Frank Reicher

Acting · 0.8 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

Monsieur Verdoux

19477.7

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

19476.8

Ninotchka

19397.5

Mata Hari

19316.2

Camille

19367.0

Juarez

19396.5

The Son of Kong

19335.4

Hi, Nellie!

19346.7

Dr. Cyclops

19406.2

Stage Door

19377.1

British Agent

19345.8

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

19387.0

Superman and the Mole Men

19515.4

Someone to Love

19288.0

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

19506.8

House of Frankenstein

19446.1

The Emperor's Candlesticks

19374.9

Before Dawn

19335.7

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

All This, and Heaven Too

19407.2

Nurse Edith Cavell

19396.6

The Story of Louis Pasteur

19366.9

The Mummy's Tomb

19425.5

Captain America

19445.3

Mystery of the White Room

19399.0

Devil's Island

19395.7

The Mummy's Ghost

19445.6

No Greater Glory

19346.6

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

2021

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

19406.5

Escape Me Never

19474.8

The Devil-Doll

19366.8

The Conspirators

19446.3

Above Suspicion

19436.2

Girls' Dormitory

19366.6

City Streets

19386.0

One Foot in Heaven

19416.9

The Face Behind the Mask

19416.5

Phantoms, Inc.

19456.0

The Jade Mask

19456.2

Four Sons

19287.3

The Country Doctor

19366.5

Dangerously They Live

19416.3

The Mystery of Marie Roget

19425.7

Fit for a King

19376.0

They Dare Not Love

19417.5

Suez

19385.5

Background to Danger

19436.7

Napoleon's Barber

19286.0

The Girl Downstairs

19384.7

Rendezvous

19354.9

Under Cover of Night

19376.0

Under Two Flags

19366.8

I, Jane Doe

19486.4

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

19366.2

The Gay Sisters

19426.6

Letter of Introduction

19386.0

Mission to Moscow

19435.7

I Am a Thief

19346.2

Sabotage

19396.6

Beg, Borrow or Steal

19376.0

Voice of the Whistler

19455.8

Mills of the Gods

19348.0

Nazi Agent

19426.6

Typhoon

19406.7

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

The Line-Up

19343.5

The Great O'Malley

19377.0

Society Smugglers

19396.2

Never Say Die

19397.3

Secret Enemies

19425.8

The Case of the Howling Dog

19346.3

The Nurse's Secret

19415.6

The Countess of Monte Cristo

19346.3

Let's Talk It Over

193410.0

Employees' Entrance

19336.1

Night Key

19376.2

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

19315.9

The Invisible Ray

19366.4

Anthony Adverse

19365.7

Prescription for Romance

19379.0

Charlie Chan in Egypt

19356.9

Beyond the Blue Horizon

19426.0

The Road Back

19376.7

Bomber's Moon

19436.5

Night Monster

19426.2

Journal of a Crime

19345.9

Mister Antonio

19296.0

Woman Doctor

19393.3

Torchy Gets Her Man

19385.9

Murder on a Bridle Path

19365.4

Gentleman's Fate

19316.1

The Lady in Question

19406.7

South of the Border

19396.0

West Bound Limited

19377.0

Men in White

19346.3

Sinner Take All

19364.9

Beyond Victory

19319.0

The Great Impersonation

19357.5

Sky Murder

19406.8

Violence

19475.5

Blonde Ransom

19458.0

Yanks Ahoy

19436.6

Flesh

19325.8

The Florentine Dagger

19356.8

Magnificent Obsession

19357.4

Star for a Night

19367.0

Everything Happens at Night

19395.3

Underground

19416.6

Laughing at Trouble

19368.0

Four Mothers

19416.8

Yankee Fakir

19476.0

The Escape

19396.2

Billy the Kid

19304.7

Man Of The People

19377.0

Prison Nurse

19385.6

Flight from Destiny

19415.8

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

19356.8

I'll Give a Million

19386.1

Scattergood Survives a Murder

19425.9

The Gallant Blade

19486.8

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

19488.0

Scarlet Dawn

19327.3

The Big Bonanza

19446.3

Tornado

19435.7

The Shadow Returns

19465.8

Life Returns

19354.6

The Casino Murder Case

19356.8

Sons of Liberty

19396.3

The Magnificent Fraud

19399.0

Black Waters

19298.0

Suicide Fleet

19315.0

Espionage

19377.0

The Grand Parade

19307.0

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

19365.8

Kind Lady

19356.8

Beau Sabreur

19289.0

Girl of the Port

19306.6

Strictly Unconventional

19304.3

Star of Midnight

19355.9

A Guy Could Change

19467.0

The Crooked Circle

19325.2

Barbary Pirate

19496.5

Our Neighbors - The Carters

19399.0

Return of the Terror

19346.5

The Strange Mr. Gregory

19455.5

The Fountain

19348.9

Along Came Love

19366.3

A Bedtime Story

19335.7

The Lady and the Bandit

19516.8

Home in Oklahoma

19466.6

The Man I Married

19406.3

Captured!

19335.5

Paris Bound

19295.3

Address Unknown

19446.4

A Medal for Benny

19455.6

Carson City Raiders

19488.0

Straight from the Heart

19359.0

Topaze

19336.0

His Captive Woman

19298.0

Shining Victory

19416.1

Till We Meet Again

19365.2

Every Woman's Longing

19308.0

Plan for Destruction

19436.6

A Dog of Flanders

19357.5

Sins of the Fathers

19288.0

South to Karanga

19407.0

Rascals

19387.0

Her Man o' War

19267.0

The Mighty Treve

19377.5

The Tiger Woman

19455.8

The Blue Danube

192810.0

Secret of the Chateau

19346.3

Stolen Holiday

19376.4

Second Wife

19367.0

Jennie Gerhardt

19335.7

The Masks of the Devil

19288.0

Midnight Madonna

19378.0

Strange Cargo

19298.0

On Such a Night

19377.0

A Woman Commands

19329.0

Gildersleeve's Ghost

19445.3

Her Private Affair

19294.1