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.
Movies
Dr. Cyclops
Prof. Kendall
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Dr. Jaipur
Night Key
Carl - gang engineer
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Maasdam
The Mummy's Ghost
Prof. Matthew Norman
Superman and the Mole-Men
Hospital Superintendent
The Florentine Dagger
Von Stein
The Son of Kong
Captain Englehorn
The Strange Mr. Gregory
William Riker, the Butler
Violence
Pop, apartment concierge
Employees' Entrance
Garfinkle
Stage Door
Stage Director
A Woman Commands
The General
Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
Harper
Nazi Agent
Fritz
Sky Murder
Dr. Crattan
Dangerously They Live
Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Home in Oklahoma
Jason Cragmyle
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Pavloff
Rendezvous
Dr. R.A. Jackson
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Dr. Pfeiffer
South of the Border
Don Diego Mendoza
The Lady in Question
President
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Dr. Coate
Plan for Destruction
Karl Ernst Haushofer
Night Monster
Dr. Timmons
Men in White
Doctor (uncredited)
Escape Me Never
The Minister
Flesh
Warden in Germany (uncredited)
Under Cover of Night
Rudolph Brehmer
The Big Bonanza
Dr. Ballou
The Gorgeous Hussy
Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
Life Returns
Dr. James
Secret Enemies
Henry Bremmer
Before Dawn
Joe Valerie
The Shadow Returns
Michael Hasdon
The Magnificent Fraud
Mendietta Garcia
Topaze
Dr. Stegg
The Tiger Woman
Coroner
Billy the Kid
General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Girls Dormitory
Dr. Hoffenreich
Along Came Love
Planetarium Lecturer
Captured!
Herr Hauptman
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
2nd Assistant Director
Torchy Gets Her Man
The Professor - Henchman
Typhoon
Doctor
Stolen Holiday
Rainer
Gentleman's Fate
Francesco Tomasulo
Espionage
Von Cram
Tornado
Linden, Sr.
The Girl Downstairs
Police Official (uncredited)
Gildersleeve's Ghost
Dr. Wells
Suicide Fleet
Holtzmann
Till We Meet Again
Colonel Von Diegel
Fit for a King
Kurtz
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Magistrate
Shining Victory
Dr. Esterhazy
Sons of Liberty
Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
The Crooked Circle
Rankin
The Fountain
Doctor
The Masks of the Devil
Count Zellner
The Man I Married
Friehof
The Case of the Howling Dog
Dr. Carl Cooper
Prison Nurse
Doctor Hartman
City Streets
Dr. Ferenc Waller
Girl of the Port
I Am a Thief
Max Bolen
A Bedtime Story
Aristide
British Agent
Mr. X
Beyond Victory
German Hospital Chief
Mister Antonio
Milton Jorny
The Country Doctor
Dr. Paul Luke
I'll Give a Million
Prefect of Police
The Blue Danube
Baron
Kind Lady
Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
Four Sons
The Schoolmaster
Strictly Unconventional
Duke of Brocklehurst
His Captive Woman
Under Two Flags
French General
A Dog of Flanders
Herr Vanderkloot
Journal of a Crime
Herr Winterstein
Paris Bound
Her Private Affair
State's Attorney
Man Of The People
Robinson
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Arresting Detective (uncredited)
The Escape
Dr. Shumaker
Mills of the Gods
Barrett
The Devil-Doll
Doctor (uncredited)
Sutter's Gold
Governor Felipe Vega
Hi, Nellie!
Danny
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Jennie Gerhardt
Old Weaver (uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble
Dr. Larson
Nurse Edith Cavell
Baron von Bissing
The Nurse's Secret
Wiley Henderson
Devil's Island
President of Assize Court
Secret of the Chateau
Auctioneer
Never Say Die
Man in Charge of Duel
Juarez
Duc de Morny (uncredited)
King Kong
Captain Englehorn
Ninotchka
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Everything Happens at Night
Pharmacist
Star of Midnight
Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
House of Frankenstein
Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
No Greater Glory
Doctor
The Great O'Malley
Dr. Larson
All This, and Heaven Too
Police Official (uncredited)
Yankee Fakir
H.W. Randall
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Sneath
Monsieur Verdoux
Doctor (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Old Man
Prescription for Romance
Jozsef
West Bound Limited
Pop Martin
Society Smugglers
Jones
Voice of the Whistler
Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Underground
Professor Baumer
The Gay Sisters
Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Carson City Raiders
Razor the Barber
Scarlet Dawn
Plotsky (Uncredited)
Rascals
Dr. C.M. Garvey
The Mummy's Tomb
Professor Matthew Norman
Phantoms, Inc.
Philip Kenneson, Sr.
I, Jane Doe
Doctor
A Guy Could Change
Doctor
Sinner Take All
Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Sabotage
(uncredited)
Four Mothers
Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Napoleon's Barber
Napoleon's Barber
Black Waters
Randall
They Dare Not Love
Captain
Star for a Night
Doctor Heimkin
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Police Commissioner
Woman Doctor
Dr. Mathews
Mata Hari
The Cook - Spy
Mystery of the White Room
Dr. Amos Thornton
Suez
General Changarnier
The Lady and the Bandit
Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Darius 'Doc' Green
Midnight Madonna
Vincent Long II
Beau Sabreur
Gen. de Beaujolais
Her Man o' War
Professor Krantz
Anthony Adverse
Coachman to Paris
Magnificent Obsession
Dr. Rochard
Strange Cargo
Dr. Stecker
Samson and Delilah
Village Barber
Above Suspicion
Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Background to Danger
Rudick - the Assasin
Mission to Moscow
General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
The Great Impersonation
Dr. Trenk
Flight from Destiny
Edvaard Kreindling
Let's Talk It Over
Richards
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Dr. MacKenzie
The Mighty Treve
Eben McClelland
Barbary Pirate
Cathcart
Address Unknown
Professor Schmidt
A Medal for Benny
Father Bly (uncredited)
South to Karanga
Dr. Greenleaf
Bomber's Moon
Dr. Hartman
Camille
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Sins of the Fathers
The Eye Specialist
Captain America
Lyman
The Invisible Ray
Professor Meiklejohn
One Foot in Heaven
Board Member (uncredited)
The Road Back
Ernst's Father
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Thaddeus Quentin
To Be or Not to Be
Polish Official (uncredited)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Second Wife
Headmaster
Return of the Terror
Franz Reinhardt
Every woman's longing
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Henry Strand (uncredited)
The Grand Parade
The Conspirators
Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
Letter of Introduction
Second Doctor (uncredited)
On Such a Night
Horace Darwin
The Gallant Blade
Major
Shows
Adventures of Superman