Frank Reicher
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.
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
Adventures of Superman
Superman and the Mole-Men
The Lady and the Bandit
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Samson and Delilah
Barbary Pirate
The Gallant Blade
I, Jane Doe
Carson City Raiders
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Escape Me Never
Monsieur Verdoux
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Violence
Yankee Fakir
Home in Oklahoma
Sister Kenny
The Shadow Returns
A Guy Could Change
The Tiger Woman
Voice of the Whistler
Phantoms, Inc.
A Medal for Benny
Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
The Strange Mr. Gregory
The Big Bonanza
House of Frankenstein
The Conspirators
The Mummy's Ghost
Address Unknown
Captain America
Tornado
Bomber's Moon
Background to Danger
Above Suspicion
Mission to Moscow
Plan for Destruction
The Mummy's Tomb
Night Monster
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Secret Enemies
The Gay Sisters
Beyond the Blue Horizon
The Mystery of Marie Roget
To Be or Not to Be
Nazi Agent
Dangerously They Live
One Foot in Heaven
Underground
Shining Victory
The Nurse's Secret
They Dare Not Love
Flight from Destiny
Four Mothers
Sky Murder
The Man I Married
The Lady in Question
South to Karanga
All This, and Heaven Too
Typhoon
Dr. Cyclops
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Everything Happens at Night
South of the Border
Ninotchka
Sabotage
The Escape
Nurse Edith Cavell
The Magnificent Fraud
Juarez
Sons of Liberty
Mystery of the White Room
Never Say Die
Society Smugglers
Woman Doctor
Devil's Island
The Girl Downstairs
Torchy Gets Her Man
Suez
Letter of Introduction
I'll Give a Million
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
City Streets
Rascals
Prison Nurse
Prescription for Romance
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Stage Door
Fit for a King
On Such a Night
West Bound Limited
The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Road Back
Night Key
Espionage
The Great O'Malley
Stolen Holiday
Man Of The People
The Mighty Treve
Under Cover of Night
Camille
Sinner Take All
Laughing at Trouble
Star for a Night
Anthony Adverse
Second Wife
Girls Dormitory
The Devil-Doll
Under Two Flags
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Till We Meet Again
The Country Doctor
Sutter's Gold
The Story of Louis Pasteur
The Invisible Ray
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Magnificent Obsession
The Great Impersonation
Kind Lady
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Rendezvous
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Star of Midnight
The Florentine Dagger
A Dog of Flanders
Life Returns
Mills of the Gods
Secret of the Chateau
I Am a Thief
The Case of the Howling Dog
British Agent
The Fountain
Return of the Terror
Let's Talk It Over
Men in White
No Greater Glory
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Journal of a Crime
Hi, Nellie!
The Son of Kong
Captured!
Before Dawn
Jennie Gerhardt
A Bedtime Story
King Kong
Topaze
Employees' Entrance
Flesh
Scarlet Dawn
The Crooked Circle
A Woman Commands
Mata Hari
Suicide Fleet
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
We're switching to Hollywood
Beyond Victory
Gentleman's Fate
Anna Christie
Billy the Kid
Every woman's longing
Strictly Unconventional
Girl of the Port
Mister Antonio
Her Private Affair
Paris Bound
Black Waters
Strange Cargo
His Captive Woman
Sins of the Fathers
Napoleon's Barber
The Masks of the Devil
The Blue Danube
Four Sons
Beau Sabreur
Her Man o' War
Behind Masks
The Trap
Suspense
The Only Road
An American Widow
The Eternal Mother
The Inner Shrine
Castles for Two
The Sacrifice
The Black Wolf
Lost and Won
The Love Mask
The Secret Sin
The Chorus Lady
The Case of Becky
The Clue