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Frank Reicher
Actor, Writer
Died January 19, 1965 (89 years)
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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.
Filmography
| 1952 | Adventures of Superman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1951 | Superman and the Mole-Men · as Hospital Superintendent |
| 1950 | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye · as Darius 'Doc' Green |
| 1949 | Barbary Pirate · as Cathcart |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah · as Village Barber |
| 1948 | I, Jane Doe · as Doctor |
| 1947 | Monsieur Verdoux · as Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · as Maasdam |
| 1947 | Violence · as Pop, apartment concierge |
| 1947 | Escape Me Never · as The Minister |
| 1947 | Yankee Fakir · as H.W. Randall |
| 1946 | My Pal Trigger · as Judge J.E. Ellis |
| 1946 | Home in Oklahoma · as Jason Cragmyle |
| 1946 | Song of Arizona · as Doctor |
| 1945 | Rhapsody in Blue · as Guest |
| 1944 | House of Frankenstein · as Frederick Ullman (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Mummy's Ghost · as Prof. Matthew Norman |
| 1944 | The Conspirators · as Casino Attendant (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Adventures of Mark Twain · as Doctor in Elmira |
| 1944 | The Hitler Gang · as The Justizminister |
| 1943 | Above Suspicion · as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited) |
| 1943 | Background to Danger · as Rudick - the Assasin |
| 1943 | The Song of Bernadette · as Dr. St. Cyr |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine · as Admiral |
| 1943 | Tornado · as Linden, Sr. |
| 1943 | Hangmen Also Die! · as Interpreter |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be · as Polish Official (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Mummy's Tomb · as Professor Matthew Norman |
| 1942 | I Married an Angel · as Driver |
| 1942 | Divide and Conquer · as French Propagandist |
| 1941 | Father Takes a Wife · as Captain of the 'SS Leslie C.' |
| 1941 | Underground · as Professor Baumer |
| 1940 | Dr. Cyclops · as Prof. Kendall |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too · as Police Official (uncredited) |
| 1940 | South to Karanga · as Dr. Greenleaf |
| 1939 | Juarez · as Duc de Morny (uncredited) |
| 1939 | South of the Border · as Don Diego Mendoza |
| 1939 | Never Say Die · as Man in Charge of Duel |
| 1939 | Nurse Edith Cavell · as Baron von Bissing |
| 1939 | Ninotchka · as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse · as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Letter of Introduction · as Second Doctor - Midtown Hospital |
| 1938 | Suez · as General Changarnier |
| 1938 | Three Comrades · as Major - Young Soldier's Father |
| 1937 | Heidi · as Police Lieutenant |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola · as M. Perrenx |
| 1937 | Stage Door · as Stage Director |
| 1937 | The Great O'Malley · as Dr. Larson |
| 1937 | Fit for a King · as Kurtz |
| 1936 | The Devil-Doll · as Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Camille · as Creditor Agent (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford · as Henry Strand (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur · as Dr. Pfeiffer |
| 1936 | Along Came Love · as Planetarium Lecturer |
| 1935 | Star of Midnight · as Abe Ohlman (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Rendezvous · as Dr. R.A. Jackson |
| 1935 | Life Returns · as Dr. James |
| 1935 | Born to Gamble · as Defense Attorney |
| 1934 | Men in White · as Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The World Moves On · as Herr Robess |
| 1934 | Little Man, What Now? · as Lehmann |
| 1934 | British Agent · as Mr. X |
| 1933 | King Kong · as Captain Englehorn |
| 1933 | Son of Kong · as Captain Englehorn |
| 1933 | Before Dawn · as Joe Valerie |
| 1933 | After Tonight · as Major--Medical Officer |
| 1932 | Rasputin and the Empress · as German-Language Teacher |
| 1932 | Flesh · as Warden in Germany (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Crooked Circle · as Rankin |
| 1932 | Scarlet Dawn · as Plotsky (Uncredited) |
| 1931 | Mata Hari · as The Cook - Spy |
| 1930 | Billy the Kid · as General Lew Wallace (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau · as Unknown |
| 1928 | Four Sons · as The Schoolmaster |
| 1928 | Someone to Love · as Simmons |