film · 1936
Sinner Take All
Film · 1936
Star for a Night
Film · 1936
Anthony Adverse
Film · 1936
Camille
Film · 1936
The Invisible Ray
Film · 1936
Murder on a Bridle Path
Film · 1936
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Film · 1935
The Florentine Dagger
Film · 1935
Rendezvous
Film · 1935
Life Returns
Film · 1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Film · 1935
Kind Lady
Film · 1935
A Dog of Flanders
Film · 1935
Star of Midnight
Film · 1935
Magnificent Obsession
Film · 1935
The Great Impersonation
Film · 1935
Straight from the Heart
Film · 1935
The Casino Murder Case
Film · 1935
Return of the Terror
Film · 1934
Men in White
Film · 1934
Journal of a Crime
Film · 1934
The Fountain
Film · 1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
Film · 1934
I Am a Thief
Film · 1934
British Agent
Film · 1934
Mills of the Gods
Film · 1934
Hi, Nellie!
Film · 1934
Secret of the Chateau
Film · 1934
No Greater Glory
Film · 1934
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Film · 1934
Let's Talk It Over
Film · 1934
The Line-Up
Film · 1934
The Son of Kong
Film · 1933
Employees' Entrance
Film · 1933
Before Dawn
Film · 1933
Topaze
Film · 1933
Captured!
Film · 1933
A Bedtime Story
Film · 1933
Jennie Gerhardt
Film · 1933
King Kong
Film · 1933
Flesh
Film · 1932
The Crooked Circle
Film · 1932
A Woman Commands
Film · 1932
Scarlet Dawn
Film · 1932
Gentleman's Fate
Film · 1931
Suicide Fleet
Film · 1931
Beyond Victory
Film · 1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Film · 1931
Mata Hari
Film · 1931
Every Woman's Longing
Film · 1930
The Grand Parade
Film · 1930
Billy the Kid
Film · 1930
Girl of the Port
Film · 1930
Strictly Unconventional
Film · 1930
Mister Antonio
Film · 1929
His Captive Woman
Film · 1929
Paris Bound
Film · 1929
Her Private Affair
Film · 1929
Black Waters
Film · 1929
Strange Cargo
Film · 1929
The Masks of the Devil
Film · 1928
Four Sons
Film · 1928
The Blue Danube
Film · 1928
Napoleon's Barber
Film · 1928
Beau Sabreur
Film · 1928
Sins of the Fathers
Film · 1928
Someone to Love
Film · 1928
Her Man o' War
Film · 1926
The Lambs' All-Star Gambol
Film · 1914