Born: December 2, 1875 – Died: January 19, 1965
Frank Reicher, the acclaimed actor known for his role as Capt. Englehorn in the iconic films "King Kong" (1933) and its sequel "Son of Kong" (1933), was born in Munich, Germany, on December 2, 1875. His journey to fame began with a background in stage acting and directing in Europe before making his mark in New York in 1899. After a successful stint on the New York stage, he ventured to Hollywood in 1915, where he not only acted but also directed films. Reicher's prolific career spanned over 200 film roles, and he became highly regarded in Hollywood as both a filmmaker and an acting teacher. He excelled in portraying serious, professional characters, often in anti-Nazi war dramas and classic horror films. Frank Reicher's contribution to the entertainment industry left an indelible mark, making him a celebrated figure in cinematic history.
Early Life and Career
Frank Reicher's early life and upbringing are not extensively documented, but he honed his acting skills and received training in Europe before arriving in New York in 1899. He began his acting career on the New York stage, gaining recognition for his talents.
His first major successful role in the film industry came when he transitioned to Hollywood in 1915, where he not only acted but also directed films. Throughout his career, Reicher excelled in portraying serious and professional characters, earning him a reputation as a versatile actor.
While he had numerous notable roles in various films, it was his portrayal of Capt. Englehorn in "King Kong" (1933) and its sequel "Son of Kong" (1933) that catapulted him into stardom. These iconic films became timeless classics, cementing Reicher's place in cinematic history.
Frank Reicher's impact on Hollywood and the entertainment industry lies in his extensive filmography and his ability to portray a wide range of characters, and he is recognized for his performances in anti-Nazi war dramas and classic horror films.While he may not be as widely celebrated as some Hollywood icons, his work remains significant in the history of cinema, and he is remembered for his contributions to the art of acting.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Superman and the Mole-Men | Hospital Superintendent |
| 1951 | The Lady and the Bandit | Count Eckhardt (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | 'Doc' Darius Green |
| 1950 | The Arizona Cowboy | Major Sheridan |
| 1950 | Cargo to Capetown | Judge Van Meeger (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Life of St. Paul Series | Ananias |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah | Village Barber |
| 1949 | Barbary Pirate | Cathcart |
| 1949 | Your Show Time (TV Series) | Unknown |
| 1948 | The Gallant Blade | Major (uncredited) |
| 1948 | I, Jane Doe | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Carson City Raiders | Razor Pool |
| 1948 | Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad | Dr. MacKenzie |
| 1947 | Escape Me Never | The Minister |
| 1947 | Song of Love | Mr. Fuerbach (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Karl Maasdam |
| 1947 | Violence | Pop |
| 1947 | Monsieur Verdoux | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Yankee Fakir | Banker H.W. Randall |
| 1947 | Mr. District Attorney | Peter Lantz (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Home in Oklahoma | Jason Cragmyle |
| 1946 | Sister Kenny | Dr. Chuter (uncredited) |
| 1946 | My Pal Trigger | Judge J.E. Ellis (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Song of Arizona | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Shadow Returns | Michael Hasdon |
| 1946 | A Guy Could Change | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1945 | The Strange Mr. Gregory | Riker - the Butler |
| 1945 | The Tiger Woman | Coroner |
| 1945 | Voice of the Whistler | Dr. Rose (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Rhapsody in Blue | Guest (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Phantoms, Inc. (Short) | Philip Kenneson Sr. (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Blonde Ransom | Judge |
| 1945 | A Medal for Benny | Father Bly (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Hotel Berlin | Fritz (uncredited) |
| 1945 | The Jade Mask | Harper |
| 1944 | The Big Bonanza | Dr. Ballou |
| 1944 | House of Frankenstein | Ullman |
| 1944 | The Conspirators | Casino Attendant (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Gildersleeve's Ghost | Dr. John Wells |
| 1944 | The Mummy's Ghost | Professor Norman |
| 1944 | The Adventures of Mark Twain | Doctor in Elmira (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Hitler Gang | The Justizminister (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Address Unknown | Professor Schmidt |
| 1944 | In Our Time | Baron Jarski (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Captain America | Lyman [Ch. 1] |
| 1943 | Sucker Bait (Short) | Nazi Spy School Student |
| 1943 | The Song of Bernadette | Dr. St. Cyr (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Tornado | Old Man Linden (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine | Admiral (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Bomber's Moon | Dr. Hartman |
