
Acting
Born December 2, 1875 · Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
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.

We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931

Mister Antonio
1929

Behind Masks
1921

Idle Hands
1921

The Black Circle
1919

The Battler
1919

The Trap
1919

The American Way
1919

Suspense
1919
The Sea Waif
1918
The Prodigal Wife
1918

The Only Road
1918

An American Widow
1917

The Eternal Mother
1917

The Trouble Buster
1917

The Inner Shrine
1917

Unconquered
1917

Castles for Two
1917

The Sacrifice
1917

The Black Wolf
1917

Lost and Won
1917

Betty to the Rescue
1917

Witchcraft
1916

The Storm
1916

Alien Souls
1916

The Love Mask
1916

The Sowers
1916

For the Defense
1916
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915

The Secret Sin
1915

The Chorus Lady
1915

The Case of Becky
1915

The Secret Orchard
1915

The Clue
1915

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies
2021

Superman and the Mole Men
1951

The Lady and the Bandit
1951

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950

Samson and Delilah
1949

Barbary Pirate
1949

The Gallant Blade
1948

I, Jane Doe
1948

Carson City Raiders
1948

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948

Escape Me Never
1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947

Monsieur Verdoux
1947

Violence
1947

Yankee Fakir
1947

Home in Oklahoma
1946

Sister Kenny
1946

The Shadow Returns
1946

A Guy Could Change
1946

The Tiger Woman
1945

Voice of the Whistler
1945

Phantoms, Inc.
1945

A Medal for Benny
1945

The Jade Mask
1945

The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945

The Big Bonanza
1944

House of Frankenstein
1944

The Conspirators
1944

The Mummy's Ghost
1944