
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 Br…
Known For
King Kong
Captain Englehorn
To Be or Not to Be
Polish Official (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux
Doctor (uncredited)
Ninotchka
Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Samson and Delilah
Village Barber
Camille
Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Stage Door
Stage Director
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Karel Maasdam
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Filmography
Acting (186)
Movies (185)
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021as Self - (archive footage)
Superman and the Mole Men
1951as Hospital Superintendent
The Lady and the Bandit
1951as Count Eckhardt
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950as Darius 'Doc' Green
Samson and Delilah
1949as Village Barber
Barbary Pirate
1949as Cathcart
Carson City Raiders
1948as Razor the Barber
I, Jane Doe
1948as Doctor
The Gallant Blade
1948as Major
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948as Dr. MacKenzie
Monsieur Verdoux
1947as Doctor (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947as Karel Maasdam
Yankee Fakir
1947as H.W. Randall
Violence
1947as Pop, apartment concierge
Escape Me Never
1947as The Minister
Home in Oklahoma
1946as Jason Cragmyle
Sister Kenny
1946as Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
A Guy Could Change
1946as Doctor
The Shadow Returns
1946as Michael Hasdon
The Jade Mask
1945as Harper
The Tiger Woman
1945as Coroner
Voice of the Whistler
1945as Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc.
1945as Philip Kenneson, Sr.
A Medal for Benny
1945as Father Bly (uncredited)
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945as William Riker, the Butler
House of Frankenstein
1944as Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
The Conspirators
1944as Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Captain America
1944as Lyman
The Mummy's Ghost
1944as Prof. Matthew Norman
The Big Bonanza
1944as Dr. Ballou
Address Unknown
1944as Professor Schmidt
Gildersleeve's Ghost
1944as Dr. Wells
Plan for Destruction
1943as Karl Ernst Haushofer
Tornado
1943as Linden, Sr.
Above Suspicion
1943as Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Background to Danger
1943as Rudick - the Assasin
Mission to Moscow
1943as General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Bomber's Moon
1943as Dr. Hartman
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942as Sneath
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942as Thaddeus Quentin
To Be or Not to Be
1942as Polish Official (uncredited)
The Mummy's Tomb
1942as Professor Matthew Norman
Nazi Agent
1942as Fritz
Night Monster
1942as Dr. Timmons
The Gay Sisters
1942as Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Secret Enemies
1942as Henry Bremmer
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942as Magistrate
Flight from Destiny
1941as Edvaard Kreindling
Dangerously They Live
1941as Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
One Foot in Heaven
1941as Board Member (uncredited)
They Dare Not Love
1941as Captain
The Face Behind the Mask
1941as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Four Mothers
1941as Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Shining Victory
1941as Dr. Esterhazy
Underground
1941as Professor Baumer
The Nurse's Secret
1941as Wiley Henderson
South to Karanga
1940as Dr. Greenleaf
Typhoon
1940as Doctor
All This, and Heaven Too
1940as Police Official (uncredited)
The Man I Married
1940as Friehof
Dr. Cyclops
1940as Prof. Kendall
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940as Old Man
Sky Murder
1940as Dr. Crattan
The Lady in Question
1940as President
The Magnificent Fraud
1939as Mendietta Garcia
Juarez
1939as Duc de Morny (uncredited)
Ninotchka
1939as Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Society Smugglers
1939as Jones
Sabotage
1939as (uncredited)
Woman Doctor
1939as Dr. Mathews
Devil's Island
1939as President of Assize Court
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939as Baron von Bissing
Our Neighbors - The Carters
1939as Dr. Proser
Never Say Die
1939as Man in Charge of Duel
South of the Border
1939as Don Diego Mendoza
Mystery of the White Room
1939as Dr. Amos Thornton
Sons of Liberty
1939as Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
The Escape
1939as Dr. Shumaker
Everything Happens at Night
1939as Pharmacist
Letter of Introduction
1938as Second Doctor (uncredited)
City Streets
1938as Dr. Ferenc Waller
Rascals
1938as Dr. C.M. Garvey
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938as Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938as The Professor - Henchman
The Girl Downstairs
1938as Police Official (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million
1938as Prefect of Police
Suez
1938as General Changarnier
Prison Nurse
1938as Doctor Hartman
Stage Door
1937as Stage Director
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937as Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Stolen Holiday
1937as Rainer
Under Cover of Night
1937as Rudolph Brehmer
Espionage
1937as Von Cram