| 1943 | Background to Danger | Rudick (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Yanks Ahoy | German (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Above Suspicion | Colonel Gerold (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Mission to Moscow | General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Plan for Destruction (Short) | Karl Ernst Haushofer |
| 1943 | Hangmen Also Die! | Interpreter (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The Purple V | Bit Role (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Thaddeus Quentin |
| 1942 | The Mummy's Tomb | Prof. Norman |
| 1942 | Night Monster | Dr. Timmons |
| 1942 | Divide and Conquer (Short) | French Propagandist (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Secret Enemies | Henry Bremmer |
| 1942 | The Gay Sisters | Dr. Thomas Bigelow |
| 1942 | I Married an Angel | Driver (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Beyond the Blue Horizon | Sneath |
| 1942 | Mystery of Marie Roget | Magistrate |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be | Polish Official (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Fritz |
| 1941 | Dangerously They Live | Jarvis |
| 1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Board Member (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Father Takes a Wife | Captain of the 'SS Leslie C.' (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Underground | PLrof. Baumer |
| 1941 | Shining Victory | Dr. Esterhazy |
| 1941 | The Nurse's Secret | Mr. Henderson |
| 1941 | They Dare Not Love | German Captain (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Flight from Destiny | Edvaard Kreindling |
| 1941 | The Face Behind the Mask | Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Four Mothers | Festival Committee Member (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Sky Murder | Dr. Crattan |
| 1940 | South to Karanga | Dr. Greenleaf |
| 1940 | The Man I Married | Friehof |
| 1940 | The Lady in Question | President |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Police Official (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Typhoon | Doctor |
| 1940 | Dr. Cyclops | Professor Kendall |
| 1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Old Man (uncredited) |
| 1939 | South of the Border | Don Diego Mendoza |
| 1939 | Everything Happens at Night | Pharmacist |
| 1939 | Our Neighbors - The Carters | Dr. Proser |
| 1939 | Ninotchka | Soviet Lawyer (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Sabotage | George Wallner -- Head of Saboteurs (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Escape | Dr. Shumaker |
| 1939 | Rio | Paris Banker (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Nurse Edith Cavell | Baron Von Bissing |
| 1939 | The Magnificent Fraud | Mendietta Garcia |
| 1939 | Unexpected Father | Adoption Hearing Referee (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Sons of Liberty (Short) | Lyons -- Storekeeper (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Juarez | Duc de Morny (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Mystery of the White Room | Dr. Amos Thornton |
| 1939 | Society Smugglers | Jones |
| 1939 | Never Say Die | Man in Charge of Duel (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Woman Doctor | Dr. Mathews |
| 1938 | Devil's Island | President of Assize Court |
| 1938 | The Girl Downstairs | Police Sergeant (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Torchy Gets Her Man | The Professor |
| 1938 | The Storm | Dr. Striker (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Suez | General Changarnier |
| 1938 | Letter of Introduction | Second Doctor - Midtown Hospital (uncredited) |
| 1938 | I'll Give a Million | Prefect of Police |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited) |
| 1938 | City Streets | Dr. Ferenc Waller |
| 1938 | Three Comrades | Major - Young Soldier's Father (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Rascals | Dr. C.M. Garvey |
| 1938 | Prison Nurse | Doctor Hartman |
| 1937 | Prescription for Romance | Jozsef |
| 1937 | Beg, Borrow or Steal | Monsieur Debillon (uncredited) |
| 1937 | 45 Fathers | Prentiss (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Heidi | Police Lieutenant (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy | Admiral |
| 1937 | Stage Door | Stage Director |
| 1937 | Fit for a King | Kurtz |
| 1937 | On Such a Night | Horace Darwin |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | M. Perrenx (uncredited) |
| 1937 | West Bound Limited | Pop Martin |
| 1937 | Midnight Madonna | Vincent Long II |
| 1937 | The Emperor's Candlesticks | Pavloff |
| 1937 | The Devil Is Driving | District Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Road Back | Ernst's Father |
| 1937 | King of Gamblers | Herman (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Night Key | Carl |
| 1937 | Espionage | Von Cram |
| 1937 | Stolen Holiday | Rainer |
| 1937 | The Great O'Malley | Dr. Larson |
| 1937 | Man of the People | Professor Robinson - Geologist (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Mighty Treve | Eben McClelland |
| 1937 | Under Cover of Night | Rudolph Brehmer |
| 1936 | Sinner Take All | Theo Drukker (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Camille | Creditor Agent (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Laughing at Trouble | Dr. Larson |
