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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 2, 1875
Died
January 19, 1965
Place of Birth
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Also Known As
- George H. Lloyd
- Frank Reichert
- Franz Reicher
Frank Reicher
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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.
Known For
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Self - (archive footage)
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021
6.6
Adventures of Superman
1952
5.3
Hospital Superintendent
Superman and the Mole Men
1951
6.0
Count Eckhardt
The Lady and the Bandit
1951
6.8
Darius 'Doc' Green
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950
6.5
Village Barber
Samson and Delilah
1949
6.0
Cathcart
Barbary Pirate
1949
6.0
Major
The Gallant Blade
1948
6.1
Doctor
I, Jane Doe
1948
0.0
Razor the Barber
Carson City Raiders
1948
Credits
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Adventures of Superman
1952
6.6
Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
1951
5.3
The Lady and the Bandit
as Count Eckhardt
1951
6.0
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
as Darius 'Doc' Green
1950
6.8
Samson and Delilah
as Village Barber
1949
6.5
Barbary Pirate
as Cathcart
1949
6.0
The Gallant Blade
as Major
1948
6.0
I, Jane Doe
as Doctor
1948
6.1
Carson City Raiders
as Razor the Barber
1948
0.0
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Dr. MacKenzie
1948
6.0
Escape Me Never
as The Minister
1947
4.3
Monsieur Verdoux
as Doctor (uncredited)
1947
7.7
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Maasdam
1947
6.8
Violence
as Pop, apartment concierge
1947
5.2
Yankee Fakir
as H.W. Randall
1947
5.0
Home in Oklahoma
as Jason Cragmyle
1946
6.2
Sister Kenny
as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
1946
6.8
The Shadow Returns
as Michael Hasdon
1946
5.3
A Guy Could Change
as Doctor
1946
0.0
The Tiger Woman
as Coroner
1945
5.3
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
1945
5.7
Phantoms, Inc.
as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
1945
5.5
A Medal for Benny
as Father Bly (uncredited)
1945
4.5
The Jade Mask
as Harper
1945
6.1
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
1945
5.1
The Big Bonanza
as Dr. Ballou
1944
5.5
House of Frankenstein
as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
1944
6.0
The Conspirators
as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
1944
6.0
The Mummy's Ghost
as Prof. Matthew Norman
1944
5.6
Address Unknown
as Professor Schmidt
1944
6.4
Gildersleeve's Ghost
as Dr. Wells
1944
5.0
Captain America
as Lyman
1944
5.4
Tornado
as Linden, Sr.
1943
5.5
Bomber's Moon
as Dr. Hartman
1943
5.7
Background to Danger
as Rudick - the Assasin
1943
6.6
Above Suspicion
as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
1943
6.1
Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
1943
5.3
Plan for Destruction
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
1943
6.0
The Mummy's Tomb
as Professor Matthew Norman
1942
5.5
Night Monster
as Dr. Timmons
1942
6.2
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
1942
4.5
Secret Enemies
as Henry Bremmer
1942
5.2
The Gay Sisters
as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
1942
6.5
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Sneath
1942
5.5
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Magistrate
1942
5.5
To Be or Not to Be
as Polish Official (uncredited)
1942
7.8
Nazi Agent
as Fritz
1942
6.6
Dangerously They Live
as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
1941
5.9
One Foot in Heaven
as Board Member (uncredited)
1941
6.6
Underground
as Professor Baumer
1941
6.1
Shining Victory
as Dr. Esterhazy
1941
5.9
The Nurse's Secret
as Wiley Henderson
1941
5.0
They Dare Not Love
as Captain
1941
6.0
Flight from Destiny
as Edvaard Kreindling
1941
4.7
The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
1941
6.5
Four Mothers
as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
1941
6.2
Sky Murder
as Dr. Crattan
1940
6.3
The Man I Married
as Friehof
1940
6.0
The Lady in Question
as President
1940
6.6
South to Karanga
as Dr. Greenleaf
1940
0.0
All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
1940
7.2
Typhoon
as Doctor
1940
5.0
Dr. Cyclops
as Prof. Kendall
1940
6.2
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Old Man
1940
6.5
Everything Happens at Night
as Pharmacist
1939
4.1
South of the Border
as Don Diego Mendoza
1939
5.0
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Dr. Proser
1939
0.0
Ninotchka
as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
1939
7.5
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
1939
7.0
The Escape
as Dr. Shumaker
1939
5.5
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Baron von Bissing
1939
6.4
The Magnificent Fraud
as Mendietta Garcia
1939
0.0
Juarez
as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
1939
6.5
Sons of Liberty
as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Amos Thornton
1939
0.0
Never Say Die
as Man in Charge of Duel
1939
6.8
Society Smugglers
