Frank Reicher

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1875-12-02 (90 years old)

Deathday

1965-01-19

Place of Birth

Munich, German Empire [now Germany]

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...

Acting

1940

Dr. Cyclops

as Prof. Kendall

1942

1935

1937

Night Key

as Carl - gang engineer

1942

To Be or Not to Be

as Polish Official (uncredited)

1944

The Mummy's Ghost

as Prof. Matthew Norman

1951

Superman and the Mole Men

as Hospital Superintendent

1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)

1936

Second Wife

as Headmaster

1935

1945

The Strange Mr. Gregory

as William Riker, the Butler

1933

The Son of Kong

as Captain Englehorn

1947

Violence

as Pop, apartment concierge

1933

1937

Stage Door

as Stage Director

1934

Return of the Terror

as Franz Reinhardt

1945

The Jade Mask

as Harper

1942

Nazi Agent

as Fritz

1940

Sky Murder

as Dr. Crattan

1941

Dangerously They Live

as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler

1946

Home in Oklahoma

as Jason Cragmyle

1935

Rendezvous

as Dr. R.A. Jackson

1936

1939

South of the Border

as Don Diego Mendoza

1940

1943

Plan for Destruction

as Karl Ernst Haushofer

1938

Letter of Introduction

as Second Doctor (uncredited)

1947

Escape Me Never

as The Minister

1942

Night Monster

as Dr. Timmons

1934

Men in White

as Doctor (uncredited)

1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Henry Strand (uncredited)

1936

The Gorgeous Hussy

as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)

1944

The Conspirators

as Casino Attendant (uncredited)

1932

Flesh

as Warden in Germany (uncredited)

1937

Under Cover of Night

as Rudolph Brehmer

1944

The Big Bonanza

as Dr. Ballou

1935

Life Returns

as Dr. James

1933

Before Dawn

as Joe Valerie

1946

The Shadow Returns

as Michael Hasdon

1942

Secret Enemies

as Henry Bremmer

1939

The Magnificent Fraud

as Mendietta Garcia

1933

Topaze

as Dr. Stegg

1930

Billy the Kid

as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)

1945

The Tiger Woman

as Coroner

1936

Girls' Dormitory

as Dr. Hoffenreich

1935

1938

Torchy Gets Her Man

as The Professor - Henchman

1948

Carson City Raiders

as Razor the Barber

1936

Along Came Love

as Planetarium Lecturer

1933

Captured!

as Herr Hauptman

1940

Typhoon

as Doctor

1934

Journal of a Crime

as Herr Winterstein

1937

1931

Gentleman's Fate

as Francesco Tomasulo

1937

Espionage

as Von Cram

1943

Tornado

as Linden, Sr.

1938

The Girl Downstairs

as Police Official (uncredited)

1931

Suicide Fleet

as Holtzmann

1944

1936

Till We Meet Again

as Colonel Von Diegel

1937

1941

Shining Victory

as Dr. Esterhazy

1939

Sons of Liberty

as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)

1932

1934

The Fountain

as Doctor

1928

The Masks of the Devil

as Count Zellner

1940

1934

The Case of the Howling Dog

as Dr. Carl Cooper

1938

Prison Nurse

as Doctor Hartman

1938

City Streets

as Dr. Ferenc Waller

1934

I Am a Thief

as Max Bolen

1933

A Bedtime Story

as Aristide

1934

1931

Beyond Victory

as German Hospital Chief

1929

Mister Antonio

as Milton Jorny

1936

The Country Doctor

as Dr. Paul Luke

1928

Four Sons

as The Schoolmaster

1938

I'll Give a Million

as Prefect of Police

1930

Strictly Unconventional

as Duke of Brocklehurst

1935

Kind Lady

as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)

1928

1936

Under Two Flags

as French General

1929

Her Private Affair

as State's Attorney

1935

A Dog of Flanders

as Herr Vanderkloot

1937

1931

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

as Arresting Detective (uncredited)

1939

The Escape

as Dr. Shumaker

1934

1936

The Devil-Doll

as Doctor (uncredited)

1936

Sutter's Gold

as Governor Felipe Vega

1934

Hi, Nellie!

as Danny

1937

Beg, Borrow or Steal

as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)

1936

Laughing at Trouble

as Dr. Larson

1933

Jennie Gerhardt

as Old Weaver (uncredited)