| 1936 | Along Came Love | Planetarium Lecturer |
| 1936 | Old Hutch | District Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Star for a Night | Doctor Heimkin |
| 1936 | The Gorgeous Hussy | Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Second Wife | Headmaster |
| 1936 | Girls' Dormitory | Dr. Hoffenreich |
| 1936 | The Devil-Doll | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Nobody's Fool | Chairman (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse | Coach Driver to Paris |
| 1936 | Under Two Flags | French General |
| 1936 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | Henry Strand (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Murder on a Bridle Path | Dr. Peters (Gregg's) |
| 1936 | Till We Meet Again | Colonel Von Diegel |
| 1936 | The Country Doctor | Dr. Paul Luke |
| 1936 | Sutter's Gold | Governor Felipe Vega (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Dr. Pfeiffer |
| 1935 | The Lone Wolf Returns | Coleman (scenes deleted) |
| 1935 | Magnificent Obsession | Dr. Rochard (uncredited) |
| 1935 | The Invisible Ray | Professor Meiklejohn (Mendelssohn in end credits) |
| 1935 | The Great Impersonation | Dr. Trenk |
| 1935 | Kind Lady | Gustave Roubet |
| 1935 | The Fighting Marines | Wheeler - M-70 (uncredited) |
| 1935 | The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo | Second Assistant Director |
| 1935 | The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Dr. Coate |
| 1935 | Remember Last Night? | Coroner (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Rendezvous | Dr. R.A. Jackson |
| 1935 | Born to Gamble | Defense Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Charlie Chan in Egypt | Dr. Jaipur |
| 1935 | Star of Midnight | Abe Ohlman (uncredited) |
| 1935 | The Florentine Dagger | Von Stein |
| 1935 | Straight from the Heart | Coroner (uncredited) |
| 1935 | A Dog of Flanders | Herr Vanderkloot |
| 1935 | The Casino Murder Case | Assistant Coroner (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Mills of the Gods | Barrett |
| 1934 | Life Returns | Dr. James |
| 1934 | Secret of the Chateau | Auctioneer |
| 1934 | I Am a Thief | Max Bolen |
| 1934 | The Case of the Howling Dog | Dr. Carl Cooper |
| 1934 | British Agent | Mr. X |
| 1934 | The Fountain | Doctor |
| 1934 | Return of the Terror | Franz Reinhardt |
| 1934 | The World Moves On | Herr Robess (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Little Man, What Now? | Lehmann |
| 1934 | Let's Talk It Over | Richards |
| 1934 | The Line-Up | Abraham Schultz (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Men in White | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Countess of Monte Cristo | Police Commissioner |
| 1934 | No Greater Glory | Doctor |
| 1934 | Journal of a Crime | Herr Winterstein |
| 1934 | Hi, Nellie | Danny |
| 1934 | 8 Girls in a Boat | The Examiner (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Son of Kong | Capt. Englehorn |
| 1933 | Ever in My Heart | Dr. Hoffman (uncredited) |
| 1933 | After Tonight | Major--Medical Officer (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Captured! | Herr Hauptman - the Adjutant |
| 1933 | Before Dawn | Joe Valerie |
| 1933 | Jennie Gerhardt | Old Weaver (uncredited) |
| 1933 | A Bedtime Story | Aristide |
| 1933 | King Kong | Capt. Englehorn |
| 1933 | Topaze | Dr. Stegg |
| 1933 | Employees' Entrance | Garfinkle |
| 1932 | Rasputin and the Empress | German-Language Teacher (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Flesh | Warden in Germany (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Scarlet Dawn | Plotsky (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Crooked Circle | Rankin |
| 1932 | A Woman Commands | The General |
| 1931 | Mata Hari | The Cook-Spy |
| 1931 | Suicide Fleet | Holtzmann |
| 1931 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Arresting Detective (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Beyond Victory | German Military Hospital Chief |
| 1931 | Gentleman's Fate | Papa Francesco Tomasulo |
| 1930 | A Lady's Morals | Italian Theater Manager (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Billy the Kid | General Lew Wallace (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Strictly Unconventional | Duke of Brocklehurst (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau | Der Doktor |
| 1930 | The Grand Parade | Unknown |
| 1929 | Mister Antonio | Milton Jorny |
| 1929 | Her Private Affair | State's Attorney |
| 1929 | Paris Bound | (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Black Waters | Randall |
| 1929 | Strange Cargo | Dr. Stecker |
| 1929 | His Captive Woman | District Attorney |
| 1928 | Sins of the Fathers | The Eye Specialist |
| 1928 | Someone to Love | Simmons |
| 1928 | Napoleon's Barber (Short) | Napoleon's Barber |
| 1928 | The Masks of the Devil | Count Zellner |
| 1928 | The Blue Danube | Baron von Statzen |
| 1928 | Four Sons | The Schoolmaster |
| 1928 | Beau Sabreur | Gen. de Beaujolais |
| 1926 | Her Man o' War | Prof. Krantz |
| 1921 | Wise Husbands | Unknown |
| 1915 | The Case of Becky | One of Dr. Emerson's Patients (uncredited) |
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