as Jones
1939
5.6
Woman Doctor
as Dr. Mathews
1939
1.0
Devil's Island
as President of Assize Court
1939
5.4
The Girl Downstairs
as Police Official (uncredited)
1938
4.1
Torchy Gets Her Man
as The Professor - Henchman
1938
5.6
Suez
as General Changarnier
1938
5.2
Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
1938
5.7
I'll Give a Million
as Prefect of Police
1938
5.7
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
1938
7.1
City Streets
as Dr. Ferenc Waller
1938
0.0
Rascals
as Dr. C.M. Garvey
1938
6.0
Prison Nurse
as Doctor Hartman
1938
5.1
Prescription for Romance
as Jozsef
1937
0.0
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
1937
5.0
Stage Door
as Stage Director
1937
7.0
Fit for a King
as Kurtz
1937
5.0
On Such a Night
as Horace Darwin
1937
0.0
West Bound Limited
as Pop Martin
1937
6.0
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Pavloff
1937
4.7
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Midnight Madonna
as Vincent Long II
1937
0.0
The Road Back
as Ernst's Father
1937
5.7
Night Key
as Carl - gang engineer
1937
6.2
Espionage
as Von Cram
1937
6.8
The Great O'Malley
as Dr. Larson
1937
6.7
Stolen Holiday
as Rainer
1937
6.1
Man Of The People
as Robinson
1937
7.0
The Mighty Treve
as Eben McClelland
1937
6.0
Under Cover of Night
as Rudolph Brehmer
1937
5.7
Camille
as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
1936
6.9
Sinner Take All
as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
1936
4.3
Laughing at Trouble
as Dr. Larson
1936
6.0
Along Came Love
as Planetarium Lecturer
1936
5.0
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
1936
5.3
Star for a Night
as Doctor Heimkin
1936
6.0
Anthony Adverse
as Coachman to Paris
1936
5.7
Second Wife
as Headmaster
1936
0.0
Girls' Dormitory
as Dr. Hoffenreich
1936
5.9
The Devil-Doll
as Doctor (uncredited)
1936
6.8
Under Two Flags
as French General
1936
6.0
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Henry Strand (uncredited)
1936
6.2
Murder on a Bridle Path
as Dr. Peters
1936
5.0
Till We Meet Again
as Colonel Von Diegel
1936
4.5
The Country Doctor
as Dr. Paul Luke
1936
6.0
Sutter's Gold
as Governor Felipe Vega
1936
0.0
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Pfeiffer
1936
6.8
The Invisible Ray
as Professor Meiklejohn
1936
6.3
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Dr. Coate
1936
5.6
Magnificent Obsession
as Dr. Rochard
1935
7.3
The Great Impersonation
as Dr. Trenk
1935
8.0
Kind Lady
as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
1935
6.6
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
1935
6.3
Rendezvous
as Dr. R.A. Jackson
1935
4.3
Charlie Chan in Egypt
as Dr. Jaipur
1935
6.8
Star of Midnight
as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
1935
5.8
The Florentine Dagger
as Von Stein
1935
5.7
A Dog of Flanders
as Herr Vanderkloot
1935
7.0
Straight from the Heart
as Coroner
1935
0.0
The Casino Murder Case
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
1935
6.5
Life Returns
as Dr. James
1935
4.2
Mills of the Gods
as Barrett
1934
0.0
Secret of the Chateau
as Auctioneer
1934
5.0
I Am a Thief
as Max Bolen
1934
6.0
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Dr. Carl Cooper
1934
6.2
British Agent
as Mr. X
1934
5.6
The Fountain
as Doctor
1934
9.8
Return of the Terror
as Franz Reinhardt
1934
6.0
Let's Talk It Over
as Richards
1934
0.0
Men in White
as Doctor (uncredited)
1934
6.0
No Greater Glory
as Doctor
1934
6.6
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
1934
6.0
Journal of a Crime
as Herr Winterstein
1934
5.7
Hi, Nellie!
as Danny
1934
6.5
The Son of Kong
as Captain Englehorn
1933
5.4
Captured!
as Herr Hauptman
1933
5.2
Before Dawn
as Joe Valerie
1933
5.6
Jennie Gerhardt
as Old Weaver (uncredited)
1933
4.0
A Bedtime Story
as Aristide
1933
4.5
King Kong
as Captain Englehorn
1933
7.6
Topaze
as Dr. Stegg
1933
5.9
Employees' Entrance
as Garfinkle
1933
6.1
Flesh
as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
1932
5.6
Scarlet Dawn
as Plotsky (Uncredited)
1932
6.5
The Crooked Circle
as Rankin
1932
4.8
A Woman Commands
as The General
1932
8.0
Mata Hari
as The Cook - Spy
1931
6.2
Suicide Fleet
as Holtzmann
1931
4.3
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
1931
5.7
Beyond Victory
as German Hospital Chief
1931
0.0
Gentleman's Fate
as Francesco Tomasulo
1931
6.0
Billy the Kid
as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1930
4.3
Every Woman's Longing
1930
0.0
Strictly Unconventional
as Duke of Brocklehurst
1930
2.7
The Grand Parade
1930
0.0
Girl of the Port
1930
5.7
Mister Antonio
as Milton Jorny
1929
5.0
Her Private Affair
as State's Attorney
1929
3.6
Paris Bound
1929
4.4
Black Waters
as Randall
1929
0.0
Strange Cargo
as Dr. Stecker
1929
6.0
His Captive Woman
1929
6.0
Sins of the Fathers
as The Eye Specialist
1928
6.0
Someone to Love
as Simmons
1928
0.0
Napoleon's Barber
as Napoleon's Barber
1928
5.0
The Masks of the Devil
as Count Zellner
1928
0.0
The Blue Danube
as Baron
1928
0.0
Four Sons
as The Schoolmaster
1928
7.2
Beau Sabreur
as Gen. de Beaujolais
1928
0.0
Her Man o' War
as Professor Krantz
1926
0.0