Frank Reicher

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 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.

Personal info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1875-12-02

Place of birth

Munich, German Empire [now Germany]

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Cast

Dr. Cyclops

Dr. Cyclops

1940

6.15

Night Key

Night Key

1937

6.13

Second Wife

Second Wife

1936

0.00

Violence

Violence

1947

5.20

Stage Door

Stage Door

1937

7.00

Nazi Agent

Nazi Agent

1942

6.60

Sky Murder

Sky Murder

1940

6.30

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

1935

4.80

Men in White

Men in White

1934

6.00

Flesh

Flesh

1932

5.60

Life Returns

Life Returns

1935

4.20

Before Dawn

Before Dawn

1933

5.60

Topaze

Topaze

1933

6.10

Captured!

Captured!

1933

5.60

Typhoon

Typhoon

1940

5.00

Espionage

Espionage

1937

6.50

Tornado

Tornado

1943

5.50

The Fountain

The Fountain

1934

9.50

Prison Nurse

Prison Nurse

1938

5.10

City Streets

City Streets

1938

0.00

I Am a Thief

I Am a Thief

1934

6.00

Four Sons

Four Sons

1928

7.23

Kind Lady

Kind Lady

1935

6.60

Paris Bound

Paris Bound

1929

5.00

The Escape

The Escape

1939

5.50

Hi, Nellie!

Hi, Nellie!

1934

6.50

Juarez

Juarez

1939

6.50

King Kong

King Kong

1933

7.59

Ninotchka

Ninotchka

1939

7.50

Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny

1946

6.50

Yankee Fakir

Yankee Fakir

1947

5.00

Underground

Underground

1941

6.10

Scarlet Dawn

Scarlet Dawn

1932

6.50

Rascals

Rascals

1938

6.00

I, Jane Doe

I, Jane Doe

1948

5.90

Sabotage

Sabotage

1939

7.00

Four Mothers

Four Mothers

1941

6.20

Black Waters

Black Waters

1929

0.00

Woman Doctor

Woman Doctor

1939

1.00

Mata Hari

Mata Hari

1931

6.20

Suez

Suez

1938

5.19

Beau Sabreur

Beau Sabreur

1928

0.00

Camille

Camille

1936

7.02