Frank Reicher

Known For: Acting
Born: December 2, 1875
Place of Birth: Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Died: January 19, 1965

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 Broad…

Filmography

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

2021 · Self - (archive footage)

Adventures of Superman

1952

Superman and the Mole Men

1951 · Hospital Superintendent

The Lady and the Bandit

1951 · Count Eckhardt

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

1950 · Darius 'Doc' Green

Samson and Delilah

1949 · Village Barber

Barbary Pirate

1949 · Cathcart

The Gallant Blade

1948 · Major

I, Jane Doe

1948 · Doctor

Carson City Raiders

1948 · Razor the Barber

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

1948 · Dr. MacKenzie

Escape Me Never

1947 · The Minister

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947 · Maasdam

Monsieur Verdoux

1947 · Doctor (uncredited)

Violence

1947 · Pop, apartment concierge

Yankee Fakir

1947 · H.W. Randall

Home in Oklahoma

1946 · Jason Cragmyle

Sister Kenny

1946 · Dr. Chuter (uncredited)

The Shadow Returns

1946 · Michael Hasdon

A Guy Could Change

1946 · Doctor

The Tiger Woman

1945 · Coroner

Voice of the Whistler

1945 · Dr. Rose (uncredited)

Phantoms, Inc.

1945 · Philip Kenneson, Sr.

Blonde Ransom

1945 · Judge

A Medal for Benny

1945 · Father Bly (uncredited)

The Jade Mask

1945 · Harper

The Strange Mr. Gregory

1945 · William Riker, the Butler

The Big Bonanza

1944 · Dr. Ballou

House of Frankenstein

1944 · Frederick Ullman

The Conspirators

1944 · Casino Attendant (uncredited)

The Mummy's Ghost

1944 · Prof. Matthew Norman

Gildersleeve's Ghost

1944 · Dr. Wells

Address Unknown

1944 · Professor Schmidt

Captain America

1944 · Lyman

Tornado

1943 · Linden, Sr.

Bomber's Moon

1943 · Dr. Hartman

Background to Danger

1943 · Rudick - the Assasin

Yanks Ahoy

1943 · German Soldier (uncredited)

Above Suspicion

1943 · Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)

Mission to Moscow

1943 · General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)

Plan for Destruction

1943 · Karl Ernst Haushofer

Night Monster

1942 · Dr. Timmons

The Mummy's Tomb

1942 · Professor Matthew Norman

Scattergood Survives a Murder

1942 · Thaddeus Quentin

Secret Enemies

1942 · Henry Bremmer

The Gay Sisters

1942 · Dr. Thomas Bigelow

Beyond the Blue Horizon

1942 · Sneath

The Mystery of Marie Roget

1942 · Magistrate

To Be or Not to Be

1942 · Polish Official (uncredited)

Nazi Agent

1942 · Fritz

Dangerously They Live

1941 · Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler

One Foot in Heaven

1941 · Board Member (uncredited)

Underground

1941 · Professor Baumer

Shining Victory

1941 · Dr. Esterhazy

The Nurse's Secret

1941 · Wiley Henderson

They Dare Not Love

1941 · Captain

Flight from Destiny

1941 · Edvaard Kreindling

The Face Behind the Mask

1941 · Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)

Four Mothers

1941 · Festival Committee Member (uncredited)

Sky Murder

1940 · Dr. Crattan

The Man I Married

1940 · Friehof

The Lady in Question

1940 · President

South to Karanga

1940 · Dr. Greenleaf

All This, and Heaven Too

1940 · Police Official (uncredited)

Typhoon

1940 · Doctor

Dr. Cyclops

1940 · Prof. Kendall

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940 · Old Man

Everything Happens at Night

1939 · Pharmacist

South of the Border

1939 · Don Diego Mendoza

Our Neighbors - The Carters

1939 · Dr. Proser

Ninotchka

1939 · Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)

Sabotage

1939 · (uncredited)

The Escape

1939 · Dr. Shumaker

Nurse Edith Cavell

1939 · Baron von Bissing

The Magnificent Fraud

1939 · Mendietta Garcia

Juarez

1939 · Duc de Morny (uncredited)

Sons of Liberty

1939 · Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)

Mystery of the White Room

1939 · Dr. Amos Thornton

Never Say Die

1939 · Man in Charge of Duel

Society Smugglers

1939 · Jones

Woman Doctor

1939 · Dr. Mathews

Devil's Island

1939 · President of Assize Court

The Girl Downstairs

1938 · Police Official (uncredited)

Torchy Gets Her Man

1938 · The Professor - Henchman

Suez

1938 · General Changarnier

Letter of Introduction

1938 · Second Doctor (uncredited)

I'll Give a Million

1938 · Prefect of Police

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938 · Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)

City Streets

1938 · Dr. Ferenc Waller

Rascals

1938 · Dr. C.M. Garvey

Prison Nurse

1938 · Doctor Hartman

Prescription for Romance

1937 · Jozsef

Beg, Borrow or Steal

1937 · Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)

Stage Door

1937 · Stage Director

Fit for a King

1937 · Kurtz

On Such a Night

1937 · Horace Darwin

West Bound Limited

1937 · Pop Martin

The Emperor's Candlesticks

1937 · Pavloff

Midnight Madonna

1937 · Vincent Long II

The Road Back

1937 · Ernst's Father

Night Key

1937 · Carl - gang engineer

Espionage

1937 · Von Cram

The Great O'Malley

1937 · Dr. Larson

Stolen Holiday

1937 · Rainer

Man Of The People

1937 · Robinson

The Mighty Treve

1937 · Eben McClelland

Under Cover of Night

1937 · Rudolph Brehmer

Camille

1936 · Creditor Agent (uncredited)

