Frank Reicher

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 uncr…

Movies & TV Shows

1. King Kong (1933) — Captain Englehorn
2. To Be or Not to Be (1942) — Polish Official (uncredited)
3. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) — Doctor (uncredited)
4. Ninotchka (1939) — Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
5. Samson and Delilah (1949) — Village Barber
6. House of Frankenstein (1944) — Frederick Ullman
7. Camille (1936) — Creditor Agent (uncredited)
8. The Son of Kong (1933) — Captain Englehorn
9. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) — Maasdam
10. Stage Door (1937) — Stage Director
11. The Devil-Doll (1936) — Doctor (uncredited)
12. The Mummy's Ghost (1944) — Prof. Matthew Norman
13. The Mummy's Tomb (1942) — Professor Matthew Norman
14. Superman and the Mole Men (1951) — Hospital Superintendent
15. Dr. Cyclops (1940) — Prof. Kendall
16. Mata Hari (1931) — The Cook - Spy
17. Adventures of Superman (1952)
18. The Invisible Ray (1936) — Professor Meiklejohn
19. All This, and Heaven Too (1940) — Police Official (uncredited)
20. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) — Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
21. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) — Dr. Pfeiffer
22. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) — Darius 'Doc' Green
23. The Face Behind the Mask (1941) — Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
24. Night Monster (1942) — Dr. Timmons
25. Above Suspicion (1943) — Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
26. Anthony Adverse (1936) — Coachman to Paris
27. Captain America (1944) — Lyman
28. Night Key (1937) — Carl - gang engineer
29. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) — Old Man
30. Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) — Dr. Jaipur
31. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) — Henry Strand (uncredited)
32. Address Unknown (1944) — Professor Schmidt
33. Background to Danger (1943) — Rudick - the Assasin
34. Employees' Entrance (1933) — Garfinkle
35. The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) — Arresting Detective (uncredited)
36. The Lady in Question (1940) — President
37. Four Sons (1928) — The Schoolmaster
38. Juarez (1939) — Duc de Morny (uncredited)
39. Star of Midnight (1935) — Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
40. Topaze (1933) — Dr. Stegg

Directed

1. We’re Switching to Hollywood (1931) — Director
2. Castles for Two (1917) — Director
3. Mister Antonio (1929) — Director
4. Lost and Won (1917) — Director
5. The Trap (1919) — Director
6. Behind Masks (1921) — Director
7. Suspense (1919) — Director
8. Idle Hands (1921) — Director
9. The Love Mask (1916) — Director
10. The Chorus Lady (1915) — Director
11. The Case of Becky (1915) — Director
12. The Black Wolf (1917) — Director
13. For the Defense (1916) — Director
14. The Clue (1915) — Director
15. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915) — Director
16. An American Widow (1917) — Director
17. The Eternal Mother (1917) — Director
18. The Sacrifice (1917) — Director
19. The Inner Shrine (1917) — Director
20. The Secret Sin (1915) — Director
21. The Only Road (1918) — Director
22. The Sea Waif (1918) — Director
23. The American Way (1919) — Director
24. Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916) — Director
25. The Prodigal Wife (1918) — Director
26. Unconquered (1917) — Director
27. Betty to the Rescue (1917) — Director
28. Witchcraft (1916) — Director
29. The Black Circle (1919) — Director
30. Alien Souls (1916) — Director
31. The Storm (1916) — Director
32. The Sowers (1916) — Director
33. The Secret Orchard (1915) — Director
34. The Trouble Buster (1917) — Director
35. The Battler (1919) — Director
36. Public Opinion (1916) — Director