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.

King Kong

7.6

To Be or Not to Be

7.8

Monsieur Verdoux

7.7

Ninotchka

7.5

Samson and Delilah

6.5

House of Frankenstein

6.0

Camille

7.0

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

6.7

The Son of Kong

5.4

Stage Door

7.0

The Devil-Doll

6.8

The Mummy's Ghost

5.7

The Mummy's Tomb

5.7

Dr. Cyclops

6.1

Superman and the Mole Men

5.3

Adventures of Superman

6.7

Mata Hari

6.2

The Invisible Ray

6.3

All This, and Heaven Too

7.2

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

7.2

The Story of Louis Pasteur

6.8

The Face Behind the Mask

6.5

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

6.8

Night Monster

6.2

Charlie Chan in Egypt

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Anthony Adverse

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Above Suspicion

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Night Key

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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

6.3

Captain America

5.5

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

6.2

Address Unknown

6.4

The Lady in Question

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The Sin of Madelon Claudet

5.9

Background to Danger

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Employees' Entrance

6.3

Star of Midnight

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Juarez

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Four Sons

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Topaze

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Magnificent Obsession

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The Jade Mask

6.1

British Agent

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Kind Lady

6.6

Mission to Moscow

5.2

One Foot in Heaven

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Violence

5.2

No Greater Glory

6.7

Voice of the Whistler

5.7

Suez

5.2

Devil's Island

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Sister Kenny

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Men in White

6.0

The Gorgeous Hussy

5.2

Flesh

5.6

Journal of a Crime

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The Man I Married

6.3

The Conspirators

6.1

The Case of the Howling Dog

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Nazi Agent

6.6

Billy the Kid

4.2

Escape Me Never

4.7

Hi, Nellie!

6.5

Nurse Edith Cavell

6.4

Dangerously They Live

5.9

Before Dawn

5.6

The Shadow Returns

5.3

The Mystery of Marie Roget

5.5

The Crooked Circle

4.8

Letter of Introduction

5.9

The Girl Downstairs

4.5

Shining Victory

5.9

Sons of Liberty

6.0

The Great O'Malley

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Underground

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The Gay Sisters

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The Strange Mr. Gregory

5.1

Sky Murder

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Rendezvous

4.8

The Emperor's Candlesticks

5.2

Captured!

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Suicide Fleet

4.3

Her Private Affair

4.0

Home in Oklahoma

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Life Returns

4.2

Stolen Holiday

6.6

I'll Give a Million

5.7

Never Say Die

6.8

I, Jane Doe

5.9

Sinner Take All

4.8

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

5.6

Girls Dormitory

5.9

Torchy Gets Her Man

5.9

Gildersleeve's Ghost

5.0

Prison Nurse

5.1

Paris Bound

4.4

Flight from Destiny

5.2

Murder on a Bridle Path

5.0

Plan for Destruction

5.8

Secret Enemies

5.2

Gentleman's Fate

5.5

Espionage

6.5

Tornado

5.5

I Am a Thief

6.0

The Nurse's Secret

5.0

Everything Happens at Night

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A Medal for Benny

4.5

The Road Back

7.2

Scattergood Survives a Murder

4.5

The Florentine Dagger

5.7

Under Cover of Night

5.7

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

6.3

Till We Meet Again

5.0

Girl of the Port

5.7

The Country Doctor

6.0

Man Of The People

7.0

Society Smugglers

5.7

Phantoms, Inc.

5.3

Sabotage

7.0

Four Mothers

5.7

The Lady and the Bandit

6.0

The Big Bonanza

5.5

The Tiger Woman

5.5

Fit for a King

5.0

Strictly Unconventional

3.5

Under Two Flags

6.0

Beg, Borrow or Steal

4.5

The Gallant Blade

6.0

Scarlet Dawn

6.5

The Countess of Monte Cristo

6.0

Bomber's Moon

5.5

Return of the Terror

6.0

South of the Border

5.0

Along Came Love

5.0

Typhoon

5.0

The Fountain

9.5

A Bedtime Story

8.0

Mister Antonio

5.0

His Captive Woman

6.0

A Dog of Flanders

7.0

The Escape

5.5

Laughing at Trouble

6.0

Jennie Gerhardt

4.0

Secret of the Chateau

6.0

Yankee Fakir

5.0

West Bound Limited

6.0

A Woman Commands

8.0

Napoleon's Barber

5.0

They Dare Not Love

6.0

Star for a Night

6.0

Woman Doctor

1.0

Strange Cargo

6.0

The Mighty Treve

6.0

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

6.0

Barbary Pirate

6.0

Sins of the Fathers

6.0

Second Wife

0.0

Every Woman's Longing

0.0

The Grand Parade

0.0

The Magnificent Fraud

0.0

Carson City Raiders

0.0

The Masks of the Devil

0.0

City Streets

0.0

Beyond Victory

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The Blue Danube

0.0

Mills of the Gods

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Sutter's Gold

0.0

On Such a Night

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Beyond the Blue Horizon

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Prescription for Romance

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Rascals

6.0

A Guy Could Change

0.0

Black Waters

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Mystery of the White Room

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Beau Sabreur

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Midnight Madonna

0.0

Her Man o' War

0.0

The Great Impersonation

0.0

Let's Talk It Over

0.0

South to Karanga

0.0

Someone to Love

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