Sinner Take All

1936 · Theo Drukker (uncredited)

Laughing at Trouble

1936 · Dr. Larson

Along Came Love

1936 · Planetarium Lecturer

The Gorgeous Hussy

1936 · Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)

Star for a Night

1936 · Doctor Heimkin

Anthony Adverse

1936 · Coachman to Paris

Second Wife

1936 · Headmaster

Girls' Dormitory

1936 · Dr. Hoffenreich

The Devil-Doll

1936 · Doctor (uncredited)

Under Two Flags

1936 · French General

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936 · Henry Strand (uncredited)

Murder on a Bridle Path

1936 · Dr. Peters

Till We Meet Again

1936 · Colonel Von Diegel

The Country Doctor

1936 · Dr. Paul Luke

Sutter's Gold

1936 · Governor Felipe Vega

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936 · Dr. Pfeiffer

The Invisible Ray

1936 · Professor Meiklejohn

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

1936 · Dr. Coate

Magnificent Obsession

1935 · Dr. Rochard

The Great Impersonation

1935 · Dr. Trenk

Kind Lady

1935 · Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

1935 · 2nd Assistant Director

Rendezvous

1935 · Dr. R.A. Jackson

Charlie Chan in Egypt

1935 · Dr. Jaipur

Star of Midnight

1935 · Abe Ohlman (uncredited)

The Florentine Dagger

1935 · Von Stein

A Dog of Flanders

1935 · Herr Vanderkloot

Straight from the Heart

1935 · Coroner

The Casino Murder Case

1935 · Assistant Coroner (uncredited)

Life Returns

1935 · Dr. James

Mills of the Gods

1934 · Barrett

Secret of the Chateau

1934 · Auctioneer

I Am a Thief

1934 · Max Bolen

The Case of the Howling Dog

1934 · Dr. Carl Cooper

British Agent

1934 · Mr. X

The Fountain

1934 · Doctor

Return of the Terror

1934 · Franz Reinhardt

Let's Talk It Over

1934 · Richards

The Line-Up

1934 · Abraham Schultz (uncredited)

Men in White

1934 · Doctor (uncredited)

No Greater Glory

1934 · Doctor

The Countess of Monte Cristo

1934 · Police Commissioner

Journal of a Crime

1934 · Herr Winterstein

Hi, Nellie!

1934 · Danny

The Son of Kong

1933 · Captain Englehorn

Captured!

1933 · Herr Hauptman

Before Dawn

1933 · Joe Valerie

Jennie Gerhardt

1933 · Old Weaver (uncredited)

A Bedtime Story

1933 · Aristide

King Kong

1933 · Captain Englehorn

Topaze

1933 · Dr. Stegg

Employees' Entrance

1933 · Garfinkle

Flesh

1932 · Warden in Germany (uncredited)

Scarlet Dawn

1932 · Plotsky (Uncredited)

The Crooked Circle

1932 · Rankin

A Woman Commands

1932 · The General

Mata Hari

1931 · The Cook - Spy

Suicide Fleet

1931 · Holtzmann

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1931 · Arresting Detective (uncredited)

We’re Switching to Hollywood

1931 · Director

Beyond Victory

1931 · German Hospital Chief

Gentleman's Fate

1931 · Francesco Tomasulo

Anna Christie

1930 · Screenplay

Billy the Kid

1930 · General Lew Wallace (uncredited)

Every Woman's Longing

1930

Strictly Unconventional

1930 · Duke of Brocklehurst

The Grand Parade

1930

Girl of the Port

1930 · , Dialogue

Mister Antonio

1929 · Milton Jorny, Director

Her Private Affair

1929 · State's Attorney

Paris Bound

1929 · , Writer

Black Waters

1929 · Randall

Strange Cargo

1929 · Dr. Stecker

His Captive Woman

1929

Sins of the Fathers

1928 · The Eye Specialist

Someone to Love

1928 · Simmons

Napoleon's Barber

1928 · Napoleon's Barber

The Masks of the Devil

1928 · Count Zellner

The Blue Danube

1928 · Baron

Four Sons

1928 · The Schoolmaster

Beau Sabreur

1928 · Gen. de Beaujolais

Her Man o' War

1926 · Professor Krantz

Behind Masks

1921 · Director

Idle Hands

1921 · Director, Producer

The Black Circle

1919 · Director

The Battler

1919 · Director

The Trap

1919 · Director

The American Way

1919 · Director

Suspense

1919 · Director, Producer

The Sea Waif

1918 · Director

The Prodigal Wife

The Prodigal Wife

1918 · Director

The Only Road

1918 · Director

An American Widow

1917 · Director

The Eternal Mother

1917 · Director

The Trouble Buster

1917 · Director

The Inner Shrine

1917 · Director

Unconquered

1917 · Director

Castles for Two

1917 · Director

The Sacrifice

1917 · Director

The Black Wolf

1917 · Director

Lost and Won

1917 · Director

Betty to the Rescue

1917 · Director, Producer

Witchcraft

1916 · Director, Presenter

The Storm

1916 · Director

Public Opinion

1916 · Director

Alien Souls

1916 · Director

The Love Mask

1916 · Director

The Sowers

1916 · Director

For the Defense

1916 · Director

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Pudd'nhead Wilson

1916 · Director

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

1915 · Director

The Secret Sin

1915 · Director

The Chorus Lady

1915 · Director

The Case of Becky

1915 · Director

The Secret Orchard

1915 · Director

The Clue

1915 · Director

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