Frank Reicher
Acting
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.
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
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Superman and the Mole Men
Hospital Superintendent
The Lady and the Bandit
Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Darius 'Doc' Green
Samson and Delilah
Village Barber
Barbary Pirate
Cathcart
The Gallant Blade
Major
I, Jane Doe
Doctor
Carson City Raiders
Razor the Barber
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Dr. MacKenzie
Escape Me Never
The Minister
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Karel Maasdam
Monsieur Verdoux
Doctor (uncredited)
Violence
Pop, apartment concierge
Yankee Fakir
H.W. Randall
Home in Oklahoma
Jason Cragmyle
Sister Kenny
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
The Shadow Returns
Michael Hasdon
A Guy Could Change
Doctor
The Tiger Woman
Coroner
Voice of the Whistler
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc.
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
A Medal for Benny
Father Bly (uncredited)
The Jade Mask
Harper
The Strange Mr. Gregory
William Riker, the Butler
The Big Bonanza
Dr. Ballou
House of Frankenstein
Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
The Conspirators
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost
Prof. Matthew Norman
Address Unknown
Professor Schmidt
Gildersleeve's Ghost
Dr. Wells
Captain America
Lyman
Tornado
Linden, Sr.
Bomber's Moon
Dr. Hartman
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Rudick - the Assasin
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Above Suspicion
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
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Karl Ernst Haushofer
The Mummy's Tomb
Professor Matthew Norman
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Thaddeus Quentin
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The Gay Sisters
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Beyond the Blue Horizon
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
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To Be or Not to Be
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Dangerously They Live
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One Foot in Heaven
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Professor Baumer
Shining Victory
Dr. Esterhazy
The Nurse's Secret
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Captain
Flight from Destiny
Edvaard Kreindling
The Face Behind the Mask
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The Man I Married
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Dr. Cyclops
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
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Don Diego Mendoza
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Dr. Proser
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The Escape
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The Magnificent Fraud
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Duc de Morny (uncredited)
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Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
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Woman Doctor
Dr. Mathews
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The Girl Downstairs
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Suez
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Second Doctor (uncredited)
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Midnight Madonna
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Stolen Holiday
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The Mighty Treve
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Sinner Take All
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Planetarium Lecturer
Star for a Night
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
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Girls' Dormitory
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The Devil-Doll
Doctor (uncredited)
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
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The Country Doctor
Dr. Paul Luke
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
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2nd Assistant Director
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Herr Vanderkloot
The Casino Murder Case
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Mills of the Gods
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
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The Son of Kong
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King Kong
Captain Englehorn
Topaze
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Mata Hari
The Cook - Spy
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
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Gentleman's Fate
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