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Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher

Birthday: 1875-12-02 | Place of Birth: München, Germany

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2001
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

as    Dr. Coate

1951
Superman and the Mole-Men

as    Hospital Superintendent

1948
Carson City Raiders

as    Razor the Barber

1946
Home in Oklahoma

as    Jason Cragmyle

1946
The Shadow Returns

as    Michael Hasdon

1945
Phantoms, Inc.

as    Philip Kenneson, Sr.

1944
The Big Bonanza

as    Dr. Ballou

1944
Gildersleeve's Ghost

as    Dr. Wells

1944
The Mummy's Ghost

as    Prof. Matthew Norman

1943
Plan for Destruction

as    Karl Ernst Haushofer

1942
Night Monster

as    Dr. Timmons

1942
Nazi Agent

as    Fritz

1942
Secret Enemies

as    Henry Bremmer

1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget

as    Magistrate

1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon

as    Sneath

1941
Dangerously They Live

as    Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler

1940
Typhoon

as    Doctor

1940
Sky Murder

as    Dr. Crattan

1940
The Lady in Question

as    President

1940
Dr. Cyclops

as    Prof. Kendall

1939
South of the Border

as    Don Diego Mendoza

1939
The Escape

as    Dr. Shumaker

1939
Sons of Liberty

as    Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)

1938
Torchy Gets Her Man

as    The Professor - Henchman

1937
Night Key

as    Carl - gang engineer

1937
Prescription for Romance

as    Jozsef

1937
West Bound Limited

as    Pop Martin

1937
Stolen Holiday

as    Rainer

1936
Girls Dormitory

as    Dr. Hoffenreich

1936
Under Two Flags

as    French General