Frank Reicher
223 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 2, 1875
- Died
- Jan 19, 1965 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
- 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).
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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.
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Frank Reicher: movies and TV shows
Acting (188)
- 1952
- 1951 Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
- 1951 The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
- 1950 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
- 1949 Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
- 1949 Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
- 1948 The Gallant Blade
as Major
- 1948 I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
- 1948 Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
- 1948 Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
- 1947 Escape Me Never
as The Minister
- 1947 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Maasdam
- 1947 Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1947 Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
- 1947 Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
- 1946 Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle
- 1946 Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
- 1946 The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon
- 1946 A Guy Could Change
as Doctor
- 1945 The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
- 1945 Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
- 1945 Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
- 1945 Blonde Ransom
as Judge
- 1945 A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
- 1945 The Jade Mask
as Harper
- 1945 The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
- 1944 The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
- 1944 House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman
- 1944 The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
- 1944 The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
- 1944 Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
- 1944 Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
- 1944 Captain America
as Lyman
- 1943 Watch on the Rhine
as Admiral (uncredited)
- 1943 Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
- 1943 Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
- 1943 Background to Danger
as Rudick (uncredited)
- 1943 Yanks Ahoy
as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 1943 Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
- 1943 Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
- 1942 Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
- 1942 The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
- 1942 Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
- 1942 Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
- 1942 The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
- 1942 Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
- 1942 The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
- 1942 To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
- 1942 Nazi Agent
as Fritz
- 1941 Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
- 1941 One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
- 1941 Underground
as Professor Baumer
- 1941 Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
- 1941 The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
- 1941 They Dare Not Love
as Captain
- 1941 Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
- 1941 The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
- 1941 Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
- 1940 Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
- 1940 The Man I Married
as Friehof
- 1940 The Lady in Question
as President
- 1940 South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
- 1940 Typhoon
as Doctor
- 1940 Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
- 1940 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
- 1939 Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
- 1939 South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
- 1939 Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Dr. Proser
- 1939 Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
- 1939 Sabotage
as (uncredited)
- 1939 The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
- 1939 Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
- 1939 The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
- 1939 Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
- 1939 Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
- 1939 Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
- 1939 Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
- 1939 Society Smugglers
as Jones
- 1939 Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
- 1939 Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
- 1938 The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
- 1938 Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
- 1938 Suez
as General Changarnier
- 1938 Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
- 1938 I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
- 1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
- 1938 City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
- 1938 Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
- 1938 Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
- 1937 Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
- 1937 Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
- 1937 Stage Door
as Stage Director
- 1937 Fit for a King
as Kurtz
- 1937 On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
- 1937 West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
- 1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
- 1937 Midnight Madonna
as Vincent Long II
- 1937 The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
- 1937 Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
- 1937 Espionage
as Von Cram
- 1937 The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
- 1937 Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
- 1937 Man Of The People
as Robinson
- 1937 The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
- 1937 Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
- 1936 Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
- 1936 Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
- 1936 Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
- 1936 Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
- 1936 The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
- 1936 Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
- 1936 Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
- 1936 Second Wife
as Headmaster
- 1936 Girls' Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
- 1936 The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1936 Under Two Flags
as French General
- 1936 The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
- 1936 Murder on a Bridle Path
as Dr. Peters
- 1936 Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
- 1936 The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
- 1936 Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
- 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
- 1936 The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
- 1936 The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
- 1935 Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
- 1935 The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
- 1935 Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
- 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
- 1935 Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
- 1935 Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
- 1935 Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
- 1935 The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
- 1935 A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
- 1935 Straight from the Heart
as Coroner
- 1935 The Casino Murder Case
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
- 1935 Life Returns
as Dr. James
- 1934 Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
- 1934 Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
- 1934 I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
- 1934 The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
- 1934 British Agent
as Mr. X
- 1934 The Fountain
as Doctor
- 1934 Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
- 1934 Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
- 1934 The Line-Up
as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
- 1934 Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1934 No Greater Glory
as Doctor
- 1934 The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
- 1934 Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
- 1934 Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
- 1933 The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
- 1933 Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
- 1933 Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
- 1933 Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
- 1933 A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
- 1933 King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
- 1933 Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
- 1933 Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
- 1932 Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
- 1932 Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
- 1932 The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
- 1932 A Woman Commands
as The General
- 1931 Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
- 1931 Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
- 1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
- 1931 Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
- 1931 Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
- 1930 Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
- 1930
- 1930 Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
- 1930
- 1930
- 1929 Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny
- 1929 Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney
- 1929
- 1929 Black Waters
as Randall
- 1929 Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
- 1929
- 1928 Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
- 1928 Someone to Love
as Simmons
- 1928 Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
- 1928 The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
- 1928 The Blue Danube
as Baron
- 1928 Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
- 1928 Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
- 1926 Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
Behind the camera (39)
- 1931 We’re Switching to Hollywood
Director
- 1930 Anna Christie
Screenplay
- 1930 Girl of the Port
Dialogue
- 1929 Mister Antonio
Director
- 1929 Paris Bound
Writer
- 1921 Behind Masks
Director
- 1921 Idle Hands
Director, Producer
- 1919 The Black Circle
Director
- 1919 The Battler
Director
- 1919 The Trap
Director
- 1919 The American Way
Director
- 1919 Suspense
Director, Producer
- 1918 The Sea Waif
Director
- 1918 The Prodigal Wife
Director
- 1918 The Only Road
Director
- 1917 An American Widow
Director
- 1917 The Eternal Mother
Director
- 1917 The Trouble Buster
Director
- 1917 The Inner Shrine
Director
- 1917 Unconquered
Director
- 1917 Castles for Two
Director
- 1917 The Sacrifice
Director
- 1917 The Black Wolf
Director
- 1917 Lost and Won
Director
- 1917 Betty to the Rescue
Director, Producer
- 1916 Witchcraft
Director, Presenter
- 1916 The Storm
Director
- 1916 Public Opinion
Director
- 1916 Alien Souls
Director
- 1916 The Love Mask
Director
- 1916 The Sowers
Director
- 1916 For the Defense
Director
- 1916 Pudd'nhead Wilson
Director
- 1915 Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Director
- 1915 The Secret Sin
Director
- 1915 The Chorus Lady
Director
- 1915 The Case of Becky
Director
- 1915 The Secret Orchard
Director
- 1915 The Clue
Director
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2021
- 1914