1941

The Nurse's Secret

as Wiley Henderson

1939

Devil's Island

as President of Assize Court

1934

1939

Juarez

as Duc de Morny (uncredited)

1939

Never Say Die

as Man in Charge of Duel

1933

King Kong

as Captain Englehorn

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

as Baron von Bissing

1939

Ninotchka

as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)

1937

On Such a Night

as Horace Darwin

1935

Star of Midnight

as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)

1944

House of Frankenstein

as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)

1934

1937

The Great O'Malley

as Dr. Larson

1946

Sister Kenny

as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)

1948

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

as Police Official (uncredited)

1947

Yankee Fakir

as H.W. Randall

1947

Monsieur Verdoux

as Doctor (uncredited)

1939

1937

West Bound Limited

as Pop Martin

1945

Voice of the Whistler

as Dr. Rose (uncredited)

1932

A Woman Commands

as The General

1942

The Gay Sisters

as Dr. Thomas Bigelow

1941

Underground

as Professor Baumer

1932

Scarlet Dawn

as Plotsky (Uncredited)

1938

Rascals

as Dr. C.M. Garvey

1942

The Mummy's Tomb

as Professor Matthew Norman

1945

Phantoms, Inc.

as Philip Kenneson, Sr.

1948

I, Jane Doe

as Doctor

1946

1936

Sinner Take All

as Theo Drukker (uncredited)

1939

Sabotage

as (uncredited)

1941

Four Mothers

as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)

1928

Napoleon's Barber

as Napoleon's Barber

1929

Black Waters

as Randall

1941

1936

Star for a Night

as Doctor Heimkin

1934

The Countess of Monte Cristo

as Police Commissioner

1939

Woman Doctor

as Dr. Mathews

1931

Mata Hari

as The Cook - Spy

1939

Mystery of the White Room

as Dr. Amos Thornton

1938

Suez

as General Changarnier

1928

Beau Sabreur

as Gen. de Beaujolais

1950

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

as Darius 'Doc' Green

1951

The Lady and the Bandit

as Count Eckhardt

1937

Midnight Madonna

as Vincent Long II

1926

Her Man o' War

as Professor Krantz

1936

Anthony Adverse

as Coachman to Paris

1935

Magnificent Obsession

as Dr. Rochard

1929

Strange Cargo

as Dr. Stecker

1949

Samson and Delilah

as Village Barber

1943

Above Suspicion

as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)

1943

Background to Danger

as Rudick - the Assasin

1943

Mission to Moscow

as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)

1935

1934

1941

Flight from Destiny

as Edvaard Kreindling

1948

1937

The Mighty Treve

as Eben McClelland

1944

Address Unknown

as Professor Schmidt

1949

Barbary Pirate

as Cathcart

1945

A Medal for Benny

as Father Bly (uncredited)

1940

South to Karanga

as Dr. Greenleaf

1943

Bomber's Moon

as Dr. Hartman

1936

Camille

as Creditor Agent (uncredited)

1928

Sins of the Fathers

as The Eye Specialist

1944

1936

The Invisible Ray

as Professor Meiklejohn

1941

One Foot in Heaven

as Board Member (uncredited)

1937

The Road Back

as Ernst's Father

1928

Someone to Love

as Simmons

1936

Murder on a Bridle Path

as Dr. Peters (Gregg's)

1941

The Face Behind the Mask

as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)

Production

1916

The Love Mask

as Director

1915

The Chorus Lady

as Director

1915

1917

The Black Wolf

as Director

1929

Paris Bound

as Writer

1929

Mister Antonio

as Director

1916

For the Defense

as Director

1930

Anna Christie

as Screenplay

1915

The Clue

as Director

1919

The Trap

as Director

1921

Behind Masks

as Director

1917

1917

1917

The Inner Shrine

as Director

1917

The Sacrifice

as Director

1930

Girl of the Port

as Dialogue

1917

Lost and Won

as Director

1917

Castles for Two

as Director

1919

Suspense

as Director

1915

The Secret Sin

as Director

1918

The Only Road

as Director

1918

The Sea Waif

as Director

1919

The American Way

as Director

1916

1918

1917

Unconquered

as Director

1917

1917

1916

Witchcraft

as Director

1916

Witchcraft

as Presenter

1919

Suspense

as Producer

1919

The Black Circle

as Director

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