Frank Reicher
Acting
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.
Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
Age 75 (now 89)
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
Age 145 (now 89) Superman and the Mole Men
as Hospital Superintendent
Age 75 (now 89)
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as William Riker, the Butler
Age 69 (now 89)
Mission to Moscow
as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Age 67 (now 89)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Thaddeus Quentin
Age 66 (now 89)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Age 65 (now 89)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Police Official (uncredited)
Age 64 (now 89)
Letter of Introduction
as Second Doctor (uncredited)
Age 62 (now 89)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Age 62 (now 89)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Age 62 (now 89)
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
Age 60 (now 89)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as 2nd Assistant Director
Age 59 (now 89)
The Casino Murder Case
as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Age 59 (now 89)
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Police Commissioner
Age 58 (now 89)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
Age 55 (now 89)
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Also Known As
George H. Lloyd, Frank Reichert, Franz Reicher
IMDB
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