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937as Pavloff
Night Key
1937as Carl - gang engineer
Midnight Madonna
1937as Vincent Long II
Prescription for Romance
1937as Jozsef
Fit for a King
1937as Kurtz
The Mighty Treve
1937as Eben McClelland
The Road Back
1937as Ernst's Father
Man Of The People
1937as Robinson
The Great O'Malley
1937as Dr. Larson
West Bound Limited
1937as Pop Martin
On Such a Night
1937as Horace Darwin
The Devil-Doll
1936as Doctor (uncredited)
Girls' Dormitory
1936as Dr. Hoffenreich
Laughing at Trouble
1936as Dr. Larson
Camille
1936as Creditor Agent (uncredited)
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936as Dr. Pfeiffer
Under Two Flags
1936as French General
Along Came Love
1936as Planetarium Lecturer
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936as Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936as Henry Strand (uncredited)
Star for a Night
1936as Doctor Heimkin
The Country Doctor
1936as Dr. Paul Luke
Sinner Take All
1936as Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936as Dr. Peters
Second Wife
1936as Headmaster
Sutter's Gold
1936as Governor Felipe Vega
The Invisible Ray
1936as Professor Meiklejohn
Anthony Adverse
1936as Coachman to Paris
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936as Dr. Coate
Till We Meet Again
1936as Colonel Von Diegel
Straight from the Heart
1935as Coroner
The Great Impersonation
1935as Dr. Trenk
Rendezvous
1935as Dr. R.A. Jackson
Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935as Dr. Jaipur
Magnificent Obsession
1935as Dr. Rochard
Star of Midnight
1935as Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
The Casino Murder Case
1935as Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
Kind Lady
1935as Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
A Dog of Flanders
1935as Herr Vanderkloot
Life Returns
1935as Dr. James
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935as 2nd Assistant Director
The Florentine Dagger
1935as Von Stein
Let's Talk It Over
1934as Richards
Mills of the Gods
1934as Barrett
British Agent
1934as Mr. X
Hi, Nellie!
1934as Danny
I Am a Thief
1934as Max Bolen
The Fountain
1934as Doctor
Secret of the Chateau
1934as Auctioneer
No Greater Glory
1934as Doctor
Men in White
1934as Doctor (uncredited)
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934as Dr. Carl Cooper
Return of the Terror
1934as Franz Reinhardt
Journal of a Crime
1934as Herr Winterstein
The Countess of Monte Cristo
1934as Police Commissioner
The Line-Up
1934as Abraham Schultz (uncredited)
A Bedtime Story
1933as Aristide
King Kong
1933as Captain Englehorn
The Son of Kong
1933as Captain Englehorn
Before Dawn
1933as Joe Valerie
Topaze
1933as Dr. Stegg
Captured!
1933as Herr Hauptman
Employees' Entrance
1933as Garfinkle
Jennie Gerhardt
1933as Old Weaver (uncredited)
Flesh
1932as Warden in Germany (uncredited)
Scarlet Dawn
1932as Plotsky (Uncredited)
The Crooked Circle
1932as Rankin
A Woman Commands
1932as The General
Mata Hari
1931as The Cook - Spy
Gentleman's Fate
1931as Francesco Tomasulo
Suicide Fleet
1931as Holtzmann
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931as Arresting Detective (uncredited)
Beyond Victory
1931as German Hospital Chief
The Grand Parade
1930
Strictly Unconventional
1930as Duke of Brocklehurst
Billy the Kid
1930as General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Girl of the Port
1930
Every Woman's Longing
1930
Black Waters
1929as Randall
Her Private Affair
1929as State's Attorney
Mister Antonio
1929as Milton Jorny
Paris Bound
1929
His Captive Woman
1929
Strange Cargo
1929as Dr. Stecker
Someone to Love
1928as Simmons
Beau Sabreur
1928as Gen. de Beaujolais
Sins of the Fathers
1928as The Eye Specialist
Four Sons
1928as The Schoolmaster
Napoleon's Barber
1928as Napoleon's Barber
The Masks of the Devil
1928as Count Zellner
The Blue Danube
1928as Baron
Her Man o' War
1926as Professor Krantz
Television (1)
Crew (39)
Movies (39)
We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931Director
Anna Christie
1930Screenplay
Girl of the Port
1930Dialogue
Mister Antonio
1929Director
Paris Bound
1929Writer
Idle Hands
1921Director
Behind Masks
1921Director
The American Way
1919Director
The Trap
1919Director
Suspense
1919Director
The Battler
1919Director
The Black Circle
1919Director
The Sea Waif
1918Director
The Only Road
1918Director
The Prodigal Wife
1918Director
Castles for Two
1917Director
Betty to the Rescue
1917Director
The Sacrifice
1917Director
The Inner Shrine
1917Director
The Black Wolf
1917Director
An American Widow
1917Director
Lost and Won
1917Director
Unconquered
1917Director
The Trouble Buster
1917Director
The Eternal Mother
1917Director
For the Defense
1916Director
The Sowers
1916Director
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916Director
Witchcraft
1916Director
Alien Souls
1916Director
Public Opinion
1916Director
The Love Mask
1916Director
The Storm
1916Director
The Case of Becky
1915Director
The Secret Sin
1915Director
The Chorus Lady
1915Director
The Secret Orchard
1915Director
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915Director
The Clue
1915Director
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