Frank Reicher

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

150

Movies

187

Born: December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965
From: Munich, German Empire [now Germany]

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.

Works

187 films

King Kong

19337.6

Samson and Delilah

19496.6

To Be or Not to Be

19427.8

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

19476.8

Monsieur Verdoux

19477.7

Ninotchka

19397.5

Mata Hari

19316.2

Camille

19367.0

Juarez

19396.5

Stage Door

19377.1

The Son of Kong

19335.4

Before Dawn

19335.7

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

19506.8

Dr. Cyclops

19406.2

City Streets

19386.0

Hi, Nellie!

19346.7

Captain America

19445.3

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

19387.0

Superman and the Mole Men

19515.4

The Emperor's Candlesticks

19374.9

British Agent

19345.8

Nurse Edith Cavell

19396.6

Someone to Love

19288.0

House of Frankenstein

19446.1

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

19406.5

The Devil-Doll

19366.8

Girls' Dormitory

19366.6

Mystery of the White Room

19399.0

Phantoms, Inc.

19456.0

Dangerously They Live

19416.3

All This, and Heaven Too

19407.2

Above Suspicion

19436.2

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

Devil's Island

19395.7

Escape Me Never

19474.8

They Dare Not Love

19417.5

The Mummy's Tomb

19425.5

The Story of Louis Pasteur

19366.9

Woman Doctor

19393.3

The Mummy's Ghost

19445.6

Suez

19385.5

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

2021

Under Cover of Night

19376.0

The Girl Downstairs

19384.7

No Greater Glory

19346.6

Napoleon's Barber

19286.0

The Conspirators

19446.3

Employees' Entrance

19336.1

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

Torchy Gets Her Man

19385.9

Voice of the Whistler

19455.8

Four Sons

19287.3

Charlie Chan in Egypt

19356.9

Night Monster

19426.2

The Case of the Howling Dog

19346.3

Letter of Introduction

19386.0

One Foot in Heaven

19416.9

The Nurse's Secret

19415.6

Mission to Moscow

19435.7

Nazi Agent

19426.6

Secret Enemies

19425.8

The Country Doctor

19366.5

Background to Danger

19436.7

Night Key

19376.2

I, Jane Doe

19486.4

The Face Behind the Mask

19416.5

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

19315.9

The Lady in Question

19406.7

The Mystery of Marie Roget

19425.7

Typhoon

19406.7

Beyond the Blue Horizon

19426.0

Prescription for Romance

19379.0

Fit for a King

19376.0

Scattergood Survives a Murder

19425.9

Rendezvous

19354.9

Beg, Borrow or Steal

19376.0

Sky Murder

19406.8

The Invisible Ray

19366.4

Magnificent Obsession

19357.4

Laughing at Trouble

19368.0

A Bedtime Story

19335.7

The Line-Up

19343.5

Four Mothers

19416.8

The Shadow Returns

19465.8

Mills of the Gods

19348.0

I Am a Thief

19346.2

Murder on a Bridle Path

19365.4

I'll Give a Million

19386.1

The Big Bonanza

19446.3

Under Two Flags

19366.8

Flesh

19325.8

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

19488.0

Men in White

19346.3

The Great O'Malley

19377.0

Anthony Adverse

19365.7

The Man I Married

19406.3

Sons of Liberty

19396.3

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

19366.2

The Florentine Dagger

19356.8

Never Say Die

19397.3

The Gay Sisters

19426.6

Everything Happens at Night

19395.3

The Fountain

19348.9

Star of Midnight

19355.9

Captured!

19335.5

Our Neighbors - The Carters

19399.0

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

19365.8

Let's Talk It Over

193410.0

Journal of a Crime

19345.9

Sabotage

19396.6

The Lady and the Bandit

19516.8

The Tiger Woman

19455.8

The Jade Mask

19456.2

Kind Lady

19356.8

Gentleman's Fate

19316.1

The Casino Murder Case

19356.8

Shining Victory

19416.1

The Escape

19396.2

Billy the Kid

19304.7

A Medal for Benny

19455.6

Sinner Take All

19364.9

Flight from Destiny

19415.8

The Countess of Monte Cristo

19346.3

Violence

19475.5

Home in Oklahoma

19466.6

The Great Impersonation

19357.5

West Bound Limited

19377.0

Return of the Terror

19346.5

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

19356.8

Tornado

19435.7

Barbary Pirate

19496.5

Scarlet Dawn

19327.3

Yanks Ahoy

19436.6

His Captive Woman

19298.0

Every Woman's Longing

19308.0

The Road Back

19376.7

Girl of the Port

19306.6

South of the Border

19396.0

Man Of The People

19377.0

Life Returns

19354.6

Star for a Night

19367.0

Paris Bound

19295.3

Underground

19416.6

The Gallant Blade

19486.8

Secret of the Chateau

19346.3

Beyond Victory

19319.0

Straight from the Heart

19359.0

Blonde Ransom

19458.0

Carson City Raiders

19488.0

Address Unknown

19446.4

Bomber's Moon

19436.5

Topaze

19336.0

The Magnificent Fraud

19399.0

Yankee Fakir

19476.0

The Crooked Circle

19325.2

The Strange Mr. Gregory

19455.5

Strictly Unconventional

19304.3

A Dog of Flanders

19357.5

Society Smugglers

19396.2

Mister Antonio

19296.0

Along Came Love

19366.3

Suicide Fleet

19315.0

Jennie Gerhardt

19335.7

The Blue Danube

192810.0

Black Waters

19298.0

The Masks of the Devil

19288.0

Plan for Destruction

19436.6

The Mighty Treve

19377.5

A Guy Could Change

19467.0

Espionage

19377.0

Rascals

19387.0

Sins of the Fathers

19288.0

Midnight Madonna

19378.0

Strange Cargo

19298.0

A Woman Commands

19329.0

Stolen Holiday

19376.4

Second Wife

19367.0

Prison Nurse

19385.6

Gildersleeve's Ghost

19445.3

Till We Meet Again

19365.2

Her Private Affair

19294.1

On Such a Night

19377.0

Beau Sabreur

19289.0

The Grand Parade

19307.0

Her Man o' War

19267.0

South to Karanga

19407.0