Frank Reicher
Acting
Born 1875-12-02
Died 1965-01-19
Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
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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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Acting
52 credits
King Kong
To Be or Not to Be
Samson and Delilah
The Son of Kong
Ninotchka
Monsieur Verdoux
Stage Door
Mata Hari
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
House of Frankenstein
Juarez
Camille
Hi, Nellie!
Before Dawn
Mission to Moscow
Captain America
The Devil-Doll
Watch on the Rhine
All This, and Heaven Too
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Dr. Cyclops
Superman and the Mole Men
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Above Suspicion
Sister Kenny
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Men in White
Phantoms, Inc.
The Mummy's Ghost
British Agent
The Face Behind the Mask
The Great O'Malley
The Gorgeous Hussy
Devil's Island
I, Jane Doe
The Country Doctor
Nazi Agent
Four Mothers
The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Lady in Question
The Conspirators
City Streets
Four Sons
Sinner Take All
Rendezvous
Dangerously They Live
Escape Me Never
Nurse Edith Cavell
Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
Background to Danger
One Foot in Heaven
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
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