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.
187 movies · 1 shows
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021·0.0
Superman and the Mole Men
1951·5.4
The Lady and the Bandit
1951·6.8
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950·6.8
Samson and Delilah
1949·6.6
Barbary Pirate
1949·6.5
The Gallant Blade
1948·6.8
I, Jane Doe
1948·6.4
Carson City Raiders
1948·8.0
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948·8.0
Escape Me Never
1947·4.8
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947·6.8
Monsieur Verdoux
1947·7.7
Violence
1947·5.5
Yankee Fakir
1947·6.0
Home in Oklahoma
1946·6.6
Sister Kenny
1946·6.9
The Shadow Returns
1946·5.8
A Guy Could Change
1946·7.0
The Tiger Woman
1945·5.8
Voice of the Whistler
1945·5.8
Phantoms, Inc.
1945·6.0
Blonde Ransom
1945·8.0
A Medal for Benny
1945·5.6
The Jade Mask
1945·6.1
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945·5.5
The Big Bonanza
1944·6.3
House of Frankenstein
1944·6.1
The Conspirators
1944·6.3
The Mummy's Ghost
1944·5.6
Gildersleeve's Ghost
1944·5.3
Address Unknown
1944·6.4
Captain America
1944·5.2
Tornado
1943·5.7
Bomber's Moon
1943·6.5
Background to Danger
1943·6.7
Yanks Ahoy
1943·6.6
Above Suspicion
1943·6.2
Mission to Moscow
1943·5.7
Plan for Destruction
1943·6.6
Night Monster
1942·6.2
The Mummy's Tomb
1942·5.5
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942·5.9
Secret Enemies
1942·5.8
The Gay Sisters
1942·6.6
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942·6.0
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942·5.7
To Be or Not to Be
1942·7.8
Nazi Agent
1942·6.6
Dangerously They Live
1941·6.3
One Foot in Heaven
1941·6.9
Underground
1941·6.6
Shining Victory
1941·6.1
The Nurse's Secret
1941·5.6
They Dare Not Love
1941·7.5
Flight from Destiny
1941·5.8
The Face Behind the Mask
1941·6.5
Four Mothers
1941·6.8
Sky Murder
1940·6.8
The Man I Married
1940·6.3
The Lady in Question
1940·6.7
South to Karanga
1940·7.0
All This, and Heaven Too
1940·7.2
Typhoon
1940·6.7
Dr. Cyclops
1940·6.2
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940·6.5
Everything Happens at Night
1939·5.3
South of the Border
1939·6.0
Our Neighbors - The Carters
1939·9.0
Ninotchka
1939·7.5
Sabotage
1939·6.6
The Escape
1939·6.2
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939·6.6
The Magnificent Fraud
1939·9.0
Juarez
1939·6.5
Sons of Liberty
1939·6.3
Mystery of the White Room
1939·9.0
Never Say Die
1939·7.3
Society Smugglers
1939·6.2
Woman Doctor
1939·3.3
Devil's Island
1939·5.7
The Girl Downstairs
1938·4.7
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938·5.9
Suez
1938·5.5
Letter of Introduction
1938·6.0
I'll Give a Million
1938·6.1
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938·7.1
City Streets
1938·6.0
Rascals
1938·7.0
Prison Nurse
1938·5.6
Prescription for Romance
1937·9.0
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937·6.0
Stage Door
1937·7.1
Fit for a King
1937·6.0
On Such a Night
1937·7.0
West Bound Limited
1937·7.0
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937·4.9
Midnight Madonna
1937·8.0
The Road Back
1937·6.7
Night Key
1937·6.2
Espionage
1937·7.0
The Great O'Malley
1937·7.0
Stolen Holiday
1937·6.4
Man Of The People
1937·7.0
The Mighty Treve
1937·7.5
Under Cover of Night
1937·6.0
Camille
1936·7.0
Sinner Take All
1936·4.9
Laughing at Trouble
1936·8.0
Along Came Love
1936·6.3
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936·5.5
Star for a Night
1936·7.0
Anthony Adverse
1936·5.7
Second Wife
1936·7.0
Girls' Dormitory
1936·6.6
The Devil-Doll
1936·6.8
Under Two Flags
1936·6.8
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936·6.2
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936·5.4
Till We Meet Again
1936·5.2
The Country Doctor
1936·6.5
Sutter's Gold
1936·7.0
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936·6.9
The Invisible Ray
1936·6.4
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936·5.8
Magnificent Obsession
1935·7.4
The Great Impersonation
1935·7.5
Kind Lady
1935·6.8
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935·6.8
Rendezvous
1935·4.9
Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935·6.9
Star of Midnight
1935·5.9
The Florentine Dagger
1935·6.8
A Dog of Flanders
1935·7.5
Straight from the Heart
1935·9.0
The Casino Murder Case
1935·6.8
Life Returns
1935·4.6
Mills of the Gods
1934·8.0
Secret of the Chateau
1934·6.3
I Am a Thief
1934·6.2
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934·6.3
British Agent
1934·5.8
The Fountain
1934·8.9
Return of the Terror
1934·6.5
Let's Talk It Over
1934·10.0
The Line-Up
1934·3.5
Men in White
1934·6.3
No Greater Glory
1934·6.6
The Countess of Monte Cristo
1934·6.3
Journal of a Crime
1934·5.9
Hi, Nellie!
1934·6.7
The Son of Kong
1933·5.4
Captured!
1933·5.5
Before Dawn
1933·5.7
Jennie Gerhardt
1933·5.7
A Bedtime Story
1933·5.7
King Kong
1933·7.6
Topaze
1933·6.0
Employees' Entrance
1933·6.1
Flesh
1932·5.8
Scarlet Dawn
1932·7.3
The Crooked Circle
1932·5.2
A Woman Commands
1932·9.0
Mata Hari
1931·6.2
Suicide Fleet
1931·5.0
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931·5.9
Beyond Victory
1931·9.0
Gentleman's Fate
1931·6.1
Billy the Kid
1930·4.7
Every Woman's Longing
1930·8.0
Strictly Unconventional
1930·4.3
The Grand Parade
1930·7.0
Girl of the Port
1930·6.6
Mister Antonio
1929·6.0
Her Private Affair
1929·4.1
Paris Bound
1929·5.3
Black Waters
1929·8.0
Strange Cargo
1929·8.0
His Captive Woman
1929·8.0
Sins of the Fathers
1928·8.0
Someone to Love
1928·8.0
Napoleon's Barber
1928·6.0
The Masks of the Devil
1928·8.0
The Blue Danube
1928·10.0
Four Sons
1928·7.3
Beau Sabreur
1928·9.0
Her Man o' War
1926·7.0